Lost footage of Hideaki Anno's wedding?

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Lost footage of Hideaki Anno's wedding?

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Postby asushinfan » Fri Jan 16, 2026 1:33 am

I recently came across a thread on this forum from 2005 discussing a Kodansha webpage that claimed to have videos from Hideaki Anno's wedding to Moyoco. According to the description of one of the videos, it apparently had footage of their wedding vows and them cutting the cake, as well as Hayao Miyazaki's comments that he gave at the wedding among other things. The links to download the .asx and .ram files still seem to work, but they don't actually play on any player I've tried. They also seem to be too small to be a full video file. Does anyone somehow have a saved copy of this footage, or even remember seeing it? Some EvaGeeks members seem to have watched it, but that was over 20 years ago. This video seems to be extremely rare and I can't find uploads of it anywhere else or even other people discussing it. As this was a video released to the public and apparently up on the internet for at least a few years, I'm really hoping at least one person has a copy of it somewhere.

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Postby kuribo-04 » Thu Jan 22, 2026 6:00 pm

This is actually interesting.
Historic footage if real.
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Postby asushinfan » Tue Feb 03, 2026 8:18 pm

I have some updates, but I still haven't found a copy of the original video.

The video was apparently uploaded to this Youtube channel in 2021, before being taken down by a copyright claim from Moyoco Anno herself:

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Archive.org was unfortunately unable to archive the video back when the page was archived.

We do have time stamps from the description of everyone who was featured in the video:
2:30 Hayao Miyazaki
4:00 Erika Sakurazawa
4:36 Santa Inoue
6:15 Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
7:34 Erika Sakurazawa
7:47 Tatsuya Egawa
9:17 Naoko Takeuchi
9:22 Fujisawa Tooru
9:28 Yamada Naito
9:45 Katsuya Terada
9:57 Kouichi Masuno and Kyuuta Minami
10:34 Kentarou Takekumi
11:15 Tori Miki
11:35 Sekaiichi Asakura

There are also two extant screencaps from people who have seen this upload:



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The latter is from a blog post that briefly mentions the video and talks about how Miyazaki started off his speech as the guest of honor by saying that Anno looks clean now, but was very dirty when they first met.

There's also this:



So, we know that a modern copy of the video exists, and that people have seen it, and that it got big enough that Moyoco had it removed. This was only 5 years ago, so someone must still have it.


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