He said he wanted to do another film, so we had to get our employees back.
“Studio Ghibli had always been the studio that would create films for Hayao Miyazaki, so when he retired, it made sense that we stopped and shut down the studio,” Suzuki said. “However, as you know, Hayao Miyazaki came back. He said he wanted to do another film, so we had to get our employees back. What we decided was that this time, with his new hand-drawn animation film, we are going to approach it with smaller numbers of animators over a longer-term period.”