107 Studio Ghibli Facts You Should Know | Channel Frederator

[Music] behind every great movie is a great studio and behind every great studio is a visionary studio ghibli is actually behind several great movies and their most well known creative mastermind is Hayao Miyazaki but he's not the only driving force hey everyone I'm Adrian with Channel Frederator and if you've never heard of the groundbreaking Studio Ghibli just imagine a Japanese Disney or Pixar kinda we've already done one of seven fact videos of some of their films my neighbor totoro Princess Mononoke and spirited away so if you want to learn more definitely check out those videos too but today we're looking at the studio itself the struggles of the three passionate co-founders to create art their way and the rewards they reaped including multiple awards and a museum so grab your animator hat as we count down 107 facts about Studio Ghibli let's get started [Music] fact number one pseudo Ghibli Inc is an award-winning animated film studio based in Koganei Tokyo in Japan which was founded in 1985 number two the studio was founded by animators Hayao Miyazaki and Esau Chaka Fattah and producer Toshio Suzuki remember those names because they're all important many of the themes and practices employed in studio ghibli's movies come from the personal experiences of these three particularly miyazaki number three they produce twenty films since their founding beginning with Lapita castle in the sky in 1986 and most recently when Marnie was there in 2014 there was Nausicaa - but that was before they were officially founded number four Ghibli comes from humble origins the original Studio Ghibli office was located on the first floor of a house in the suburbs of Tokyo number five in the beginning nobody expected Studio Ghibli to last very long much less 30 years they approached each film with a mindset of if this exceeds will make another one if this flops we outnumber six CDO Ghibli is primarily focused on creating movies for its Japanese audience international releases are the gravy on top of the animation potatoes number seven while Studio Ghibli is a very Japan centric company there are definitely foreigners in the office especially Italians number eight pseudo Ghibli has a strict no alterations policy when it comes to the distribution of their movies this is a result of what happened in their very first film together Nausicaa of the valley of the wind which was torn apart for the american release and retitled warriors of the wind in fact Sookie's official stance in the matter is let's not talk about that version ok number 9 here's how serious Ghibli is about that zero alterations policy during negotiations for Princess Mononoke Suzuki sent American producer Harvey Weinstein a samurai sword with a note that read no cuts but wait isn't a samurai sword spork honey number 10 the former chief executive officer of Ghibli Toru Hara said that Ghibli ran using the three H's high cost high risk and high return in other words anything good takes a lot of work and a lot of luck number 11 the name Ghibli is actually a word used by Italian pilots that refers to a hot wind blowing through the Sahara Desert it's also the name of an aircraft the caproni CA 3:09 Ghibli Miyazaki took his name for the studio because he wanted to blow a sensational wind into the Japanese world of animation that he did number 12 the original word Ghibli is pronounced with a hard G instead of a soft G used by studio supposedly this was Miyazaki's pronunciation error and it just stuck I mean if you romanized the katakana and the studio's title cards it would read out G booty orgy booty number 13 Miyazaki's father ran a company that manufactured fighter plane tail fins during World War 2 Heil became entranced by the process and the way all the parts connected leading to his love of planes number 14 Miyazaki's mother on the other hand contracted spinal tuberculosis and was bedridden for nine years between 1947 and 1955 Hayao drew on this experience when creating my neighbor totoro which includes a mother with a long-term illness number 15 since he was a boy Miyazaki idolized manga ko Osamu Tezuka who inspired him to become a monk Kukai himself however Miyazaki's view of Tezuka became sour after Miyazaki realized that Tezuka's manga were just versions of Tezuka himself Miyazaki actually burned all of his own sketches when he realized they started to look like tezuka's work number 16 Miyazaki is also a fan of the Fleischer brothers who are best known for Betty Boop Popeye the Sailor and the O G's Superman cartoon he paid tribute to them in Porco Rosso with a movie Porco is watching number 17 the first animation Miyazaki saw was Haku shed then or the great white snake in 1958 he was instantly captivated and that was when he first got into animation number 18 when he first started drawing Miyazaki didn't know how to draw people he only drew planes and battleships but he was aware that drawing people was essential to break into the field so he started studying the human form number 19 nowadays Miyazaki is a professional people watcher in public he observes people's quirks and mannerisms and later applies them to his work as a result Suzy ki jokes that none of Miyazaki's work is original it's all based on his observations number 20 Miyazaki became famous for animation but he actually has a degree from gakushin University in economics and political science and his final thesis was on Japanese industry he's a scholar and an animator number 21 he was also a member of the children's literature research club at school which was apparently the closest thing his school had to the comics or manga club number 22 after graduating Miyazaki began work at Toei animations after a few months of training he was put into his first movie ever watchdog Bow Wow number 23 let's shift gears for a second Studio Ghibli co-founder Esau taka hata began his career looking to be a director not an animator he graduated from Tokyo University which was the most prestigious school in Japan and immediately started working a toy animations which was still a new studio in 1959 number 24 in 1965 Miyazaki and Takahata both working a toy teamed up to work on the prints of the Sun which sort of makes it a proto Ghibli film feeling like this would be their last feature film project before TV took over they swore to put everything they had into the production number 25 their hard work paid off and the prints of the Sun was a massive hit is what you'd think would come next but no it was actually a flop and Takahata was even demoted because of its failure fortunately this did not break up the music he talked about the partnership and they went on to work on projects like loop on the third and pantego panda together number 26 during their time at toy animation Takahata and Miyazaki were already making history one series called Haiti was animated by Miyazaki and directed by Takahata and went on to be a landmark show in the East drawing Japanese tourists to see the Swiss Alps number 27 Takahata and Miyazaki came to realize that the limitations of time and budget in television were too much to make everything worthwhile they wanted to make something that had an impact and really emotionally delivered this was what first inspired them to move away from TV and make their own movie the first unofficial Studio Ghibli movie Nausicaa of the valley of the wind number 28 Miyazaki and takahata's first pictures is talking about publishing in 1981 where four Sengoku period piece called warring States demon Castle it was an adaptation of Corbin's Rolf number 29 both were shot down because distributors only wanted to make properties based on existing manga so in 1982 Miyazaki launched a Nausicaa manga and animation magazine very clever number 30 at the time Miyazaki made an agreement with animation magazine that he would not turn now succumb into a movie um yeah so about that number 31 when toki mo publishing finally approached miyazaki about turning Nausicaa into a movie Miyazaki had one condition his good pal Takahata had to produce it and produce it he did number 32 now to introduce the third pillar of Ghibli Toshio Suzuki he was the editor in chief at animation magazine owned by tokuma publishing Suzy key became part of the production team working on Nausicaa number 33 while fundraising for Nausicaa Suzuki was still fairly inexperienced he assumed that they needed about three times more money than they actually did which hay is better than three times too little number 34 Nausicaa of the valley of the wind ended up doing well at the box office and was critically praised as well as a result of his success tokuma shoten publishing helped kick starts video Ghibli number 3 five even after completing the Nausicaa movie Miyazaki still continued the Nausicaa manga all the way until 1994 number 36 CEO Ghibli has a number of themes that have become production staples for them the one closest to me sakis heart flying scenes and planes you now know about Miyazaki's background with flying machines and he made sure to remind you of it in nearly every movie he has his hands on number 37 according to Miyazaki the idea that evil is a singular destructible force is misguided especially in life in politics there for a trademark quality of his movies is the Shades of Grey in which he paints his story lines and characters everyone's a bit good and a bit bad number 38 Studio Ghibli movies are also known for their leading female roles Miyazaki's main explanation for this is that women have a deeper way of dealing with problems than just kill the bad guy which serves Miyazaki style not really having bad guys he also says that men tend to deal with things through words whereas women deal with things through feelings number 39 when asked if there would be a female director Ghibli the producer of when Marnie was there Yoshiaki Nisha Bora said that from a directing standpoint women tend to be more realistic and men tend to be more idealistic he later apologized for that comment since it came off as saying women can't direct animation which is a bit contrary to the morals shown in their movies number 40 Miyazaki films typically show things the way he wishes they were rather than the way things actually are he believes it's important to show positivity and hope even when discussing serious and dark subject matters number 41 his manga though is totally different Sasso note deals with all the dark and sinful parts of humanity like greed violence hatred you know all the dark stuff number 42 before we make it seem like all of Miyazaki's motives are poetic and complex let me tell you this one pigs miyazaki movies have pigs galore Miyazaki often draws himself as a pig and in za so note many of the characters are pigs too number 43 the Ghibli film Porco Rosso which is italian for crimson pig is actually based on the za so Note manga number 44 anyway back to the history after Nausicaa toka ma publishing one in another animated movie preferably a Nausicaa sequel Miyazaki and Takahata went to Yan Ogawa for inspiration and ended up creating an almost live-action documentary about the town which was filled with historical canals it was fittingly called you guessed it the story of Yan Ogawa canals and that's how a major-league animation studio created a live-action documentary number 45 by 1986 Studio we had formed and released their first official film Laputa castle in the sky it was another one written and directed by Miyazaki number 46 Miyazaki got the word laputa from the lapa tons of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift who had their heads in the clouds what Miyazaki didn't realize though and I apologize for my Spanish is that Laputa actually translates the horror in Spanish which is why the word was dropped in spanish-speaking countries number 47 in these days of the company they aim to keep the budget low by hiring just 70 people to work on a film and then dismissing them all at once when it finished this is a standard practice in the industry but not the usual system that Ghibli is known for number 48 castle in the sky did well but not quite as well as Nazca while NASA kadru in over 900 thousand viewers castle in the sky got over 700 thousand seats filled number 49 the next Ghibli project on the slate was My Neighbor Totoro however Miyazaki was reluctant to pick the project up because 10 years earlier the original pitch for the movie got rejected distributors weren't interested in 1950s Japan they wanted another NASA kotor castle in the sky number 50 simultaneously Sousa came made a deal with another distributor to do another movie based off the book grave of the fireflies he knew while Miyazaki did Totoro Takahata could do fireflies and they beat out two movies at the same time number 51 there's a notorious quote from Studio Ghibli history producer Tatsuya Mazda was getting increasingly frustrated with Studio Ghibli movie choices when he heard that on top of Totoro they were picking up great with the fireflies too he exclaimed as if ghosts weren't enough you want a grave as well number 52 according to Sousa key from a producer standpoint the idea of teaming up Totoro with fireflies was like teaming up et and forbidden games wouldn't that be a pretty cool double feature number 53 producing My Neighbor Totoro and grave of the fireflies at the exact same time was utter chaos for the studio because they refused to let the quality of either film be diminished it was basically a suicide mission but the company knew that this was their chance of making it big number 50 for their hard work paid off in the movies where a massive hit is what you think would come next but no ultimately neither Totoro nor grave of the fireflies actually made it big in theaters because their long production times caused them to miss the big summer blockbuster season however the films were critically acclaimed which puts Studio Ghibli on the map for further releases money isn't everything you know number 55 just kidding money is great nearly two years after the really of Totoro a toy manufacturer contacted Ghibli about turning Totoro into a stuffed animal they agreed and thanks to this move they made Bank on the doll sales covering the loss in production costs after that they promptly set up a merchandising department so the next time they'd identify marketing potential two years sooner number 56 not only did Totoro become a stuffed animal he became the company mascot to talk about an overnight success number 57 after the fireflies Totoro Fiasco Ghibli began to focus on just one film at a time this way they avoid the madness of having multiple open productions but it also causes them to sometimes go long periods of time without work after finishing a big movie number 58 following grave of the fireflies Takahata directed only yesterday pom Poko and my neighbor's the Yamada's and also served as a music director of kiki and the producer i can hear the sea busy man number 59 there's a clear contrast between takahata's movies and Miyazaki's movies takahata's are more realistic and sometimes experimental whereas Miyazaki's have become increasingly fantastical number 60 in 1989 Studio Ghibli made Kiki's Delivery Service based off the novel by a Coco Dona Miyazaki adapted the script making some changes to the source material to fit the Ghibli molt number 61 the original plan was for Miyazaki to just produce the movie and leave the development to the studios younger staff members but Miyazaki was unhappy with the script they penned so he took it over which intimidated the director who then backed out transforming the project into another Miyazaki film number 62 unfortunately miss Kaduna wasn't thrilled with the Ghibli fication of her novel the original book is a fun collection of Kiki's encounters whereas Miyazaki turned it into a more dramatic coming-of-age story the project was almost scratched until Miyazaki and Suzuki invited her to the studio and convinced her to give her blessing number 63 Kiki's Delivery Service became Ghibli s first big box-office hit and was the number one film in Japan in 1989 with 2 point 64 million tickets sold good thing miss Kay dono gave her blessing number 64 prior to Kiki Suzuki wasn't worried about Fame so long as Studio Ghibli enjoyed their creations however when a distributor implied that Miyazaki would leave the company after Kiki Suzuki immediately contacted an TV a TV station for funding so they could make another hit number 65 Miyazaki and Suzy ki would often go traveling to celebrate the completion of a film they've been to Ireland England and Italy among other places when they'd returned to the studio for the next project Miyazaki would have incorporated the landscapes they've seen in the film number 66 the first foreign country that Miyazaki visited was Sweden it was back when he was trying to get the rights to make a Pippi longstockings movie though he didn't secure the rights he loved the landscapes he saw and later incorporated them into Kiki number 67 Suzuki says that the reason he and Miyazaki have remained friends for so long for decades to be precise is because they never dwell on the past they only discussed the present or the future in fact they didn't even realize it was Ghibli 20th anniversary when it came up number 68 in South Dakota used to lead an animation school in Studio Ghibli where junior staff members would learn about the arts of directing and animation however they found that great filmmakers do not necessarily make great teachers number 69 Ghibli animators used to make half the average salary in Japan this is because industry standards are two papers pieces drawn which among a large team is not many so Miyazaki came up with a solution employ animators full-time with a fixed salary and regularly recruit and train new staff that sounds a lot better number 70 the next big Ghibli production was only yesterday in 1991 directed by Takahata it became a sleeper hit unexpectedly rocketing to number one in Japan in 1991 particularly due to its resonance with adult women number 71 Studio Ghibli was most pleased not by the box office success but by the success of Miyazaki's planned to raise the team salaries and still make a great movie however this also meant that production costs doubled from here on out to compensate for this increase Studio Ghibli decided to finally start incorporating advertising to secure box office success number 72 only yesterday was based off a manga called OMA he'd a photo photo the original book is told as a memoir about the narrator taiko at age 11 so Takahata decided to incorporate the adult taiko writing the memoir into the movie number 73 next came Porco Rosso in 1992 the movie about a world war one pilot cursed to look like a pig which of course means we're back to a Miyazaki movie number 74 Miyazaki had wanted to set the store in Croatia but he moved it after Civil War broke out there this made the movie more serious than he had intended since obviously a story about a flying pig is never meant to be serious movie number 75 while working on Porco Rosso Miyazaki was under a lot of pressure and to alleviate some of that stress he drew a blueprint for a new studio in cool picking all the construction materials Porco Rosso and the studio both finished production at nearly the exact same time number 76 at the new studio the ladies bathroom is twice the size of the men's bathroom despite approximately having equal male and female employees people kind of attribute this the Miyazaki's feminism number 77 the studio was intentionally designed with less parking space and more greenery hmm you get the feeling Miyazaki cares about the environment of something number 78 in 1993 Ghibli differentiated itself from all the other studios in the biz by having animation art painting and photography departments all in-house the trend was to do the exact opposite but the studio thought it was more important to keep everyone under the same roof with a shared goal number 79 whisper of the heart released in 1995 was directed by Yoshi foo Macondo it was the last Ghibli film before Princess Mononoke meaning the last film before Studio Ghibli took off as an international brand their hard work paid off and Princess Mononoke was a massive hit for real this time number 80 Miyazaki did write the script and do the storyboards for whisper of the heart but Yoshi Fumi Kondo was selected to direct it so that Ghibli could branch out from their usual two directors Kondo was the top animator Ghibli so he was the natural choice for the job number 81 case came miyazaki hayao second son created a woodcut print called craftsman making a violin in prison which is featured in a book in whisper of the heart number 82 Miyazaki quit Ghibli in January of 1998 and built a whole new studio mutia or big house nearby just one year later though he unquote and returned to Ghibli as a new head of the office as if he wasn't already number 83 Miyazaki began worrying about his aging staff many of whom have been at Ghibli for two decades he came up with an idea to open a shop so the animators could stab the shop part time they went location hunting for a place and after picking a site that was far too big from one shop they decided to open up a whole museum instead you always out to yourself Miyazaki number 84 when asking for advice on how to run a museum it was recommended that the place be quiet dark and not disruptive dough in typical Ghibli fashion Ghibli decided to do the exact opposite and open a museum that specifically caters to children number 85 Miyazaki designed the entire museum himself using storyboards as though it were a movie he was inspired by European architecture employing spiral staircases bridges and balconies all over the building's perimeter eighty-six the museum first entered the planning phase in 1998 began construction in 2000 and opened in 2001 that's about the same amount of time it takes Ghibli to crank out a movie number 87 the Saturn theater in the basement of the museum shows several Ghibli short films that are unavailable elsewhere these include kodos big wok water spider-man one may in the Khitan bus the day I harvested a star the whale hunt looking for a home a sumo wrestlers tail miss erdo and the egg princess treasure hunting and coming soon Bordeaux the caterpillar number 88 miyazaki designed the theater keeping in mind that small children would be among the visitors worried that they might get scared in a dark basement he had windows installed with shades that open up after each showing number 89 since we did cover 107 facts about spirited away we're going to talk about sooner jubblies next major production Howl's Moving Castle which quite possibly could have a 107 facts all to itself falling in mind with Miyazaki's other recent movies Howl's was part film part political commentary which may have helped him earn its place as one of Ghibli s finest number 90 the castle for Howl's Moving Castle you know the moving one was actually not designed for the film Miyazaki had originally drawn it to fill in empty space in the Ghibli museum but when it came time to design the Moving Castle Souza ki recommended that they just used that one detect some legs on it and bam moving castle number 91 due to Miyazaki's habit of being a control freak Studio Ghibli was never really able to train anybody to take his place music he had once tapped whisper of the heart director Yoshi Fumi Kondo to take his place but tragically Kondo passed away in 1998 the CEO put off making another decision on the matter for as long as possible number 92 at one point it was thought that Goro Miyazaki may be the successor the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in the Miyazaki family or in this case the child of a frog is a frog this is what animator Oates koyasu exclaimed upon seeing a storyboard by Goro and realizing that he ought to get involved in Studio Ghibli as well runs in the family number 93 Miyazaki was very critical of his son's work and was opposed to letting him direct anything that is until Souza ki showed him a poster that go toed Roo for tales from Earthsea which was such a powerful image that it left Miyazaki speechless and that sounds like a tricky thing to do number 94 tales from Earthsea came out in 2006 to mix reviews and less than outstanding success miyazaki still praised his sons direction with the film but it showed that goethe was perhaps still not prepared to succeed his father number 95 Gordo did go on to create from up on poppy Hill which earned several awards and nominations including a win for the Japan Academy prize of animation and a nomination at the Annie Awards so where he not go to story is not over yet number 96 one of the newer directors is hito masa uni by Oishi who had been a Ghibli in-betweener artist and later directed The Secret World of Arrietty he also went on to write and direct when Marnie was there one of the most recent Ghibli ventures number 97 Miyazaki's most recent film the wind rises came out in 2014 as a biopic about a pilot it seemed like a natural last movie for Misaki Souza ki said that he was particularly excited for the wind rises because if you've learned nothing else from this video Miyazaki loves airplanes and hates war so a movie about war hating and airplane loving is just his speed number 98 a 2013 documentary the Kingdom of Dreams and madness is all about Studio Ghibli during the development of the wind rises and the tale of Princess Kaguya which happened simultaneously old habits die hard number 99 for those aching for more Miyazaki don't worry he's retired six times and come back each and every time his recent retirement for instance was interrupted to work on border the caterpillar a CGI short film for the Ghibli Museum number 100 see you jibley rarely ever uses CG since Miyazaki prefers hand-drawn animation the first time they used it was in pom Poko for a pan of the library shelves drawing this pan by hand would have been doable but offered no creative value so they opted for CG just to simplify it number 101 Miyazaki tends to dislike the storytelling in modern Disney films he prefers the early short films such as Silly Symphonies Suzuki on the other hand raved about Disney Zootopia number 102 the genius is a Studio Ghibli and Pixar Animation Studios have an animation bromance John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki are friends and have been known to praise and visit each other talent recognizing other Talent Ghibli even gave Lasseter the head of the cat bus from the Ghibli Museum as a gift number 103 there's some fan speculation that Studio Ghibli movies are actually connected they mainly point to the shared themes and lore of some the movies as bridges sort of like the Pixar theory but not nearly as conspiratorial can see those theories in our cartoon conspiracy videos which will leave in their hands to explain number 104 in addition to full-length features Studio Ghibli has produced several short films such as a blurred chicken the night of Tana Yamaka Hara and jubblies number 105 four of the top 10 highest-grossing movies in Japan are Studio Ghibli films spirited away Princess Mononoke Han Yeo and Howl's Moving Castle number 106 Studio Ghibli not only brings home the green but also the gold they've won the japanese academy prize for Best Picture for Princess Mononoke in 1997 and spirited away in 2001 as well as the animation of the Year award for Ponyo on the cliff by the sea in 2009 Arrietty in 2011 from up on poppy Hill in 2012 and the wind rises in 2014 number 107 in 2002 spirited away became the first foreign movie to win Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards thanks for watching 107 facts about Studio Ghibli are their Ghibli films that you love that we didn't cover here any that you want a 107 facts video on let us know in the comments below we have new videos dropping every week so let us know 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Published: Fri Nov 11 2016