The Japanese cult director Hayao Miyazaki has held a press conference in Tokyo today to speak a little more about his recently announced retirement from the scene.
Miyazaki today said:
“I would like to work for at least 10 more years, but I think that making feature films is no longer my job. I’m going to be free. At the same time, as long as I can drive my car to the studio, I’ll go. If there are things I want to do, then I will”.
Miyazaki’s retirement so seems to concetn only the “directing” side of his job, but he doesn’t want to leave the studio and he will likely remain as a consultant for Ghibli. Speaking of The Wind Rises, Miyazaki’s last movie, he said the film took 5 years to make:
“… So a new film would take six or seven years. I’m going to be 73 years old and I would be 80 by the end”.
We can understand that Miyazaki probably chooses to retire due to its age, because he is now 73 and the movies he makes are simply too long to create.
