How Do You Live? (film)

How Do You Live? (Japanese: 君たちはどう生きるか, Hepburn: Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka) is an upcoming Japanese animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli.[1] It is based on the 1937 novel by Yoshino Genzaburo.

How Do You Live?
Japanese君たちはどう生きるか
HepburnKimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka
Directed byHayao Miyazaki
Based onHow Do You Live?
by Yoshino Genzaburo
Produced byToshio Suzuki
Production
company
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Premise

The film centers around how the real-world novel How Do You Live? features prominently in the protagonist's life.[2]

Production

Miyazaki commenced animation work in July 2016, later confirmed by studio executive Toshio Suzuki.[2] With Miyazaki coming out of retirement, Studio Ghibli re-opened with many of the past collaborators working on the project.[3]

In October 2017, Studio Ghibli announced the film would be titled How Do You Live?.[1] Toshio Suzuki said that Miyazaki is working on the film for his grandson as his way of saying "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film".[4]

A release date has not been announced, although the film was at one point intended to be released near the time of the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2]

Suzuki said in August 2018 the projections were for 2021 or 2022 completion. In a late 2019 interview with NHK, Miyazaki stated that the film is not to be expected anytime soon; he said that in his younger age he used to produce 10 minutes of animation every month, but now his speed was reduced to 1 minute per month. As of October 2019, the film was confirmed to be 15% complete.[5] In May 2020, Suzuki told Entertainment Weekly that 60 animators were working on the film, and that an estimated 36 minutes had been completed after three years of production. Suzuki said, "We are still hand-drawing everything, but it takes us more time to complete a film because we're drawing more frames"; and they were "hoping it will finish in the next three years."[6] In December 2020, Suzuki stated that the production was working with no deadlines, similarly to The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013), which took eight years to make. He said that the animation was half-finished, that production was running faster due to COVID-19 restrictions requiring them to work at home, and that the film would be 125 minutes long.[7] He also revealed that Miyazaki wanted to adapt Earwig and the Witch (2020) while he was developing How Do You Live?. His son Gorō Miyazaki directed the adaptation instead.[8]

References
  1. "Hayao Miyazaki's Final Film Title is How Do You Live?". The Outerhaven. October 28, 2017. Archived from the original on February 21, 2018. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  2. "Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Reveals His 'Final' Film's Title, Release Window". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 24, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
  3. "Studio Ghibli reopens for Hayao Miyazaki's new film". Engadget. Archived from the original on December 14, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  4. "Details Revealed on Hayao Miyazaki's New Anime Film How Do You Live?". GeekTyrant. Archived from the original on February 13, 2018. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  5. "Hayao Miyazaki's Next Film Is 15% Complete After 3.5 Years". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 18, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
  6. "Studio Ghibli co-founder teases Hayao Miyazaki's next 'big, fantastical' film". Entertainment Weekly. May 13, 2020. Archived from the original on May 15, 2020. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  7. Harza, Adriana. "Ghibli Producer: Hayao Miyazaki's 'How Do You Live?' Film's Animation Is Half Finished". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 10, 2021. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
  8. Yanagabashi, Kan (December 28, 2020). "Ghibli Rebooted: Studio Goes 3D for New Movie "Earwig and the Witch"". Nippon.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
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