While waiting for the release of Inside Out 2 in cinemas, which will arrive in Italy on 19 June, we want to tell you a nice curiosity that links Pixar to the legendary Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.
The Studio Ghibli author, who this year won his second competitive Oscar at the 2024 Academy Awards thanks to the statuette for best animation awarded to The Boy and The Heron, in the past he admitted he loved only one Pixar film: Pete Docter’s Upa 2009 masterpiece and the studio’s tenth feature film, famous for having become the second animated film in history to be nominated for an Oscar as best film after Beauty and the Beast and for having obtained a total of 5 nominations, winning two Oscars for best animated film and best soundtrack by Michael Giacchino.
Hayao Miyazaki talked about Up in 2009, the same year as the film’s release, during an interview broadcast on Japanese television: the author praises the famous opening scene, a film-within-a-film that tells the protagonist’s tragic love story Carl. It is one of the most famous sequences in the history of animated and non-animated cinema, and it also won over Miyazaki; furthermore, the author also praised Pete Docter’s film for how it represented the movements of the elderly and for the famous idea of the flying house thanks to balloons.
In general, however, Hayao Miyazaki has repeatedly said he is a fan of Pixareven though he revealed that he had seen very few films by the American production company: a friend of John Lasseter, director and fundamental author of the first Pixar, the Japanese director included a reference to Luxo Jr, the symbolic lamp of Pixar, in his famous film La Spirited Away (whose American adaptation was supervised by John Lasseter) and after the kind words for Up Pixar reciprocated by mentioning Studio Ghibli in Toy Story 3which features a plush modeled after Totoro, the symbol of the Japanese production company.
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