It can be said that without Chinese animation, there would be no glory of Disney today. The blooming of Japanese animation would be nothing more than nothing. At the beginning of the last century, Yang Zuotao, the "No. 1 Chinese animation" participated in the character design of

China is one of the birthplaces of the artistic expression form of animation.

It can be said that without Chinese animation, there would be no glory of Disney today. The blooming of Japanese animation would only be nothing more than nothing.

At the beginning of the last century, Yang Zuotao, the "No. 1 Chinese animation" participated in the character design of the animated feature "Snow White".

is also because of this animation that Disney animation company has pushed to its peak and is still one of the world's top manufacturers.

00000 brothers have influenced a generation of Japanese animation practitioners with animations such as "Princess Iron Fan" and "Make a Fight in the Heavenly Palace".

The founder of Japanese animation Osamu Tezuka , because he watched "The Princess Iron Fan" that he embarked on the road of creating comics.

animation master Miyazaki was influenced by "The Great Trouble" and decided to use animation as your lifelong career.

To put it bluntly, there will be no current Japanese animation without the former Chinese animation.

But after entering the 1980s, Chinese animation, as its predecessor, began to decline.

, as a junior Japanese animation, began to lead the world.

984, Hayao Miyazaki came to the Shanghai Mei Factory, which he was deeply impressed with, and with a learning attitude, he observed the seniors in the industry.

However, I didn’t expect that this trip to the US factory made Hayao Miyazaki very disappointed.

so much that in the next 30 years, he was unwilling to mention this matter again, and even used "sudden disappointment" to describe his experience at that time.

What did Miyazaki see at Shanghai American Factory back then, so that he no longer had fantasies about Shanghai American Factory animation?

What kind of attitude does Miyazaki have towards Chinese animation today?

Today, let’s talk about the indissoluble bond between Hayao Miyazaki and Chinese animation.

1941, Hayao Miyazaki was born in Fukaichi District, Tokyo, Japan.

Shortly after he was born, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor at night, and Miyazaki's father knew the cruelty of the war.

Therefore, on the grounds of family, he retreated from the front line, returned to his hometown, and became the director of the local military factory.

His behavior was labeled as "retreating at the last minute" by the locals, which implicated Miyazaki and was rolled by many neighbors.

The father doesn't care, because he is a selfish person himself.

As long as he can make money, his family is healthy and his family is harmonious, he does not care about the outcome of the war.

Miyazaki is different. He is still young and has a strong sense of self-esteem.

Faced with the ridicule of his companions, he even gave birth to the idea that he shouldn't have been born.

"Is my birth fundamentally a mistake?"

The unfair experience since childhood has developed Miyazaki's introverted personality. The only thing that can make him relax is animation.

Speaking of the reasons why Hayao Miyazaki entered the industry, it is closely related to China.

After the Second World War , Japan was in a mess, especially in terms of culture. The country encouraged the development of various art forms.

In this context, in 1958, the animated feature film "Handle of White Snake " produced by Toei was released.

Yes, you heard it right, Japan's first full-color animated feature film was actually created with Chinese culture as the background.

As for whether they have paid the copyright fee, this is unknown.

Miyazaki was in high school at that time. After watching the movie, he couldn't sleep at night.

The images of Xiaobai, Xiaoqing and Xu Xian can't be removed in his mind. He knew that he was in love with animation.

also falls in love with Chinese culture, so he uses animation as his main focus after graduation.

When he was in college, Hayao Miyazaki began to further his studies in the animation industry. After graduation, he joined Toei animation production company.

Here, he met his lifelong best friend, Isao Takahata .

Both people have common hobbies, both like animation and Chinese culture.

At that time, the Shanghai American factory had already become famous worldwide.

As a practitioner in the animation industry, both of them are very interested in the works of the American factory.

They can chat about "Princess Iron Fan" and "The Tadpole Looking for Mother" every night.

and show great interest in China's unique ink style animation.

Therefore, the two are determined to become, like Shangmei Factory, to create their own unique style animation.

In order to realize this dream, the two of them are gradually drifting away on the road of animation.

1964, the Shanghai American Factory launched an epoch-making animated film, "Making a Fight in the Heavenly Palace".

movie combines the unique Chinese culture such as Peking Opera , shadow puppet , and brings the story of the Monkey King to the screen.

As a Chinese animation enthusiast, shortly after the movie was released, he watched it with his friend Isao Takahata. After watching

, Miyazaki and Isao Takahata were filled with tears. They never thought that an animation could be made so beautifully.

From this moment on, Hayao Miyazaki fell in love with the Shanghai Miyazaki factory and decided to use animation as his lifelong career.

972, China and Japan established diplomatic relations, and China gave the national treasure giant panda to Japan as a gift.

Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata seized the opportunity and used this as a prototype to create the animated short film "Panda Father and Son" and sequel.

sharp-eyed netizens may have seen that the Panda father in the short film is the prototype of the movie " Totoro ". The short film

allows Miyazaki to start making its mark in the Japanese animation circle and gain more opportunities.

In 1979, director Hayao Miyazaki's first animated film, "Lupin III: The City of Carriostro", with poor results.

In 1984, Miyazaki's animated film " Wind Valley ", written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. This movie made him a hit in the Japanese animation industry. After becoming famous at

, Hayao Miyazaki felt that he could finally enter the Shanghai American factory and humbly ask the seniors in the animation industry for advice.

So, in this year, he and his friend Isao Takahata crossed the ocean and came to the Shanghai-Mei Factory, which he longed for.

In order to show the final result, he also brought the film from the movie "Gulf of Wind" and gave it to Shangmei Factory as a gift.

He thought that this time he went to the US factory, he would meet many people who were like himself who were willing to fight for the animation career for the rest of his life.

However, he didn't expect that as soon as he walked into the Shangmei Factory, he was poured with a bucket of cold water on his head. The first question asked by leaders of the American factory when they met Hayao Miyazaki was not how to create better animations.

, but opens and closes his mouth, full of copper smell.

"How much does a Japanese original painting cost? How much does it cost to make an animation in one second?"

Finally, the visit was over. The leader of the Shanghai Mean Factory invited Hayao Miyazaki to a banquet and invited him to taste Chinese food.

Looking at the table full of delicacies, Hayao Miyazaki couldn't eat it. He and Isao Takahata looked at each other and only saw disappointment in each other's eyes.

He would rather discuss animation with his seniors in Shanghai Mei Factory until he forgets to eat and sleep.

is not willing to enjoy a generous meal after the tour perfunctorily.

This time it was not a good trip, completely breaking the beautiful fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki's encounter with the American factory.

From then on, he never set foot in this land of China again, and he was even unwilling to mention his experience at the Shanghai American factory.

It was not until 2014 that Hayao Miyazaki mentioned the incident that year when he was interviewed by Southern Weekend magazine.

Miyazaki and Isao Takahata used "too disappointed to the point of being unresolved" to describe the feeling at that time.

After the visit to China, Hayao Miyazaki received invitations and lectures from China many times, but he refused.

Miyazaki Hayao expressed his views on the achievements made by Chinese animation in films today in just one sentence.

"So I just said 'I respect the achievements of Chinese animated films', and I refused, I will not interfere."

In fact, I can understand why Hayao Miyazaki was so disappointed with the US factory.

After all, before visiting China, Shanghai American Factory was like a "white moonlight" for Hayao Miyazaki.

But the cruel reality shattered Miyazaki's expectation.

Why did the animation holy land in my dream become like this?

In fact, we can't blame Shangmei Factory. When Hayao Miyazaki visited, Shangmei Factory was facing reform.

has transformed from a state-owned animation company to a commercial company.

Compared with creating high-quality animations, what they need to care about the most is how to survive.

Therefore, it is only when facing Hayao Miyazaki, it is so realistic.

But Hayao Miyazaki won't consider so much. He is a pure person and does not want too much interest in the animation industry.

This is also the root cause of the differences between the two parties.

But if it is just a difference in concept, the two sides would not be so stalemate.

In the final analysis, it is the animation of Shangmei Factory, which has had a great impact on Hayao Miyazaki's creative life.

: Hayao Miyazaki’s creative philosophy can be seen from his evaluation of Osamu Tezuka.

"I don't like Osamu Tezuka's works very much. Not only do I don't like it, but I don't agree with it!"

"Osamu Tezuka's words and opinions so far are all wrong!"

The reason why Hayao Miyazaki commented on Osamu Tezuka is because he felt that Osamu Tezuka brought Japanese animation into the business path.

Nowadays, the Japanese animation business can develop to such a high level, which can be said to be all due to Osamu Tezuka.

This made Hayao Miyazaki very unhappy, and even reached the point of disgust.

Osamu Tezuka believes that animation is a kind of imaginative art form, and in this art, anyone has the right to express it.

Under this concept, Japanese animation gradually formed a mature industrial system, and a large number of works are produced every year.

But the quality of these works is uneven, and some are even so bad that they cannot be seen. This is not what Miyazaki wants to see.

He believes that animation is an artistic expression method, and it is no different from novels and movies.

What the creator really should be dedicated to is not expressing it through animation, but how to express it through animation.

Tell every story well, draw every detail well, grind it carefully, and make a work of art.

instead of the industrial assembly line works.

Therefore, Miyazaki Hayao still does not admit that his works are animations, but movies.

Do netizens feel that they have a strong sense of déjà?

Yes, this is exactly the animation creation model advocated by the predecessors of the Shanghai American Factory in the 1960s and 1970s.

Therefore, Hayao Miyazaki's creative philosophy is completely influenced by the Shanghai American factory.

It is precisely because of this that he is so crazy about being obsessed with American factories.

Sadly, a visit to China made all the fantasies in his heart collapse.

made his persistence over the past decades of his career become a joke.

, so I used "too disappointed to the point of being unresolved" to describe this trip to the US factory.

Personally believe that Hayao Miyazaki’s concept is not necessarily wrong, but we don’t need to take it too seriously.

After all, we have the final say on how to go in the road of Chinese animation movies. There is no need to underestimate ourselves because of Hayao Miyazaki.

It is true that since the 1980s, Chinese animation has ushered in 20 years that are dark.

In the past 20 years, we have almost no outstanding work.

But around 2000, the younger generation of my country who loves animation grew up, injecting a brand new force into the animation industry.

After this, Chinese animation has entered a period of rapid development again, and a large number of very excellent animation works have emerged.

"Luo Xiaohei", "One Under", "Big Fish and Begonia", "The Devil Child Comes to the World"...

Although the work still has limitations, it is indeed developing in a good direction, step by step, and making progress every year.

I believe that in the next decade, Chinese animation will surely reach a higher peak.

We can produce the first Shangmei Factory and the Wan family brothers, and we can produce the second Shangmei Factory and the Wan family brothers.

One day sooner or later, Chinese animation will return to the top of the world with the attitude of an extremely strong person.

What we need to do is to continuously accumulate technology and experience in creation.

Step by step, waiting for that day to come.

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