The new film by acclaimed Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki, “Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka” (How do you live?), will be released in July 2023, the film’s distributor Toho announced Tuesday.
The 81-year-old filmmaker’s most recent feature film will be released in Japanese theaters on July 14, the film company said at a press conference held today to announce its planned releases for next year and picked up by media such as the local agency Kyodo news.
Coinciding with the announcement, both the producer and the animation studio Studio Ghibli, producer of the film, published the first promotional poster for the film on their profiles on the social network Twitter, an illustration of a bird with white and blue plumage and a beak. yellow made by Miyazaki himself.
The film is inspired by a homonymous novel published in 1937 and the work of children’s author Genzaburo Yoshino, which narrates the psychological growth of a teenager through interactions with his friends and his uncle.
Despite keeping the title of the original work, the film has a genuine script written by Miyazaki, although influenced by the filmmaker’s reading of the book, according to Studio Ghibli.
“After speaking with producer Toshio Suzuki, I have a feeling that it will be a youth fantasy story,” Toho director Minami Ichikawa said during the appearance.
This will be Miyazaki’s first feature film in ten years, since the 2013 release of “Kaze Tachinu” (The Wind Rises), and the twelfth feature film of his career, which includes works such as the Oscar-winning “Spirited Away” ( Spirited Away, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, 2001) or “Princess Mononoke” (Princess Mononoke, 1997).
Miyazaki announced his retirement in 2013, after the premiere of his previous film, but in 2017 he would surprise by announcing his return to the industry with this new work, shrouded in mystery, on which he has been working for the last five years.