CANNES, France — Studio Ghibli, the Japanese anime manufacturing unit of surreal ecological wonders that has for 39 years spirited away moviegoers with tales of Totoros, magical jellyfish and floating castles, was celebrated Monday by the Cannes Film Festival with an honorary Palme d’Or.
In the 22 years that Cannes has been handing out honorary Palmes, the award for Ghibli was the primary for something however a person filmmaker or actor. Hayao Miyazaki, the 83-year-old animation grasp who based Studio Ghibli in 1985 with Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki, did not attend the ceremony, however he spoke in a video message taped in Japan.
“I do not perceive any of this,” said Miyazaki. “But thank you.”
At Cannes, where standing ovations can stretch on end, the fervor that greeted Ghibli’s emissaries — Goro Miyazaki and Kenichi Yoda — was nevertheless among the most thunderous receptions at the festival. Thierry Fremaux, Cannes’ artistic director, walked across the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière filming the long ovation, he said, for a video to send to Miyazaki.
“With this Palme d’Or, we’d like to thank you for all the magic you’ve brought to cinema,” said Iris Knobloch, the president of the festival, presenting the award.
The occasion wasn’t marked by any new Ghibli film but four earlier shorts that hadn’t previously been shown outside Japan. “Mei and the Baby Cat Bus,” a quick follow-up to Miyazaki’s 1989 “My Neighbor Totoro,” expands the Cat Bus of that basic to a complete fleet of cat conveyances, most notably the mini Baby Cat Bus.
The shorts, all of which had been made for the Studio Ghibli Museum exterior Tokyo, included “Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess,” a culinary-themed desert for Miyazaki’s 2001 film “Spirited Away.” The other two — “House Hunting” and “Boro the Caterpillar” — make musical mini-adventures for forest creatures.
The Studio Ghibli celebration came on the heels of Miyazaki’s long-awaited “The Boy and the Heron” winning the Academy Award in March for best animated film.
Miyazaki sat out that ceremony, too. Goro Miyazaki, whose own films include “From Up on Poppy Hill” and “Tales From Earthsea,” mentioned they’d to make use of a resort towel to wrap the Oscar to convey residence to his father. On Monday, he was relieved by the portability of the Cannes prize.
“I’m reassured seeing the Palme d’Or was in a field,” he mentioned, grinning.
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