10 years with hayao miyazaki download

There’s a reason why Hayao Miyazaki is known as the “never-ending man.” The 79-year-old animator and Studio Ghibli co-founder formally retired in 2013, only to return to the drawing board for 2014’s The Wind Rises and, in 2016, announce his upcoming film How Do You Live? 

His name wasn’t always synonymous with the world-renowned animation studio, however.

In fact, Miyazaki was relatively unknown outside of Japan until Miramax Films released Princess Mononoke in 1997. One of the chief agents in propelling Ghibli into global awareness was Steve Alpert, former head of the studio’s international division and author of the newly published memoir “Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man.” The book contains, among several culture-clash episodes of business dealings and glitzy award ceremonies, an inside look at what it was like to eat, breath and work alongside one of the world’s most celebrated animators. 

Here are five surprising facts we learned about Hayao Miy