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    Personally, I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams. It's a period of life when young people appear to have a great deal of freedom, but are in many ways actually opressed. Just when they find themselves powerfully attracted to members of opposite sex, they have to really crack the books. To escape from this depressing situation, they often find themselves wishing they could live in a world of their own - a world they can say is truly theirs, a world unknown even to their parents. To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world. I often refer to this feeling as one yearning for a lost world. It's a sense that although you may currently be living in a world of constraints, if you were free from those constraints, you would be able to do all sorts of things. And it's that feeling, I believe, that makes mid-teens so passionate about anime.


    — Hayao Miyazaki

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    Through a career that has spanned over fifty years Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of anime feature films and along with Isao Takahata co-founded Studio Ghibli a film and animation studio. He recently co-wrote the film The Secret World of Arrietty which was released in July 2010 in Japan and February 2012 in the United States. Starring the voices of Sumi Shimamoto Yōji Matsuda Iemasa Kayumi Gorō Naya and Yoshiko Sakakibara this was the first film both written and directed by Miyazaki.

    Miyazaki's films often contain recurrent themes like humanity's relationship with nature and technology and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. While Miyazaki's films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax Films released Princess Mononoke. He recently co-wrote the film The Secret World of Arrietty which was released in July 2010 in Japan and February 2012 in the United States.

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