Famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, 72, has announced his intention to retire from filmmaking. Miyazaki, together with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1895, the studio has two projects currently in the works an no intentions of closing their doors. Nor are they likely to, each project takes at a minimum of 5 years and can go up to 7 years to complete. Miyazaki’s reasons for retirement include a hesitation to commit to a project that could go into his 80s.
That sounds like a very good reason to retire! Though fans are still unsure how to take this retirement since Miyazaki has been in a perma-state of semi-ritirement since the completion of his film ‘Princess Mononoke’ in ’97. In a recent press conference he has said:
