Former Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura reported on Sunday that there was a plan for the late Ghibli director Isao Takahata to direct a short in the new Modest Heroes anime anthology film.
Modest Heroes (Chiisana Eiyū: Kani to Tamago to Tōmei Ningen) is made of three shorts, but Nishimura said, “There were actually four shorts, and there were discussions on director Takahata making one of them.”
Studio Ponoc describes the shorts in Modest Heroes as “tales of modest heroes of our times.”
He noted that the film’s three directors all trained under Takahata’s tutelage, and therefore he thinks “director Takahata lives on in these three shorts.”
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Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1 – Modest Heroes: Official Trailer