![]() ![]() "If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. It is his fate to find himself hailed as the greatest practitioner of hand-drawn cell animation (perhaps the greatest there has ever been) at a time when the art form appears to be headed the way of the dodo. Miyazaki, for all his fame and acclaim, could soon be following them. "Now they are gone."Īnd here's the thing. Many people of my generation see the miners as a symbol a dying breed of fighting men." He shrugs. "I admired the way they battled to save their way of life, just as the coal miners in Japan did. ![]() "I admired those men," he says, sitting in the sun as the photographers melt away. He was first there in 1984, witnessed the miners' strike at first hand and farmed the whole harrowing experience into his 1986 animation Laputa: Castle in the Sky. It's based on a children's book by Welsh author Diana Wynne Jones Miyazaki has visited Wales several times and has a deep affection for the place. Miyazaki's latest film, Howl's Moving Castle, plays out in a valley kingdom inhabited by wizards, fire demons and undulating shadow monsters in natty straw boaters. ![]()
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