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167: Hayao Miyazaki’s confusing new masterpiece

Deep Dive from The Japan Times

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The Secret Sauce of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli

Miyazaki was miffed that people were attributing the success of those films to Toshio Suzuki's promotional techniques. Studio Ghibli is in a really unique financial position where they can go take seven years to make a movie and not have sponsors saying, hey, when's it coming out? "I'm not sure there's ever going to be a combination exactly like that," Miyazaki says.

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