Ghibli Plans 2 Films, In The Next 3 Years

Now that he's done bashing Japan's prime-minister Taro Aso, veteran director Hayao Miyazaki is... nope, still not retiring. The old man's latest apparition of some mediatic interest took place at the end of November, when he gave a speech to the production staff at Studio Ghibli. A speech that was curiously titled "How Do We (Ghibli) Get over the Severe World", though presumably without focusing too much on the current world economic crisis (that would've been a major waste of time).



The topic at hand, from what Nausicaa.net reports, was Ghibli's future animation projects. Over the next 3 years, Miyazaki said the studio will begin 2 new feature-length anime films "by young staff members". But whether that means young directors, or just young animators, is not quite clear yet.

Judging by earlier newsbits and interviews, it would appear that Ghibli staffer Kishimoto (nicknamed Nayo) is working with studio co-founder Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday) on one of the studio's upcoming films.

Also, old Miyazaki's much-criticized son, Goro Miyazaki is also said to be cooking up something. Hopefully something better than his last directoral work on Tales from Earthsea (Ged Senki), for which he was named "worst director of 2006". Too bad for wasting such a superb OST on that movie (Aoi Teshima for the win).