<p>The Japanese animation company Ghibli, which just won its second Oscar for “The Boy and the Heron,” has not yet revealed its future ambitions.</p>
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<p>Despite being the oldest filmmaker to be nominated in that category at 83, the film’s creator, Hayao Miyazaki, has no plans to stop creating movies, even if they are shorts rather than full-length features.</p>
<p>A longstanding associate claims that Miyazaki feels a little awkward about declaring a decade ago that he will no longer be making pictures, citing his advanced age.</p>
<p>Producer and Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki expressed sorrow following the most recent victory, saying, “He regrets having announced to the world he won’t make another film.”</p>
<p>A shout went up in the little, modest building that houses the studio on the outskirts of vast Tokyo when the Oscar was revealed early on Monday. Dozens of invited media members had crowded in to watch the event on a giant screen.</p>
<p>It was a historic day for Japanese cinema as “Godzilla Minus One” became the country’s first winner in the best visual effects category.</p>
<p>The Japanese media praised both the Godzilla and Ghibli movies, pointing out that the nation hadn’t won two Oscars in a row since 2009. The widely read Yomiuri newspaper on Tuesday announced “a new chapter in the history of Japanese filmmaking” in an editorial.</p>
<p>The film “Oppenheimer,” which took home seven Oscars, including best picture, had a strong Japanese influence. An American scientist working on the atomic bomb is the main subject of the biopic. Japan has not yet seen the release of the movie.</p>
<p>The moving movie “Perfect Days,” directed by Wim Wenders and following a sanitation worker, was nominated for an international feature film award but was not chosen. In May of last year, Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, who plays a kind and lonesome guy who takes pictures and looks after plants, won best actor at Cannes.</p>
<p>The short animation “War is Over,” which took home the prize, was influenced by the songs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. At the Academy Awards, their son Sean, who co-wrote the movie, acknowledged his Japanese mother.</p>
<p>According to Suzuki, Miyazaki did not attend the studio celebration and instead celebrated his Oscar triumph in solitude in his atelier. Miyazaki’s famous beard was chopped off, and Suzuki said, “He doesn’t want to look important,” when asked why.</p>
<p>According to Suzuki, he took some time to consider why Ghibli’s most recent picture was picked, questioning if it had anything to do with the film’s allusions to the Old Testament. The plot revolves on a small child who must cope with the sickness and death of his mother as well as the bond he forms with a talking bird. Suzuki said that Ghibli’s hand-drawn depictions of the bird’s transformation were superior than computer visuals.</p>
<p>Ghibli opted for a low-key release strategy for the picture, which was ten years in the works and came out after Miyazaki had purportedly retired, rather than doing much advertising for it.</p>
<p>According to Suzuki, “We felt it was OK to make something we really wanted to make.”</p>