• commiespammer
    11·
    2 years ago

    I like Hayao Miyazaki’s work. Practically everyone in China has seen some of it.

    • Shrike502
      4·
      2 years ago

      Didn’t he make a movie about that engineer who made warplanes for Imperial Japan during the war? I haven’t seen it, mind you, but it seems like a strange move, given the apparent anti-war message in at least some of his other works

      • straightpeach@lemmy.ml
        81·
        2 years ago

        Yes, but he also seems to have an obsession with old airplanes in general. He cofounded studio ghibli, which is the name of an italian airplane that was at least partially shown in his other movie “porco rosso”. The movie you are talking about, “the wind rises” has some anti-war sentiment, specially in the dream sequences, when the protagonist struggles to justify his line of work knowing the impacts of it.

  • MexicanCCPBot
    3·
    2 years ago

    Hayao Miyazaki when young was a Marxist, a member of the JCP, and (correct me if I’m wrong) successfully organized a strike at Toei Animation which led to them unionizing (an absolute rarity in the anime industry). However, the USSR’s collapse fucked him up so much that he lost faith in Marxism altogether. His only hope was that his movies would still help change the world by shaping the next generation, but since that didn’t happen he went full doomer as time went on.