Nippon TV has the sole broadcast rights for the films of Hayao Miyazaki, which means whenever you watch his movies on TV you have to endure commercial breaks.
NHK has the lock on TV documentaries about the reclusive animator. The public broadcaster hangs around whenever he makes a film and then edits the footage after that film is released. The doc for his latest, "Kaze Tachinu," will be shown on "Professional: Shigoto no Ryuji" ("Professional: A Style of Work"; NHK-G, Mon., 10 p.m.).
"Kaze" is the 72-year-old director's first film in five years, and was inspired in part by the Great East Japan Earthquake. He admits to NHK that he wanted to do something completely different this time, and betrays anxiety that his audience may not appreciate the way he tells this particular story, which is about a real-life person.
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