director mami sunada spent months, following miyazaki and his team at work, capturing their creative madness level. i caught up with her on the eve of today's premiere. so we just heard from hayao miyazaki saying that this time for real, he's retiring. were you surprised that he actually came out with another movie? translation: for the last few decades, he'd been saying - with many movie releases, "that's it, i'm going to retire." and then years later, he'd come out with another film because he's done that repeatedly ten years ago. many people wondered if he was really retiring. there were a lot ofjournalists in the room when he said that he was serious about it. but at the same time, they distributed a statement from mr miyazaki. and in there there was a line which said, "i'm going to continue working for another ten years." i thought that line represented him very well, but i didn't expect him to come out with another feature film. i'd say animation is his life. so part of me is very happy to see the new film being released. can you tell me how long you spend with studio ghibli an