(Tokyo) The new animated film by famous Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki will be released next summer in Japan, its distributor has announced, ten years after the previous feature film by the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, who came out of retirement for this new project.
Considered one of the masters of Japanese animation, the director of My Neighbor Totoro Where Princess Mononokenow 81, announced after the 2013 release of The wind picks up that he would no longer make animated films… before reconsidering his decision three years later.
The new film he has since been working on will be released in Japan on July 14, 2023, Japanese production company Toho announced on Tuesday, posting a poster of the film depicting a white bird on Twitter.
Its Japanese title, already known, 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, whose author was known for his attachment to pacifism, just like Hayao Miyazaki, was also the subject of a manga adaptation, published in 2017 in Japan.
Miyazaki has enjoyed worldwide acclaim for his works like Spirited awayreleased in 2001, Oscar for best animated film and paraded at the top of the Japanese box office for nearly two decades, before being 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.