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Yonebayashi is full of enthusiasm, for the landscape, the hospitality he received, the soft fruits, even the cuisine. So many different tones and shades!” From their bed and breakfast in Leintwardine, the directo, his producer and art director toured the Shropshire area viewing local manor houses, consulting the UK’s National Gardens Scheme’s Yellow Book for gardens to visit, asking locals what to see.
“What was different from what we imagined was the colours of trees and leaves and flowers. “We were familiar with English scenery through such works as Peter Rabbit and Thomas the Tank Engine,” says Yonebayashi.
Magical adventure … Mary and the Witch’s Flower. Given the choice, Yonebayashi opted to set his latest in England. Those were transposed to Japanese settings, largely for the benefit of domestic audiences. When Marnie Was There was an adaptation of a 1967 novel by Joan G Robinson, while Arrietty was of Mary Norton’s classic The Borrowers. The continuity is evident in the vibrant, hand-drawn animation and themes of prepubescent female self-identification, but also in the source material: all three of Yonebayashi’s movies have been based on books by British authors. The announced retirement of Ghibli’s founder and resident genius auteur, Hayao Miyazaki ( who subsequently changed his mind), resulted in Yonebayashi in setting up his own Studio Ponoc after Ghibli disbanded its production division in 2014. Yonebayashi is best known for his films When Marnie Was There and Arrietty, both made with Studio Ghibli, Japan’s pre-eminent animation house. Also, in the original book, nature is very beautifully and carefully portrayed: forests, gardens, flowers and plants, so we really needed to visit England to see the actual setting.” Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Imagesįantasy is most effective when it is grounded in a solid reality, Yonebayashi suggests: “For example, we do not have a culture of witches in Japan, so when we wanted to portray the concept of witches, we really valued original ideas. ‘We really needed to visit England’ … Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
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