When we think of Japanese cartoons, we may often think of Hayao Miyazaki.
Today, I would like to introduce you to another very gentle animation director, Takada Xun.
Takahata was the central figure of Ghibli. Yoshiaki Nishimura, producer of The Tale of Yukihime, said: "Without Takahata, there would be no Studio Ghibli. All of Ghibli were brought out by Takahata. It was he who discovered Miyazaki, and it was he who taught Toshio Suzuki how to be a producer. ”
Takahata also unearthed Hisaishi Jean, who became an icon of Japanese film music when he used Hisaishi to score Hayao Miyazaki's Valley of the Wind.
That's him:
His main directing credits are as follows:
Hui Ye Ji Monogatari 2013 Douban score 8.3
My neighbor Jun Yamada 1999 Douban score 8.7
Changeable Tanuki Cat 1994 Douban score 8.3
The Fairy Tale of the Years 1991 Douban score 8.5
Tomb of the Fireflies 1988 Douban score 8.8
The Story of the Nuchuan Canal 1987 Douban score 8.0
Little Trouble Chie Theater Edition 1981 Douban score 8.1
Three Thousand Miles to Find Mother 1976 Douban score 8.4
Girls of the Alps 1974 Douban score 9.3
I like his work "The Ever-Changing Tanuki Cat", the cute image of the tanuki cat is not even inferior to the totoro.
This work tells the story of a group of tanuki cats fighting against humans in order to protect their own homeland. The small details are very cute and evocative.
The overall work of director Takada is more concerned with reality and detail. For example, "My Neighbor Yamada Jun", in the simple and simple lines, outline a very cute family. It felt very rustic and gentle, like the wind of early summer.
Really gentle, right?
In fact, the painting is like its own person.
Another of his works, The Tale of Hui Ye Ji, was finally completed by the director in 14 years.
So Miyazaki said of his old partner: "This man is too lazy, lazy and slow like some kind of giant creature on the Upper Neolise continent 5 million years ago." But in fact, it is not lazy, after all, watercolor, the medium of animation production, once it is to be changed, it must be overturned and restarted. Takada said: "The animation is changed. ”
It's not surprising that it's slow.
This work was not introduced to China. But the word of mouth is very good, and it has been named "the best animated feature film of the year" by a hundred online film critics. The style of this film follows "My Neighbor Yamada Jun", Takada Xun uses watercolor as an unconventional animation medium, and the painting style is not gorgeous at all, as if in the hastily painted pictures, the feelings are very rich.
"Birds, Bugs and Beasts, Grass and Flowers" – The Tale of Hui Ye Ji
And Takada hoon is also concerned about the two themes of "life" and "life" as always.
If you feel that life is dull and boring, go to his works, you may find a different life.