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  • 2018
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2018
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 10 m

Summary In 2013, film director and animator Hayao Miyazaki suddenly announced his retirement at the age of 72. But he couldn't shake his burning desire to create. After an encounter with young CGI animators, Miyazaki embarked on a new endeavor, his first project ever to utilize CGI. But the artist, who had been adamant about hand-drawn animation...

Directed By: Kaku Arakawa

  • 2018
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2018
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 10 m

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary In 2013, film director and animator Hayao Miyazaki suddenly announced his retirement at the age of 72. But he couldn't shake his burning desire to create. After an encounter with young CGI animators, Miyazaki embarked on a new endeavor, his first project ever to utilize CGI. But the artist, who had been adamant about hand-drawn animation...

Directed By: Kaku Arakawa

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80
Dec 11, 2018
Never-Ending Man is an impressive documentary.
By Toussaint Egan FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 13, 2018
This unpolished film only runs for 70 minutes, but its reluctant subject — who repeatedly asks Arakawa why any of this is worth capturing on camera — unlooses enough despair to fill the pages of an epic Russian novel.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 9, 2018
Kaku Arakawa's documentary is a candid snapshot of a great artist as an old man.
By Keith Watson FULL REVIEW
67
Dec 12, 2018
Viewers unfamiliar with Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s extraordinary output over the years may find Never-Ending Man an exercise in tedium – the creation of an animated film, even a short one, is a famously slow and exceedingly precise process – but for those who, like me, adore his life’s work, it’s a precious and fascinating glimpse into the inner life of the world’s greatest living animator.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 14, 2018
Had Arakawa widened the portrait just a bit to include other voices — whether artistic collaborators or the young audiences still just discovering his work — the film would easily have demonstrated how his legacy will live forever. Then again, it’s assumed that anyone watching “Never-Ending Man” knows that already.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 13, 2018
It’s never boring but a trifle diffuse. If you’re a Miyazaki fan, you’ll want to see it anyway.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 14, 2018
Though fans will enjoy the behind-the-scenes view, and anyone interested in creativity can appreciate watching a master attempt to expand his turf so late in life, the doc's narrow scope and aesthetic limitations make it a fans-only affair, certainly not a full-bodied account of this man's towering career.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company NHK
Release Date Dec 13, 2018
Duration 1 h 10 m
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