


Almost there,” Studio Ghibli’s chairman Koji Hoshino said at a press conference for the launch of Ghibli Park in Japan. The 81-year-old is reportedly on track to finish How Do You Live? soon. And that is around the time that I started working on Earwig too, and everyone came back,” the filmmaker’s son Goro Miyazaki shared in an interview. So he started with making a short film for the museum, and then he went on to making his new feature-length film. “He needed to create something in order to live, basically. However, he revealed last year that he decided to give up retirement to make more films. Two years later, one of the movies, titled How Do You Live? is almost finished.įor those unaware, Ghibli’s 2013 film The Wind Rises was supposed to be Miyazaki’s last. ORIGINAL STORY (October 28, 2022): Hayao Miyazaki, the brain behind Studio Ghibli, announced in 2020 that the studio was working on two new movies. We have no doubt that it will be well worth the wait as Miyazaki is regarded as one of the most innovative animators of our time. While the 81-year-old director flirted with the idea of retirement in 2013 after releasing The Wind Rises, he admitted that he “need to create something in order to live.” The studio also debuted artwork from the film, introducing a painterly charcoal-and-watercolor sketch of a seemingly anthropomorphic bird.Īccording to producer Toshio Suzuki, Miyazaki returned to filmmaking to create one last movie for his grandson and is deliberately taking his time with his latest venture as just 36 minutes of animation reportedly took over three years to produce.
