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Studio Ghibli co-founder, director and animator Isao Takahata has passed away.<\/p>\n
Animation fans are mourning the loss of legendary anime creator Isao Takahata, who passed away on April 5th. Mr Takahata is known for directing cult classic Grave of The Fireflies<\/em> (1988), his first film for Studio Ghibli, a production company he began with fellow director Hayao Miyazaki. Before co-founding Ghibli, Takahata had worked in film for several years as both assistant director (on films such as The Biggest Duel In The Underworld<\/em>) and director (Panda! Go Panda!<\/em> and Jarinko Chie<\/em>).<\/p>\n Following Fireflies<\/em>, Takahata’s films would include Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, Winter Days<\/em> and The Tale Of Princess Kaguya<\/em>, his final project in 2013, and one which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 87th Academy Awards for 2014.<\/p>\n Isao Takahata was 82 when he passed away. He had reportedly been undergoing treatment for lung cancer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Studio Ghibli co-founder, director and animator Isao Takahata has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":52853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",928,523,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata-768x433.jpg",640,361,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata-720x406.jpg",640,361,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",928,523,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",928,523,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",928,523,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",540,304,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",24,14,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",48,27,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",96,54,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",150,85,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata.jpg",300,169,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/isao_takahata-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/grave-of-the-fireflies-1200-1200-675-675-crop-000000-720x405.jpg\")