News in Easy English: Famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki to show new 3D art boxes in July
(Mainichi Japan)
TOKYO -- Hayao Miyazaki, the famous Japanese anime director, will show new 3D "panorama boxes" in July. These are not movies, but small art works that people can look into through a window.
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Miyazaki, 85, started making the boxes in 2022 for Ghibli Park in Aichi Prefecture. There will be 31 boxes in the show, which starts on July 8.
The boxes use paper pictures of people and things placed in layers. This makes the scenes look deep and three-dimensional. Some boxes show famous scenes from Miyazaki's old anime, like "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind," "Kiki's Delivery Service" and "Porco Rosso." One box is a new work called "Fune no Hakaba" (Ship's graveyard), which has not been made into a movie.
The pictures were made with paper, pencils and paint. Miyazaki cut and put the pieces together by himself. Producer Toshio Suzuki said in a news conference that Miyazaki used the materials he knew best and made them himself.
The boxes are made so children can enjoy them easily. The windows are low, at a child's eye level. When Miyazaki saw young children enjoying them, he said, "Ghibli for children has returned."
Miyazaki did not come to the news conference, but Suzuki said he is still very active and wants to keep making new things. He is already working on an even bigger panorama box.
(Japanese original by Tomomi Katsuta, Cultural News Department)
Vocabulary
panorama box: a small box with layered pictures that looks three-dimensional
layer: one level placed over or under another
three-dimensional: looking like it has depth, not flat
producer: a person who helps make movies or art projects
scene: a part of a story or picture
active: full of energy and still working a lot
