Exclusive: Watch Hayao Miyazaki Animate Final Shot Of 'The Wind Rises' In Documentary Clip

Tuesday December 9 is a great day to be a fan of Studio Ghibli. It's the day Mami Sunada's documentary, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, hits all your big digital VOD platforms: iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, Playstation, Xbox, and Vudu.

That means you can sit back and be a fly on the wall of one of the world's most incredible and influential animation studios as Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata work to finish The Wind Rises and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya. That in itself is an amazing opportunity. What's even more incredible is while Sunada's cameras were rolling, Miyazaki made the decision to retire from filmmaking.

Below, we've got an exclusive clip from The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness. In it, you can watch Miyazaki actually work. He animates the final shot of The Wind Rises, which he decided to change at the last second and, to him, it tied everything together. It's a bitter sweet, wonderful moment and – potentially – a piece of film history. Watch the exclusive Hayao Miyazaki documentary clip below, then read through our recent stroll through his entire feature career.

Thanks to GKIDS for giving us the opportunity to debut this exclusive clip from The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness.

Really, really cool stuff. And you can see the rest of the doc right now digitally on demand.

Here's the official synopsis of The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness:

Granted near-unfettered access to the notoriously insular Studio Ghibli, director Mami Sunada follows the three men who are the lifeblood of Ghibli – the eminent director Hayao Miyazaki, the producer Toshio Suzuki, and the elusive and influential "other director" Isao Takahata – over the course of a year as the studio rushes to complete two films, Miyazaki's The Wind Rises and Takahata's The Tale of The Princess Kaguya. The result is a rare "fly on the wall" glimpse of the inner workings of one of the world's most celebrated animation studios, and an insight into the dreams, passion and singular dedication of these remarkable creators.