崖の上のポニョ

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Summary: Hayao Miyazaki announced the next Ghibli film '崖の上のポニョ'(Gake no ue no Ponyo, or Ponyo on a cliff) to be released in 2008. It's a story about a 5 year old boy Sosuke modelled around Hayao's son Goro and a goldfish princess named ponyo. The setting is based on 鞆の浦 (tomo no ura), a little town on the bay. Producer Suzuki said 70-80% of the story revolves around sea. They adopted watercolor and pastel like medium for the movie.

The story's interesting and the medium is also refreshing. I adore the watercolor approach in 'my neighbor the yamadas'. I have a feeling the movie's gonna be a whole new concept and Ghibli always does a brilliant job in landscapes.Remember the sea in Spirited Away or the enchanted forest in Princess Mononoke?

In previous interviews I read from Nausicaa.net, it's rumored that Miyazaki includes at least one の (no) in the title, like a spell that ensures the movie's gonna succeed. Princess moNONOke, Sen to Chihiro NO Kamikakushi(Spirited Away), Tonari NO Totoro (My neighbor Totoro), Majo NO Takkyuubin (Kiki's delivery service), Hauru NO Ugoku Shiro (Howl's moving castle), Kaze NO Tani NO Naushika (Nausicaa the valley of wind)...haha, funny old man.

Maybe his son should rename 'Gedo Senki' as 'Gedo no Senki', just a thought...

Ryszard Czekała

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Ryszard Czekała
1941年出生，与家父相近。波兰。

主要动画作品
Ptak (the Bird, 鸟), 1968
Syn (the Son, 儿子), 1970
Apel (the Roll-Call, 点名), 1971
Czlowiek i chleb (Human and Bread, 人与面包), 1997

作品中沉郁、厚重的震撼力量撞击心灵。剪纸动画形式迸发出如此惊人的表现力，前所未有！其中首部作品-鸟，讲的是一个看管公厕的老头儿，省吃俭用，用节省下来的钱买鸟放飞的故事。故事太好了，表现形式也极为精彩，而且这竟然是他的首部作品！

秒速5センチメートル

官方网站:http://5cm.yahoo.co.jp/index.html




以下简介转自http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/4b3c615c010006ql

片名：《秒速5センチメートル》- a chain of short stories about their distance
译名：《秒速5cm》- 有关他们之间的距离的连续短篇故事
监督/编剧：新海诚 (Makoto Shinkai)
制作：CoMix Wave
音乐：天门
主题歌：山崎まさよし《One more time, One more chance》
首映：2007年初春 涩谷CinemaRise影院

知つてる
樱の花のおちるスピ--ド
秒速5セソチメ--トル
どれほどの速さで生きれば、
きみにまた会えるのか

知道么？
樱花凋落的速度是
每秒5厘米

那，我要以怎样的速度生活
才能与你重逢呢？

——《秒速5cm》预告篇

新海诚2007年春季將推出新动画：《秒速5センチメートル》（中譯：秒速5cm。代表樱花掉落的速度）。电影副标题为“a chain of short stories about their distance”意为：有关他们之间的距离的连续短篇故事，片长为60分钟左右，。故事背景是[上世纪90年代后期]与[当代]两个时段的日本现实社会，以少年远野贵树为主轴，由3部连续短篇动画交织出男女主角两人的故事，分别为《桜花抄》（贵树与明里的重逢）、《Cosmonautコスモナウト》（他人视角中的贵树）、《秒速5センチメートル》（贵树内心的彷徨）。

新海誠的新作，07年上映。虽然不是很喜欢他的人物设定，总体还是满期待的。作为导演，新海誠的审美意识和岩井俊二的还蛮像的，取材青涩的青春故事，而且擅长用唯美的自然环境（樱花，雪，阳光斑斓的放学课堂等）来烘托年轻人的梦想和自我压抑。晦涩的甜美似乎更适合作为定格的画面来享受，故事情节方面并不算特别充实。之前的那部《云的彼端，约束的场所》也是这番感觉，科幻像是辅佐作用，增添了不少浪漫和命运的成分。背景设定一直都很强，非常协调的颜色搭配，光的处理也和岩井电影中的手法类似。官方网站上有不少壁纸照片，贴几张上来。

这个是新海誠早期的作品《彼女と彼女の猫》（她和她的猫），灰白短篇，关于心灵治愈的故事，朴素平淡。

Gedo Senki wins Raspberry Award

Original News from Ghibli.world

I haven't yet seen the movie but well... not the least did I expect it to win the worst film + director ever!

21th of January, GEDO SENKI "WINNER" BUNSHUN RASPBERRY AWARD "WORST FILM 2006": Of course with all the great movies made by Studio Ghibli we’re often blessed with good Ghibli news. However, this time it’s not the case. Logboy, from the excellent film website Twitch, pointed me to a news item on Hoga Central about Japan's annual Bunshun Raspberry Awards. For those not familiar with these awards, they are given to the worst movies in the year selected by 32 movie critics in Japan. Unfortunately, Gedo Senki "won" the award for worst movie, as well as Goro Miyazaki "winning" the award for worst director.