Anybody know of any good historical books about Unit 731 in China during World War Two?
miya-san is based
Please keep the Miyazaki pessimism going.
>>7838397
Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Then there's a documentary about the making of Princess Mononoke but I've never found it available for download anywhere, there's only a bad quality version on dailymotion.
I need to go so I can't post more right now.
Anyway, his philosophy for making movies can be summarized thus: "I feel the world is destroying itself and there's nothing we can do, but I make movies for the young, and I can't tell them that there's no hope."
>>7838419
Much appreciated.
>>7839562
He's like a film noir protagonist.
This is hilarious, I thought he was a really positive guy and that the 'anime was a mistake' etc. pictures were edited. This is great now I actually want to watch his shit
Here's the Mononoke doc. I might screencap best quotes from it when I've got the time
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/user/SakugaArchive/search/mononoke/1
I don't know this old man but he seems like a top lad.
bumping for more Miyazaki
more bitter old man pics pls
>>7840255
No it's a different documentary he can't find
>>7839728
Holy shit that's amazing. Dude's a black hole of crushing clear-eyed truth.
So the dad of anime is secretly the Japanese Cioran?
>>7840513
This man is savage.
the entire thing
pure gold
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuuegd_princess-mononoke-the-making-part-29-1_creation
What an odd guy
>>7838309
Miyazaki is an edgelord, that's the one thing I never expected
The Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace might have what you're looking for
>>7841651
You mean Gravities rainbow?
Did you ironically confuse the two
>>7841605
He doesn't even come off like an edgelord to me, for some reason. He's just really matter-of-fact.
>>7841908
>He doesn't even come off like an edgelord to me, for some reason. He's just really matter-of-fact.
This, if anyone else was saying it I would be dismissive but for whatever reason i'm not with him.
>>7838309
Start with the greeks
Came here for more Miyazaki sayings and I was not let down.
>>7843110
What happened to this man to make him this way?
>>7843139
Well WWII was bound to have that effect on some people.
>>7843139
>be a kid during WW2
>witness the starvation and desolation
>witness the atomic bombs
>experience the post-war destruction of traditional japanese values
>see the destruction of said values lead to massive economic growth, ravaging the nature you've always loved
>start making animated movies to give voice to the turmoil in your heart
>see the art you're passionate about be polluted with hentai, futa, and god knows what else
>see that the next generation nor the one after don't give a shit about nature either, or traditional values, nor have they learned the lesson of WW2
>see the world tumbling towards ecological suicide and WW3
>you have no mouth with which to scream, only animated movies
>>7843214
"Traditional values" is a fucking spook, values have changed thousands of times in every single society/civilization. Let me guess, you're from /r9k/ or /pol/?
>>7843242
stop kneejerking m8, it's Miyazaki who likes the traditional japanese values, my opinion on them is not relevant and not discernible from my post either
>>7843242
>values have changed thousands of times in every single society/civilization.
Not that guy, but how does this make "traditional values," a spook? He's just saying Miyazaki believes Japan had better values pre-WWII.
Also, calm down.
>>7843177
>>7843214
>>7843238
I found this article a while ago. There is a part about Evangelion and how its popularity relates to the post-WWII nation. It describes Japan as "a nation of permanent children."
You guys might find it interesting.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/let-s-die-together/305776/
Didn't his WW2 film basically end with the two Japanese engineers 'the whole world is going to hate Japan for what it did, but that's what happens when you lose a war'?
>>7843308
thanks, reading it right now
I'd read a story with miyazaki meeting an optimistic young woman and her autistic brother and walking with them around tokyo for a night
less than 6 months later, an enormous earthquake caused a tsunami which hit Japan, killing 15 thousand people and doing 230 billion dollars in damages
>>7843242
Japan was an exceedingly noble culture prior to the surrender in WW2
Now they make cartoons about little girls with penises
>>7843467
S A V A G E
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Thank you based Japanese man
>>7843242
a spook that which is best obeyed
lemme guess you support Bernie/Clinton
>>7844086
You sound spooked
Lemme guess you vote
>>7843467
He probably smiled a little that day
>>7845143
How'd he even get into animating? I can't imagine him as a child, filled with any kind of hope.
>>7844086
>how dare he challenge my ideology!
>he must be from <opposing ideology>!
Someone call the ghostbusters
>>7840513
I, too, dream of an Earth reclaimed by Gaia.
>>7844151
Only a little, Anon-chan. Only a little.
>>7839728
>work 50% of your life for other people animating and the chances of going out and making your own studio or big production are slim to none
the worst part is they're making somebody elses dreams come true slaving away for it while being technically talented but maybe not creative, i saw this and they have a massive studio, feel bad for them all. atleast if you're working at a monetary focused job you know what you're there for.
>>7845143
that last line
btw once you know this side of him, you'll appreciate his movies a lot better
the first time I saw them, I thought they were refreshing and had an unique take on lots of things, but didn't think much past that
after getting into his personality and worldviews, I rewatched them and they open up in a very different way. he really pours his soul into his movies, and the effect is pretty poignant.
also people say spirited away is his best work but princess mononoke is the movie where he put in the most blood, sweat and tears. it lot of ways the movie is him, laid bare
>>7845642
>they have a massive studio
not really, disney and dreamworks have, without exaggerration, like 4-5 times the animators/artists they have
>>7838309
Barenblatt, Daniel. A Plague Upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation, HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 0-06-018625-9.
Barnaby, Wendy. The Plague Makers: The Secret World of Biological Warfare, Frog Ltd, 1999. ISBN 1-883319-85-4, ISBN 0-7567-5698-7, ISBN 0-8264-1258-0, ISBN 0-8264-1415-X.
Cook, Haruko Taya; Cook, Theodore F., Japan at war: an oral history, New York: New Press: Distributed by Norton, 1992. ISBN 1-56584-014-3. Cf. Part 2, Chapter 6 on Unit 731 and Tamura Yoshio.
Endicott, Stephen and Hagerman, Edward. The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea, Indiana University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-253-33472-1.
Gold, Hal. Unit 731 Testimony, Charles E Tuttle Co., 1996. ISBN 4-900737-39-9.
Grunden, Walter E., Secret Weapons & World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science, University Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN 0-7006-1383-8.
Handelman, Stephen and Alibek, Ken. Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World—Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It, Random House, 1999. ISBN 0-375-50231-9, ISBN 0-385-33496-6.
Harris, Robert and Paxman, Jeremy. A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Random House, 2002. ISBN 0-8129-6653-8.
Harris, Sheldon H. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932–45 and the American Cover-Up, Routledge, 1994. ISBN 0-415-09105-5, ISBN 0-415-93214-9.
Lupis, Marco. Orrori e misteri dell'Unità 731: la "fabbrica" dei batteri killer, La Repubblica, 14 aprile 2003, on line too.
Mangold, Tom; Goldberg, Jeff, Plague wars: a true story of biological warfare, Macmillan, 2000. Cf. Chapter 3, Unit 731.
Moreno, Jonathan D. Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0-415-92835-4.
Nie, Jing Bao, et al. Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics (2011) excerpt and text search
Williams, Peter. Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II, Free Press, 1989. ISBN 0-02-935301-7.
>>7846116
>brazil is a big country
>well actually Russia is like 4 times bigger
pls bump this so I can add more images to it when I've got the time
the world deserves miya-san's sayings
>>7847088
Aight
Japanese Max Payne
>>7838309
See if you can find this somewhere, it's a short documentary on Unit 731 through two differing, historically revised perspectives
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1007910/
Great fucking thread, thanks miyazaki-poster. I really want to meet him, and just have a nice conversation with him. I haven't seen all his movies but I knew there was something to him, a quality an artist has.
>>7846120
...and back to the thread.
this thread brings me joy.
if anyone with access to cool private trackers and such could check and see if they can find the making of princess mononoke-documentary, I'd be eternally grateful. the one on dailymotion is bad quality and missing a lot of content. I've tried everything in my disposal and haven't found it
