There’s sad news for Studio Ghibli fans today, as the studio’s co-founder Isao Takahata has passed away at the age of 82. Takahata’s career as a producer and director of animation spanned more than half a century, and his best-known works include the haunting war film Grave of the Fireflies, and Oscar-nominated fantasy The Tale of The Princess Kaguya.
Takahata was born in 1935, in Mie Prefecture in central Japan, and graduated from the University of Tokyo. After beginning his career at Toei Animation in 1959, Takahata went on to co-found Studio Ghibli, one of the most acclaimed animation studios in the world, with his longtime collaborator Hayao Miyazaki in 1985. During ...
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