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Suzuki Toshio, co-founder, former general manager of Studio Ghibli has resigned from his position in March and will leave the studio June this year. Miyazaki, another co-founder, refuses to comment on this.
He almost bankrupted the studio when he was the general manager. He was alledgedly "too obsessed with" his Thai mistress named "カンヤダ" (read: kanyada) who is a single mom. He was accused by sources to have helped the Thai single mother financially by building her a restaurant and a spa. Both of which is gone out of business. At first he used the money out of his pocket but later the problem also involves the studio.
In 2018, he gave her a restaurant and let her manage it. The restaurant closed within a year.
In 2020, he hired her as a photographer even though she had no prior experience.
Employees at the studio had to organize events for the Thai woman to work using the studio's funds to cover lodging and travel costs. A source who works at the studio told.
An editor of a publishing company was requested to hire her as a photographer and exhibit her onsen photographs in Iwate prefecture. Employees at the studio suspect she only wanted to travel.
Suzuki's work motto is "Mixing Work with Pleasure" which started out as using his own passion to drive his work but ends up almost destroying his own company.
We can only guess how will this incident affects Studio Ghibli's upcoming release "How Do You Live?"
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Found some cool stuff:
The Thai looks all right. Nothing to write home about...
Fun argument about the True Miyazaki:
(most) Studio Ghibli movies
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lmao how do people who lead such severely dysfunctional lives manage to make movies so beautiful?
Oh come now From Up on Poppy Hill isn't THAT bad.
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Polanski is a male feminist, Watsuki is a p-do, Gibson was Gibson. At the end of the day, all it shows is that someone with shitty behavior isn't automatically incapable of empathy and understanding the nicer things about life.
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wasnt polanski a huge p-do too
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Yeah the girl he's accused of raping wasn't of age.
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Michael jackson
Need I say more?
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What did Michael Jackson do?
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Legally? Nothing
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He did this tho
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She's probably an absolute freak in bed
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They haven't made a good movie in almost twenty years
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https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066662290/?sort=release_date,desc&st_dt=&mode=detail&page=1
Yeah, last one I really liked was Howl's Moving Castle (2004). Ponyo was cute, and the rest were all right.
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Ponyo was fricking gay and probably the worst Ghibli movie. It was a turning point for Ghibli. They used to make movies that adults and children could enjoy, but Ponyo was a disney movie for little kids with no suspense, stakes or human feelings.
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I know what you mean, but the airplanes one and the other 2010s movies about 'real life' kids were really boring. They felt like cardboard cutouts and the sense of wonder and adventure was lacking. That silly one, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013), was extremely boring. Zero stakes and super slow story-telling.
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