HAYAO MIYAZAKI: ZERO FOR FATHERHOOD

The Mutant Frog Travelogue has posted yet another translation from Goro Miyazaki's blog and it is, as always, fraught with father-son drama. In this installment, Goro talks about how the only way he could know his dad was through his movies, and that while his dad may get a zero for fatherhood, he gets an A+ for directing animated films. An A+? Yay!

This is like MOMMIE DEAREST only it's unfolding before our eyes. And it's about a father instead of a mother. And they're Japanese animators. And no one's hit anyone with a wire hanger yet. But give it time. Give...it...time...