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Steve Alpert is a former senior executive at Studio Ghibli. He published a memoir detailing his work in the studio in 2020.
Biography
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In 2020, Alpert published Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man, a memoir about his co-residence with Miyazaki and experiences working at the animation studio.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The cover features Castorp, a character from The Wind RisesTemplate:Nbsp(2013) based on and voiced by Alpert.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". It was originally published in 2016 as a Japanese-language edition titled I Am a Gaijin: The Man Who Sold Ghibli to the World.Template:Efn Stone Bridge Press published the English version and included it in a bundle on Japanese culture in 2022.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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