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.

吉卜力过去曾数度采用新人担任导演，但因为宫崎骏导演自己的龟毛与讲究，一再介入作品製作的情况下，最后乾脆自己接掌下来拍的情况也是经常发生。然而这次在「阿丽埃蒂」，宫崎导演痛下决心一概不插手，除了自己负责的脚本工作外，完全交由过去在他旗下担任动画师的米林导演全权负责。另一方面，米林导演则是在没有宫崎导演帮助的情况下独挑大梁，在沉重压力下挑战电影製作。这次NHK即将播出的便是着眼在师徒两人内心纠葛，紧密采访长达400天的精彩纪录片！同时节目也将介绍吉卜力如何巧妙运用CG技术，以及号称“给绘画注入生命”─吉卜力电影在创作上的讲究及其中蕴藏的秘密。                                                                      　　导览节目的主持人是广末凉子。

纪录片《与宫崎骏和吉卜力工作室的2399天》将于今晚在日本NHK台播出，将展现他们为了《你想活出怎样的人生》的制作努力奋斗的七年。