Hayao Miyazaki Confirms Retirement, Says Studio Ghibli Not Making Any More Feature Films

This summer, the animation world was thrown into a bit of a tailspin when it was announced that Hayao Miyazaki had retired from filmmaking. Or had he? The news had come from translated reports from overseas, and it was a bit unclear what exactly was going on. But having just received an honorary Oscar over the weekend at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards, the director chatted briefly with the LA Times and confirmed that indeed, there will be no more movies from his imaginative pen.

In fact, the news gets worse, with Miyazaki also confirming that the beloved Studio Ghibli is also closing up shop on new movies. "At this point, we're not making a new film," he said. "I think we will not be making any feature films to be shown in theaters. That was not my intention, though. All I did was announce that I would be retiring and not making any more features."  

And Miyazaki is bleak about the future, not just for Studio...