Of course Hayao Miyazaki can work any time, whenever he wants to. He is a national treasure of Japan. Nobody stops him if he wants to produce a movie.

Putting aside that fact, I recently worry about his future.  He is nearly 70 years old.  Being that age, making a movie with enough passion and physical energy is really hard.

I saw Ponyo on the Cliff some months ago. Apparently he made it for children, not for any adults.  This is a really first approach he made.  In his movies, children were included in the expected viewers, but on Ponyo, he intensionally targetted only kids and maybe he dared not to think about adults for the kid movie.

His movies always had high motive each time.  That’s why he changed the world of animation.  He put his thoughts into the movie of animation even in the family movie, My neighbor TOTORO. That was, in other words, his challenge to the society with animated expression.

But I thought he didn’t challenge this time in Ponyo on the Cliff.  He probably tried to show the BEST world to children.

People often become soft and round when they feel the time of maturity.  If Hayao Miyazaki thinks like that, Ponyo on the Cliff could be the proof of his stage of the ending.

I hope my idea is wrong and he would once again come back to the challenging animation world.  I love his works.  So when I think of him recently, I maybe worry too much about this blank time until his next work coming up.

Please Make It Again, Miyazaki !