Studio Ghibli Lets You Download Free Images from Hayao Miyazaki’s “Final” Film, The Boy and the Heron

Stu­dio Ghi­b­li followers are nonetheless pon­der­ing the imply­ing of Hayao Miyaza­ok­i’s The Boy and the Heron, which got here out final yr. Although by some mea­positive the stu­dio’s most lav­ish fea­ture but — not least by the mea­positive of it being probably the most expen­sive movie but professional­duced in Japan — it’s additionally the one least amenable to sim­ple inter­pre­ta­tion. Much more so than in his pre­vi­ous work, Miyaza­ki appears to have intend­ed to make a film much less to be defined than to be expe­ri­enced. Simply because the tit­u­lar younger professional­tag­o­nist descends right into a weird however cap­ti­vat­ing below­world and returns, modified, to actual­i­ty, so does the view­er.

Should you’ve seen The Boy and the Heron, hear­ing its very title (which in Japan is 君たちはどう生きるか, or How Do You Reside?) will deliver again to thoughts a bunch of vivid photos: the rov­ing again of bul­bous-fea­tured grannies obsessive about non-per­ish­in a position meals­stuffs; the pos­tur­ing of the mid­dle-age Hen­man, stuffed into his avian flight swimsuit; the pyrotech­nic feats of the younger Woman Himi; and above all, per­haps, the float­ing cas­cades of Warawara, these adorably spherical spir­its who — in painstak­ing Ghi­b­li fash­ion — seem to have been ani­mat­ed indi­vid­u­al­ly, every with its personal per­son­al­i­ty. Now, you’ll be able to down­load stills from these and oth­er scenes at Stu­dio Ghi­b­li’s offi­cial website.

These come as an expan­sion to Ghi­b­li’s exist­ing col­lec­tion, pre­vi­ous­ly fea­tured right here on Open Cul­ture, of free-to-down­load photos from their library of titles. They’re supplied, the positioning explains, “sole­ly for per­son­al use by indi­vid­ual followers to fur­ther take pleasure in Stu­dio Ghi­b­li movies.” And certainly, they might don’t have any impact stronger than mak­ing you need to watch The Boy and the Heron once more, the extra deeply to really feel what Miyaza­ki intend­ed together with his “closing” pic­ture. Not that the lat­est of his retire­ments has caught: final fall, Ghi­b­li pres­i­dent Toshio Suzu­ki report­ed that the octo­ge­nar­i­an Miyaza­ki was again within the workplace, plan­ning his subsequent movie. If he has extra realms but to discover, ani­ma­tion-lovers world wide will positive­ly fol­low him. Discover the photographs from The Boy and the Heron right here.

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Stu­dio Ghi­b­li Makes 1,178 Photographs Free to Down­load from My Neigh­bor Totoro, Spir­it­ed Away & Oth­er Beloved Ani­mat­ed Movies