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Art TV Program Nichiyō Bijutsukan to Feature Late Ghibli Director Isao Takahata
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The September 8 episode of the Isao Takahata. This marks the first time the program has ever showcased an anime director since the show debuted in 1976.
The theme of the program will be how Takahata pursued "the reality held by animation." Interviewed guests will include Aki Asakura.
Other guests will include Seiji Kanō, the film researcher who served as an adviser on the ongoing Takahata art exhibit in Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art; art historian Nobuo Tsuji, who lived in the same room as Takahata in university; Nizo Yamamoto; and the French animated film director Michael Ocelot, whose works influenced Takahata and vice versa.
The program will reveal the notes for The Tale of Princess Kaguya which Takahata wrote around 1960, as well as his study and personal library.
Takahata ed away on April 5 after a year-long battle with lung cancer. He was 82. He had a long career directing such classics as My Neighbors the Yamadas. Takahata's final film as director was The Tale of Princess Kaguya in 2013.
Source: Comic Natalie
