Turning Point: 1997-2008

If you read Starting Point, his collection of essays and interviews from 1979-1996, you'll love Turning Point. It follows the same format, showing translated articles from various interviews/essays/notes/sketches. It really helps to expand the understanding of the various films he's made and worked on. You get to read in his own words what he thinks of them, his inspirations, and low points, what he considered the best and the worst. There are also parts where he talks simply about his opinion on the state of the world, his interpretation of nature, films, animation, the conditions necessary to raise a child just to name a few.In short, if you want to have a more robust understanding of Miyazaki Hayao and where he's coming from, buy this book. After you read Starting Point of course. This is a continuation of that and it shows his growth as a person and animator. He's not perfect. He admits he has faults, that he's not the best person. But he's honest and true to his vision and someone I greatly respect for sticking to his beliefs.

Daughter-in-law will love this. Ordered both volumes.

Now that we face Miyazaki's retirement from films, one can only wonder how he was at his peak the last 10 years of his career. Beginning with "Princess Mononoke", you can notice in every conversation in this book that Mr. Miyazaki was reaching new ground beyond what animation has been all over the world. Here you may find more conversations and interviews than articles, and you will perceive how Hayao Miyazaki has become a cultural force in Japan and all over the world. It's a must have for every film enthusiast who wants to understand the greatness and importance of Miyazaki's work. Also you may find interesting what Miyazaki really thinks of Disney animation.

It arrived on time and in great condition. If you are buying this I recommend you buy Starting Point first because this is the second book to that. This is a very good read and incredibly inspirational!

Such an in depth look at the great man Hayao Miyazaki, totally worth the money. I've read this book multiple times and still can't put it down.

This book takes you through the wisdom and intellect of Hayao Miyazaki who wrote and animated some of the most important works of humanity. Some of these which include: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Nausicaa of the valley of the wind.

Really enjoyed this book but I had issues with so many interviews being similar. So you end up reading the same questions and same responses repeatedly. I also thought it was naive of Miyazaki to grossly generalize people on quite a few occasions in the interviews. In several parts he pretty much says Americans could never understand some aspect of cinema because their movies are all about blowing stuff up and that's what they all enjoy. I mean there are variations of this kind of thing where he takes American POP CULTURE (ACK!) and uses it to generalize 300 million people. He does throw around other generalizations about Japan, Europe etc as well. Anyhow, I did get a lot of what I was hoping for too. You get a sense of where he got certain ideas for movies and why he made certain decisions in directing a film a certain way. You can get some of these ideas about Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle. Anyways, it was very much like the previous book, "Starting Point" but this one (Turning Point) was mostly interviews, some poems, and a few essays or they might've been speeches. No articles that I can remember. There were chunks of content that could've been left out without losing anything. As I said, content is repeated in a few places. Far worse in the first half of the book. Worth reading for people who want more insight into this masterful director with the understanding that there are a few awkward and unrelated comments to take with a grain of salt.I still give it four stars because for good or bad, it's mostly what I wanted. And in the afterword, Miyazaki writes about how uncomfortable he was/is about the book. That he felt it misrepresented him or at least didn't identify fully with the book in some ways which is probably the nature of biographies. Views change and also generalizations fade when you're standing in front of someone shaking their hand. And besides, pretty much everyone is contrary at some point, and it's going to be especially obvious when interview after interview is documented like this.

Good shipping came on time without any damage

I love the book.

El libro llegó a tiempo y en buen estado. Una agradable lectura sobre los momentos de su vida de Hayao Miyasaki que inspirado sus películas.

An excellent collection of essays, articles, movie pitches and interviews that offer a deep insight into one of the great film makers and Animators of all time

Grande livro

Insieme a Starting Point, questo libro completa la panoramica su Miyazaki come uomo d'animazione.Anche questa è sicuramente una lettura fondamentale per chi vuole saperne di più sulla figura più importante (e portante) dello Studio Ghibli.