Toshio

Studio Ghibli's surviving co-founders Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki are admittedly slow to adopt new tech.

Across the multiple films in both the East and West, Kayako and Toshio Saeki have taken a disturbingly high number of lives.

After her husband, Takeo, found out about the affair, he brutally murdered Kayako, their son Toshio, and their pet cat, then hid their bodies in the house.

According to Toshio Suzuki, the diversion allowed Miyazaki to return for a fresh start on the creation of Princess Mononoke.

In a Tokyo Broadcasting System program, televised on November 26, 2013, Toshio Suzuki mentioned that Hayao Miyazaki had preferred The Legend of Ashitaka as the title while Suzuki himself favoured Princess Mononoke.

Le Guin remembers this differently: "In August 2005, Mr Toshio Suzuki of Studio Ghibli came with Mr Hayao Miyazaki to talk with me and my son (who controls the trust which owns the Earthsea copyrights).

Toshio Suzuki noted that "70 to 80% of the film takes place at sea.