Late Ghibli Director Isao Takahata’s Unproduced Scripts Found at Home – News

Japan Broadcasting Corporation Reports on Tuesday said about 130 pages of scripts and notes were found among unproduced works. late director Isao TakahataI went home in early June this year. Seiji Kano, professor and director of the research institute at Tokyo University of Science and Technology Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki Movie, file checked.

Japan Broadcasting CorporationAccording to reports, these documents were written on paper by an animation company that Isao Takahata joined after graduating from college in his 20s. Although no names are mentioned in the book Japan Broadcasting Corporation According to reports, Takahata initially worked at toei animation (Now toei animation) after graduating from college.

Among the drafts was a script called “Oeyama” (大江山), based on the Japanese myth of killing ghosts. Shuten Dojiwhich included a note that Takahata did not want to show the demon being killed and that the depiction of the demon would be “somewhat comical”.

Another script “Moratta Hoseki” (Gem of Genius) is apparently based on Miyazawa KenjiIn the children’s story “Flint”, a fox tricks a rabbit into doing something wrong, and the rabbit loses his sight as punishment. In Takahata’s notes, he depicts the rabbit realizing his mistake and chasing away the fox.

Takahata’s notes also contain ideas for a prequel The Story of Princess Kaguya (itself based on The story of the bamboo knife Japanese folktales).

Takahata passed away on April 5, 2018.

Takahata joins toei animation (Now toei animation) After graduating from the school in 1959 University of Tokyo in French literature. His directorial debut was in confident TV animation, he directed his first feature film, Horus – Prince of the Sun1968.

Takahata directed the following classics during his long career: The brave little prince of Norway (Tiyo not I’d – Hols no Dakeen), Alpine girl Heidi, anne of green gablesand Panda! Let’s go, Panda! before he co-founded Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki. Isao Takahata continues to create feature films Grave of the Fireflies, only yesterday, Pompocoand My neighbor Yamada-kun. He also served as a film producer for Hayao Miyazaki and Ghibli Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Laputa: City in the Skyand is an art producer wild pack And Ghibli’s loggerhead sea turtle.

Isao Takahata’s last film as director was The Story of Princess Kaguyawhich debuted in 2013.

Source: Japan Broadcasting Corporation, animation magazine