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Director, Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Isao Takahata es Away
posted on by Karen Ressler
Anime director and Studio-Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata ed away in a Tokyo hospital on Thursday. He was 82.
The Japanese websites Sanspo and NTV News 24 reported the news, and both cited unnamed related parties who said that Takahata had been in declining health since last summer.
Takahata ed Toei Douga (now My Neighbors the Yamadas.
Takahata's final film as director was The Tale of Princess Kaguya, which debuted in 2013. Takahata told entertainment news website Variety in 2016, "I have several projects that I still have in mind that I am currently working on to get closer to realizing. Whether those will be finalized as films is something that no one, myself included, can know."
Sources: Sanspo, NTV News 24 via Anime Next
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