Answer: a. false, b. true, c. true.
Today's poster elements come from Takahata's last directorial work, The Tale of Hui Ye Hime, which earned him nominations for both an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and an Annie Award for Best Director. With just a few strokes, the image of a lively and cute girl jumped on the paper. When watching this work, it is easy to think of Chinese ink animation, although the creation tools are different, but the blank space in the picture always has a sense of intimacy, it is said that he likes "Little Tadpole Finds Mother".
The name Takahata, compared to Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai, which has been very popular in China in the past two years, may be a little strange to some Chinese audiences, but if there is no Takahata, there may not be Miyazaki or even Hisaishi. Born on October 29, 1935, Takahata graduated from the Faculty of French Literature at the University of Tokyo and joined Toei Animation in 1959. The reason for working in this industry is not that he likes to draw, he has not even studied painting specifically. While in school, he saw the French film The King and the Birds and became interested in animation.
Although his specialty is not painting, his french literary background makes him very sensitive to words, and he can use the most accurate words to depict the pictures and emotions he wants to present. Later, he was also able to draw some storyboards by himself, although it looked slightly rough, but with a lot of detailed text description, this way of creating was not too hindered.
At work, he met a newcomer, Hayao Miyazaki, a few years younger than himself, and invited him to his team. The two then left Toei Animation to co-found the famous Ghibli animation studio. Here, Takahata directed the famous anti-war animation "Grave of the Fireflies", and after a certain period of time, Takahata and Miyazaki slowly changed from cooperation to competition due to differences in creative ideas. Takahata is good at using animation to express realist ideas, and his characters and scenes are simple and lifelike, always making people feel a sense of substitution in reality. Miyazaki is good at fantasy-rich works, and the scenes and characters that will appear in dreams are realized by him little by little.
Coupled with the fact that Takahata is a chronic child and Miyazaki is an acute child, these make the relationship between the two good and bad. But Zhiyin does not always resonate all the time, and although the two have differences in creation, the friendship that lasts for decades is indelible. At Takahata's funeral, Miyazaki burst into tears as he delivered his speech, saddened by the death of his deceased friend. Love and kill each other, influence each other, and the "fairy fight" caused by competition has made the best works in the Japanese animation industry for decades frequent.
In addition to Miyazaki, Hisaishi also regarded Takahata as a benefactor, and when he was a fledgling, he was introduced by Takahata to soundtrack Miyazaki's works, thus making a splash, and for a long time afterwards, "Miyazaki + Hisaishi Jean" was synonymous with masterpieces. "Valley of the Wind", "Castle in the Sky", "Spirited Away"... The masterpiece is accompanied by a fascinating soundtrack that makes the audience unforgettable for a long time.
Written by Wu Longzhen
Proofreading Liu Baoqing