“At the start of this project, Miyazaki came to me and asked me, ‘This is going to be about my story, is that going to be O.K.?’ I just nodded,” Suzuki recalled with the matter-of-factness of someone who’s learned it would be futile to stand in the way of the director.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/movies/hayao-miyzaki-the-boy-and-the-heron.html