Directed by HAYAO MIYAZAKI
Starring SOMA SANTOKI, MASAKI SUDA, TAKUYA KIMURA
Released 26 DECEMBER
may or may not be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film. The 82-year-old Studio Ghibli head previously announced his retirement after completing in 1997, in 2001, and in 2013. But at the Toronto International Film Festival, a colleague of the great is richly self-synthesising and achingly sentimental, collating artistic motifs from across the Miyazaki filmography and nakedly articulating the hopes it places in the next generation.