Hayao Miyazaki’s twelfth film, titled How Do You Live? is expected next year on cinema screens. The master of Japanese animation will therefore sign his return ten years after Le Vent se Rève.
Moviegoers are hoping for the comeback by Hayao Miyazaki, since 2013. Fortunately, the wait seems to be coming to an end since Ghibli studios have announced the filmmaker’s return to the big screen in 2023. Next year, the 81-year-old director will present How do you live? (Kimitachi wa do ikiru ka in original version). In addition, the Japanese release date has been announced. The animated feature film is expected on July 14, 2023. For the moment, no French date has been formalized, although there is a chance that the film will be released on our screens during the summer period.
The return of Hayao Miyazaki
Ghibli studios also unveiled a first preview of the animated feature film by sharing its poster on social networks. As you can see below, it is an anthropomorphic character, the hallmark of the director to whom we owe Spirited away (2001). On the script side, the feature film will tell the psychological evolution of a teenager through interactions with his friends and his uncle. In short, an initiatory and fantastic journey, two themes that have always founded Hayao Miyazaki’s universe.
The new feature film from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli has been announced! HOW DO YOU LIVE (tentative title) opens in theaters in Japan on July 14, 2023. https://t.co/fHnLM6epTS
Studio Ghibli has announced Hayao Miyazaki’s upcoming animated feature film.
Hayao Miyazaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli. Founded in 1985, this production company enabled him to make numerous animated films, including The castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) and Porco Rosso (1992). These films then enjoyed critical and commercial success in Japan. As for Princess Mononokethe feature film was the first animated film to win the Japan Academy Prize for film of the year, and when it was released in 1997, became the biggest commercial success in Japanese box office history.
Then will follow the cult Spirited Away which will become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history, before winning the Oscar for best animated film. Between 2004 and 2013, Hayao Miyazaki directed The Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo on the cliff (2008) and The wind picks up (2013), before retiring from feature films. However, the filmmaker, considered one of the most accomplished in the history of animation, will come out of retirement to work on How do you live? Since 2016, he has been working to adapt the book by Genzaburo Yoshino, published in 1937. A work of goldsmith whose result is expected this summer in dark rooms.
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