Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (2017) — watch online on iFILM — is a documentary directed by Kaku Arakawa for NHK. Filmed in the months after the legendary Studio Ghibli founder announced his retirement, it catches him doing the one thing he said he was done with: drawing.

Miyazaki was 72 when he walked away from feature films in 2013. The camera follows him back into the studio anyway — experimenting with CG animation he'd publicly dismissed for years, debating younger animators, filling page after page. The film is less a tribute and more an honest portrait of a man constitutionally unable to stop. Stream Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki online on iFILM.