Last week, an NHK documentary chronicling Hayao Miyazaki¡¯s retirement and un-retirement, ¡°Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki¡± opened in select theaters across the United States. The same day on the other side of the world, his 1988 classic ¡°My Neighbor Totoro¡± was released for the first time in theaters across China ¡ª 6,000 of them.
Next month, Miyazaki will receive the Los Angeles Film Critics Association¡¯s Career Achievement Award. In 2019, also in LA, the largest-ever exhibition of his work will inaugurate the prestigious Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Meanwhile, in Japan, Tokyo¡¯s Shinbashi Enbujo Theater will stage a kabuki version of ¡°Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,¡± Miyazaki¡¯s 1984 sci-fi epic. And 2020 (or soon after) will see the premiere of ¡°How Do You Live?,¡± his 12th feature film, followed by the opening of a Studio Ghibli theme park near Nagoya.
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