Studio Ghibli at the moment introduced that famend filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki will launch a brand new movie titled How Do You Reside in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2023.
Toho is releasing the pic Japan, which shall be Miyazaki’s first feature-length movie in 10 years. His final launch was the 2013 World Conflict II movie The Wind Rises, a fictionalized biographical movie about Japanese aviator Jiro Horikoshi.
The studio didn’t announce any additional particulars in regards to the pic, nevertheless it did share a sketch on its social media accounts to accompany the information. The picture seemed to be a hen with white and blue feathers.
In an interview with the New York Occasions final yr, Miyazaki stated the pic relies on Genzaburo Yoshino’s 1937 e book of the identical title. The story follows a teenage boy in Tokyo who strikes in together with his uncle after his father dies. The novel is claimed to be one of many director’s favorites.
Studio Ghibli co-founder and producer Toshio Suzuki has described the movie as “fantasy on a grand scale.” When requested by the Occasions why he determined to return to filmmaking to direct the movie, Miyazaki merely answered: “As a result of I wished to.”
Miyazaki has retired a number of instances all through his profession, the primary being within the late Nineteen Nineties. Nevertheless, a yr later, he returned to direct the 2002 Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli movie Spirited Away.
Earlier this yr, Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki, Suzuki, and Isao Takahata co-founded in 1985, collaborated with LucasFilm on an animated quick titled Zen. The movie was launched on Disney + in November and centered on Grogu, the breakout Mandalorian character recognized to many as Child Yoda.
A stage adaptation of Miyazaki’s traditional 1988 movie My Neighbour Totoro by composer Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Shakespeare Firm additionally formally opened at London’s Barbican Theater in October.