I like Hayao Miyazaki’s work. Practically everyone in China has seen some of it.
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
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I owe so much Junji Ito
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.
