The case is solved! Hayao Miyazaki is the most anti-war director in Japan

In 2013, the director of Hayao Miyazaki released a new animated film " " after 5 years. This film is based on the designer of zero fighter and aircraft design technician Jiro Horigotsu. It also draws on the essence of and Hori Tatsuo . It depicts the difficult time when disasters, depressions, and wars coexist. The lives of people who pursue their dreams.

Although the movie is based on history, Hayao Miyazaki said in an interview with the media that " actually depicts the current era ." Unexpectedly, this sentence that was said at the beginning of the movie’s release came true. Nearly a month later, because of the anti-war stance and political disputes, "The Wind Is Up" subsequently attracted a group of right-wingers’ rhetoric attacks. Hayao Miyazaki, who was discussing the movie, could not escape the chasing and interception of right-wing elements, and was deeply caught in the whirlpool of political public opinion.

It must be admitted that no matter how the reality brings the political dirt to the movie, "The 11th Wind Is Born" is the year of Miyazaki. The artistic brilliance of this work cannot be concealed. In this new work, Hayao Miyazaki takes a real person in history as the protagonist for the first time-Japan's "Father of Zero Fighter" Jiro Horikoshi. Jiro Horigotsu was born in Fujioka City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan in 1903. He graduated from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1927.He was responsible for designing many fighter jets used by Japan in World War II, the most famous of which was the "Zero Fighter" used by the Japanese in the attack on Pearl Harbor and other battles. After the defeat of Japan, Jiro Horikoshi entered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , but never made any achievements, and eventually died in 1982.

In 2009, Hayao Miyazaki created a monthly series of comics based on the 1937 short story "The Wind Rises" by writer Tatsuo Hori. In addition to telling the story of Jiro Horikoshi’s youth, this manga also puts the writer ’s love story with a tuberculosis girl in his youth on Jiro Horikoshi’s body, which eventually became the movie The source of the story.

The name "The Wind Is Up" comes from the French poet Paul Varelli spanspan strong1span 1 spanspan1 spanspan1 1span2 In that poem it was written: "In spite of the strong wind, life will never give up" . Later Hori Tatsuo used the first half of this sentence as the name of the novel when he created it, and Hayao Miyazaki continued to use this name, and used the second half of the line as a slogan on the poster to express his feelings for Jiro Horikoshi and Tatsuo Hori. pay tribute.

Coincidentally,On the second day after Miyazaki finished painting the scene of the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, an earthquake occurred in Japan, which made Miyazaki feel that "he has been caught up with the times". "I don't know if this is the first step in the destruction of mass consumption civilization, but I feel that today's era is full of urgency." Hayao Miyazaki said.

confessed to "hate Japan"

Although the movie depicts the scene from the Japanese Taisho _span_span, there is no obvious war in the era of the show. In this regard, Miyazaki has his own consideration. It turned out that Jiro Horikoshi's fighters had been thrown into the battlefield in mainland China in large numbers, mainly to cover bombers. If you want to show it in the movie, you need to describe the air battle with the Chinese army. Miyazaki’s worries are here: "You can imagine how China and the entire Korean peninsula (people) would feel when they saw this situation."

But Miyazaki’s worries still failed to avoid the incident. Since the Zero Fighter was Japan’s main fighter during World War II, some South Korean media accused Miyazaki of “beautifying those who served the war”. At the press conference last month, Hayao Miyazaki responded to the South Korean media: "All countries in East Asia should live in harmony, and China, South Korea and Japan should not fight each other." He also believes that the comfort women issue affects everyone. The dignity of the country, so Japan must clearly apologize and properly compensate.

and previously he published articles in the magazine "Hot Wind" of studio Ghibli of ,Use a considerable amount of space to discuss the issue of Japan's constitutional amendment. In the article, Miyazaki said that he had experienced the shadow of defeat from the time he was sensible, even because of Japan’s atrocities against China. “hate Japan” Constitution's attempt. "Needless to say, I am opposed to amending the constitution. This should never happen."

His remarks quickly caused great controversy. On the second day of the press conference, Hayao Miyazaki worked at Ghibli. More than 2,000 messages appeared on the room's webpage. Some Japanese netizens called Hayao Miyazaki an "anti-Japanese traitor" and believed that he had failed to consider the feelings of the Japanese and was disappointed by his "non-patriotic behavior." Others said, "I don't understand this old fool at all."

is in contradiction

In fact, as an anti-warist, Miyazaki also has a deep knowledge of the history of world wars, and he also has a good knowledge of weapons. He is evaluated as a "contradictory person", and this contradiction is undisguised in his series of works.

Except for " My Neighbor Totoro", " Spirited Away" and "Princess on the Cliff", others like Repka and " Wind" in " Future Boy Conan" Kushana and Officer Pegit, the emperor of the Kingdom of Torumekia in "Valley of the Valley", the pimple monk in "Princess Mononoke", Muska in "Sky City", "Howl's Moving Castle" King Saliman in China,As the leaders of the military or armed forces, they are almost all profit-seeking guys. They wage wars, wound innocent people, and eventually lead to the end of humanity.

Hayao Miyazaki

The 72-year-old Hayao Miyazaki grew up in the shadow of Japan's defeat, and his understanding of the country has gradually formed in this context. Miyazaki's father was a manufacturer of aircraft components before World War II. During the war, the family was displaced. All kinds of experiences have made Hayao Miyazaki a staunch opponent of war ideologically. While still in college, Hayao Miyazaki participated in civil activities against the " Japan-U.S. Security Treaty", and later became a leftist with a progressive understanding of socialist thinking. But in the 1990s, with The disintegration of the Soviet Union , the socialist ideals he had longed for collapsed. At that time, Hayao Miyazaki, who was writing the disintegration of the "Turuuk" kingdom in "Nausicaa", was surprised to find: "A country as powerful as the former Soviet Union is actually easier to fall apart than the Duruk kingdom."

Some Westerners commented on Hayao Miyazaki: "He is an artist in conflict. On the one hand, we see his love for nature, his idealism, and on the other hand, we I also see skepticism and cynicism. His world-weariness and realism.” There is no doubt that in the movie "The Wind Is Up" and the storm caused by this movie, what you see is the whole palace. Hayao Saki.

( author: Yang Meiju)