The release date and a first visual of the long-awaited new film by Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki, entitled “How do you live?”, were unveiled this Tuesday, December 13 on Twitter.
Ten years after his last film, the master of animation will soon be back. the Studio Ghibli has just announced the release date on Japanese screens of Hayao Miyazaki’s new feature film, entitled “How do you live?” : July 14, 2023. For the moment the release date in France has not yet been revealed.
The latest feature film signed Hayao Miyazaki, “The Wind Rises”, was released in 2013. The director of “My Neighbor Totoro” or “Princess Mononoke”, now 81, said it would be his very last film as as director, before changing his mind three years later. In March 2018, he unveiled a short film, “Boro la Chenille” lasting 14 minutes. It is therefore with great impatience that fans of his poetic universe await the arrival of “How do you live?”, The first poster of which was posted on Tuesday, December 13 on Twitter.
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Inspired by a classic of Japanese literature
Its Japanese title is borrowed from a novel by the Japanese writer and journalist Genzaburo Yoshino, published in 1937 in the archipelago, and released in France under the title “And you, how will you live?”
This classic of Japanese literature, which follows the adventures of a young 15-year-old boy and whose author was known for his attachment to pacifism, just like Hayao Miyazaki, had already been the subject of a manga adaptation, published in 2017 in Japan.
Extremely little information about the film’s content has so far circulated. However, Hayao Miyazaki had indicated in an interview granted to the Japanese daily Asahi Shinbun that his film should show “how this book was essential in the life of the main character”.
“What I can tell you, from the little that I have seen of the film’s images, is that I am very struck by how much, even at that age, he retains a flamboyant imagination and richness. His creative energy remains as impressive as ever,” the filmmaker’s son, Goro Miyazaki, told Allociné a few months ago.
Hayao Miyazaki enjoyed worldwide success for his works such as “Spirited Away”, released in 2001, which won an Oscar for best animated film and the highest grossing Japanese box office for nearly two decades, before becoming to be dethroned at the end of 2020 by another Japanese animated film, “Demon Slayer”.
Studio Ghibli, which he co-founded with director Isao Takahata, who died in 2018, opened a vast park in Japan in early November dedicated to his universe.