For over 50 years, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting the world with his films. Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke), Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away), or his latest film Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron), to name only a few of eleven feature films, ten short films, several manga, and also through Studio Ghibli, a museum and a theme park. They form a luminous body of work and characters that have become cult classics. Miyazaki’s films, often autobiographical, also reflect the state of the world and the turmoil of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, made of wars and ecological disasters. He was born in Japan in 1941, during World War II. As a child, he immersed himself in drawing manga until he had a revelation upon discovering Hakuja den (The White Snake Enchantress), the first Japanese colour animated film by Taiji Yabushita. From then on, he decided to devote his life to animation, this magical art capable of overcoming the darkness that had always deeply inhabited him... Thanks to exceptional access granted by Studio Ghibli to numerous film excerpts and rare Japanese television archives, we discover the life of Miyazaki as well as a profoundly ecological body of work that questions our relationship with the natural world and living beings. Thinkers like anthropologist Philippe Descola or philosopher Timothy Morton, as well as close associates, his son and film director Gorō Miyazaki, and Toshio Suzuki, his longtime producer and friend, bring us closer to this tireless, obsessive, and mysterious artist.

在父亲宫崎骏庞大成功压力之下，宫崎吾朗毅然走上导演之路，却并非一帆风顺，《地海传奇》遭遇失败，却也为冷战父子打开心结。因此在吉卜力工作室资深制作人铃木敏夫协调之下，得以让宫崎骏执笔剧本，宫崎吾朗再度执导筒，共同完成《虞美人盛开的山坡》。日本电视台NHK跟踪记录下拍摄《虞美人盛开的山坡》期间的父子工作状况——老爷子始终嘴硬“谁关心那种事”，吾朗完全不敢让父亲看到分镜头脚本，却还是听从父亲建议，暗自改掉女主角性格设定……父亲的倔强和儿子的努力，最真实的一幕幕记录下两代动画人的心血和情感。