“I don’t understand anything about it, but thank you.” Hayao Miyazaki, who won an award at the Cannes Film Festival, reacted with a reaction that no one expected

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Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli won awards at the Cannes Film Festival

Even if you don’t really follow Seventh Art News, you certainly know that the Cannes Festival is currently in progress. The latter always takes place on the famous Croisette and is one of the most prestigious ceremonies in the industry, attracting extremely popular personalities every year. As usual, in addition to the “classic” awards, the Cannes Festival jury also uses the ceremony to award one Honorary Palme d’Or

This year the jury will award three Palms of Honor. The creator of “Star Wars” George Lucas is likely to receive one at the closing ceremony, as is the American actress Meryl StreepBut last May 20th it was the famous Hayao Miyazaki and his colleague Toshio Suzuki who received the famous award for the creation of Studio Ghibli. The Japanese animation studio, founded in 1985, is behind an incredible number of internationally successful classics such as: The castle in the sky, I could Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Awake or The Walking Castle of Howling, to recite none other than her. Even if the studio also attracted attention with the release of the animated film in 2023 The Boy and the Heron, For all the works that make up it, the jury of the Cannes Festival has decided to reward Studio Ghibli.

A hilarious reaction that no one expected

While the Palm of Honor was intended directly for the makers of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki were unable to come to the Croisette to collect it. However, they still sent Goro Miyazaki (Hayao’s son) to do it, and also shot a Thanks video. Contrary to what you might have expected, the latter was anything but classic:

As you can see in the video above, The two men behind Studio Ghibli decided to approach this event with a lot of humor. While Toshio Suzuki played the role of the humble and grateful person, Hayao Miyazaki decided to surprise everyone by pretending not to understand what was happening to him. In addition to saying: “I don’t understand any of this, but thanks“, the 83-year-old continued to put obstacles in the way of his colleague by interspersing a few comments during the video. So we could hear him feeling sorry for his son who collected the reward, and objecting to Toshio Suzuki when he revealed that Miyazaki had always wanted to broadcast his short films abroad. The Cannes Festival not only awarded him the Palme d’Or, but also screened four of his short films, three of which had never before left their home country of Japan. If you haven’t seen the Studio Ghibli films yet, know that many are still available in the Netflix catalog.