An hour-long conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki which took place in Kurosawa's home near Mt. Fuji.

Chris Marker's elliptical, oblique documentary on the making of Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" is an uneasy blend of hagiography (usual Cahiers du Cinema stuff) and Marker's trademark meditations on the mediating role of technology in memory and the human experience, plus probably aging, and etc., etc., etc. These Gallicisms seem out-of-place; but the philosophies are easily discarded. What makes the film a pleasure are the glimpses we see of Kurosawa's work processes, in addition to all the detail and work that goes into the making of a true epic.

Introduction A documentary with a new approach to Kurosawa through the testimonies of 11 world-famous filmmakers. A demonstration of the universal achievement he left in the history of world movie. pagetop Director Catherine Cadou French-English-Japanese interpreter and translator. Specialized in the interpretation of japanese filmmakers since her first work assignment with Akira Kurosawa during the Cannes Film Festival 1980. Catherine Cadou is also the author of the French subtitles for more than 200 Japanese feature movies. In 2005, she directed a self-financed documentary about the life at Kiba, in Tokyo: Kiba Tokyo Micropole. Staff Director : Catherine Cadou Editor : Cédric Defert Producer : Michiko Yoshitake Cast Bernardo Bertolucci Julie Taymor Théo Angelopoulos Alejandro Gonzàles Iñárritu Abbas Kiarostami Shinya Tsukamoto Hayao Miyazaki John Woo Martin Scorsese Clint Eastwood Bong Joon-Ho

日本动画传奇宫崎骏忽然在3年前宣布退休，并关闭了吉卜力工作室。他说，再也不想做动画电影。在鼎盛时期，吉卜力工作室制作了许多杰作，构建了扣人心弦的幻想世界。这一次，所有人都觉得，一切都结束了。而事实上，始终坚持手绘的宫崎骏借助计算机技术，制作了一部12分钟的电影短片，还正筹备制作一部新的动画电影。已经七十多岁的宫崎骏除了面临接班人难寻的困境，还不得不接受昔日老友和同事接连离世的悲伤……

让宫崎骏因《男孩与苍鹭》参加国际电影节被证明是困难的，但这位吉卜力创始人今年可以通过一部不为人知的纪录片在巡回演出中亮相。 去年年底，日本广播公司 NHK 首次播出了这部纪录片的国际版，讲述了吉卜力最新热门作品的制作过程，以及这位标志性但不愿接受媒体采访的公司创始人今年可能会去参加一个电影节或电影市场。

For over 50 years, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting the world with his films. Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke), Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away), or his latest film Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron), to name only a few of eleven feature films, ten short films, several manga, and also through Studio Ghibli, a museum and a theme park. They form a luminous body of work and characters that have become cult classics. Miyazaki’s films, often autobiographical, also reflect the state of the world and the turmoil of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, made of wars and ecological disasters. He was born in Japan in 1941, during World War II. As a child, he immersed himself in drawing manga until he had a revelation upon discovering Hakuja den (The White Snake Enchantress), the first Japanese colour animated film by Taiji Yabushita. From then on, he decided to devote his life to animation, this magical art capable of overcoming the darkness that had always deeply inhabited him... Thanks to exceptional access granted by Studio Ghibli to numerous film excerpts and rare Japanese television archives, we discover the life of Miyazaki as well as a profoundly ecological body of work that questions our relationship with the natural world and living beings. Thinkers like anthropologist Philippe Descola or philosopher Timothy Morton, as well as close associates, his son and film director Gorō Miyazaki, and Toshio Suzuki, his longtime producer and friend, bring us closer to this tireless, obsessive, and mysterious artist.

铃木敏夫接受媒体采访，提到宫崎骏正在构思下一个项目。 宫崎骏的儿子宫崎吾朗在接受媒体采访时也提到，宫崎骏在为下一部作品做准备，将是一部怀旧冒险风格的作品。

该纪录片由东宝策划，以采访和片场录像等构成，记录了黑泽明在东宝执导的21部电影之制作过程，从准备阶段到经过摄影、剪辑到公映为止的轨迹得到了完整的重现。全剧共21集，分别对应21部电影，收录于东宝在日本分三套发售的“黒澤明 THE MASTERWORKS DVD BOXSET”。