Hayao Miyazaki is retiring from feature filmmaking, but the 73-year-old writer, director and animator says he will make movies for the rest of his life.
An Oscar winner for his 2002 film, Spirited Away, Miyazaki accepted an honorary Academy Award on Nov. 1 at the film academy’s Governors Awards.
“It’s an honor to receive this award,” Miyazaki said through a translator, adding that he is not looking forward to the trip to the US from his native Japan. “It’s going to be a bit of a bothersome thing for me to travel.” What he prefers to do is draw, write and tell stories, though doing so in a feature-length format has become physically challenging, he said.
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“It became very difficult for me to concentrate for such a long time that it takes to make a whole film, to concentrate that much,’’ he said. “I loved making feature-length films to be shown in theaters and making animation films, and my thought was to hand that over to the next generation.”
(AP)
七十三歲的作家、導演與動畫大師宮崎駿將不再拍攝劇情長片，但說他餘生還是會致力拍電影。
二００二年時以《神隱少女》一片拿下奧斯卡獎的宮崎駿，在十一月一日領取美國影藝學院頒發的奧斯卡榮譽獎項「主席獎」。
「獲頒此獎深感榮幸，」宮崎駿透過翻譯表示，他並不期待從日本來到美國的這趟旅行。「旅行對我來說變得有點麻煩。」他說，他寧可把時間花在畫畫、寫作與說故事上，儘管劇情長片的形式創作，對他的體力是一大挑戰。
「我愈來愈難花如此長的時間集中心力製作一部長片，」他說。「我喜歡製作能在戲院上映的劇情長片與製作動畫片，我的想法是要把這些留給下一代。」
（美聯社／翻譯：自由時報國際新聞中心）
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