Their reach would extend far beyond Japan: Studio Ghibli influenced animators and live-action filmmakers around the world.
Their reach would extend far beyond Japan: Studio Ghibli influenced animators and live-action filmmakers around the world. The work by Miyazaki, Takahata, and their team can be seen in the films of people as different as Guillermo del Toro, a vocal fan who blends fantasy and reality in his works and recently introduced Miyazaki’s latest film The Boy and the Heron at TIFF, and Wes Anderson, who praised Miyazaki when talking about Isle of Dogs: “With Miyazaki, you get nature and you get moments of peace, a kind of rhythm that is not in the American animation tradition so much.”