Hayao Miyazaki’s Red Roots
Studio Ghibli is not the Japanese Disney but the anti-Disney. Dreamed up by animators with roots in the Japanese communist movement, its films celebrate creative labor and human solidarity against capitalism and war.
(Hayao Miyazaki Catalogue / Ingram Books)
The roots of one of the most successful animation studios of the last few decades lie in the trade union at Toei Doga, the animation department of one of Japan’s largest film corporations. In the mid-1960s, working conditions in the industry were brutal, with teams of animators churning out hundreds of drawings daily for TV […]
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