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Shiroi Hane
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Now that you mention it, I have a picture of Mamoru Hosoda smoking:
I've a vague memory of something similar for Morio Asaka too. |
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Sheleigha
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I'm glad that they are finally being more strict with smoking in countries like Japan. I used to see old 'making of' videos, and yeah there were ashtrays all over the studio! Recently CyberConnect 2 showed that they now have a designated indoor 'smoking room', which is still several years behind most of North America, but an improvement...
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walw6pK4Alo
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There's also being not constantly stressed out, which combined with the above also factors into mangaka deaths and constant illness. Not a month or two goes by that we don't hear about someone being on sick leave or even hospitalized. I've always felt that the Japanese diet and the need to walk so much in the cities was the only thing preventing massive heart attacks and cancer rates considering how overworked and overstressed the Japanese can be. |
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heavyweather
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I remember when Sky Blue was released theatrically here, and it did get a pretty big push - I saw a fairly positive review in Entertainment Weekly, and wanted to check it out. I don't think it ever got a DVD release here, oddly enough.
GKids has been doing some great stuff with international animated films. They also released Chico and Rita from Spain, and The Secret of Kells from Ireland, both of which are great films. |
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EireformContinent
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Actually Japanese diet isn't the best when it comes to cancer prevention- high amount of salt and seafood contaminated with everything you can find in the sea. They have a developed and sophisticated prevention program but since it's build around regular check-ups I can image that stressed and overworked people delay it until it's too late. |
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Shiroi Hane
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Interestingly, one of the .hack novels commented on how Tokuoka of the fictional CyberConnect smoked so much in his office (despite this being illegal in the near-future settings) that they had to regularly replace his monitor. |
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Its a bit easy to judge people for choosing to smoke, but I could see it being the drug of choice for animators and mangaka. In such a labor intensive, high pressure creative industry it would make sense that people would prefer a drug that has the weird combination of relaxation and stimulation (not to mention ready availability) that cigarettes provide. More broadly though, the sad truth is that if you're getting paid for something, no matter what you're doing, you're probably being exploited. It's as true for the creative industry as it is for hard forms of commodity production.
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MetalUpa1014
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The Chinese animated film Uproar in Heaven was really good. It's based off the classic epic Journey to the West which in turn was the inspiration for more well known anime like Dragon Ball. It may be from the 1960s, but the animation is still very charming and the soundtrack is heavily inspired by Beijing Opera productions. I highly recommend it for all fans of animation.
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ly000001
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I cringe now when I watch the DVD extras for his films and see him sitting there casually holding a cigarette 
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Maidenoftheredhand
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Not a director or even an animator but Seki Tomokazu always says that smoking is what gave him his voice. But whenever he says it I get really sad thinking how he is putting himself at risk.
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vanfanel
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I don't know if this applies to freelancers, but if you're a regular employee in Japan, you can't delay it; they come to your workplace in these mobile clinics-on-wheels and force you to take certain tests every year. It's illegal to refuse; you could be fired and also fined into oblivion if you don't do as you're told. Your medical data goes to the government and is also shared with your employer. |
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vanfanel
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IIRC, he smokes all through his interview on the R2 DVD of "Digimon: Our War Game." That's an extra I'm predicting we'll never, ever see stateside. Not sure I ever saw a photo of Dezaki without a cigarette in his hand. |
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Shiroi Hane
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Danny Choo often documents his disturbingly thorough annual checkup: http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/25689/Japan+Health+Care.html http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/1703/A+Day+in+Tokyo+5.html http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/1483/Health+Care+in+Japan.html
That picture actually is from an interview in the Digimon Movie Book. |
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reanimator
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Nice book. And out of print? |
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Tenchi
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My in-person, up close memory of Satoshi Kon was of him drawing a sketch of Mima from Perfect Blue for a fan at the world premiere of Millennium Actress at FantAsia in Montreal in 2001 and the thing I remember most, which was amusing in a way but eventually unfortunate for his health, was that he was smoking while he was drawing but his hands were full so he couldn't flick away the ash and was just letting it burn so by the time he'd finished the drawing, the cigarette was mostly ash that somehow stayed together and was kind of drooping down like an elephant's trunk.
I still find that memory amusing, sorry. |
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