Studio Ghibli assures that it will continue taking on challenges after receiving an honorary award at Cannes

The Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli was happy this Thursday after announcing that it will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival in May and said he will continue to take on new challenges going forward.

“I am truly honored to receive this award. Both the director (Hayao) Miyazaki and I are already quite old, but I am sure that Studio Ghibli will continue to take on new challenges through the team that continues and that it will continue to inherit its essence.”said producer Toshio Suzuki after learning the news, in statements reported by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK.

Suzuki, who frequently serves as spokesperson for Ghibli, spoke in this way after the Cannes Film Festival announced on Wednesday that it will award the Palme d’Or of Honor to the Japanese studio, marking the first time that an entity will receive the award, granted until now only on an individual basis.

The organization of the festival, one of the three most important in the world and which will celebrate its edition this year between May 14 and 25, highlighted in a statement that Studio Ghibli “has brought a fresh air to animated cinema during the last four decades”, with characters and imaginaries that have become icons of cinema and “sensitive and committed narratives”.

Since its creation in 1985, the Japanese animation studio has made more than twenty feature films, many of which became international hits, such as the Oscar-winning ‘Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi’ (Spirited Away/Spirited Away, 2001). .

The last film by its iconic and also Oscar-winning director Miyazaki, ‘Kimitachi wa do ikiru ka’ (The Boy and the Heron, 2003), won again this year with the statuette for Best Animated Film at the awards from the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

With information from EFE