Opposite to standard perception, How Do You Stay? (aka The Boy and the Heron) will now not be Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s ultimate movie.
In a current crimson carpet interview on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, Studio Ghibli vp Junichi Nishioka instructed CBC reporter Eli Glasner that the enduring director has been coming into the workplace with new film concepts following The Boy and the Heron’s worldwide launch. This information comes after years of Studio Ghibli by no means releasing a single trailer to advertise Miyazaki’s ultimate movie, sharing solely the title and a single poster within the run-up to launch, and working on the intriguing premise of it being Miyazaki’s ultimate animated film.
“Different individuals say that this is perhaps [Miyazaki’s] final movie, however he doesn’t really feel that means in any respect,” Nishioka instructed the CBC. “He’s at present engaged on concepts for a brand new movie. He comes into his workplace daily and does that. This time, he’s not going to announce his retirement in any respect. He’s persevering with working simply as he has at all times performed.”
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As longtime Ghibli watchers might recall, Miyazaki’s earlier, supposed “ultimate” movies had been 2013’s The Wind Rises after which 2018’s animated brief movie Boro the Caterpillar. But right here we’re at present, tricked as soon as extra by this grasp of faux retirement.
Based on Anime Information Community, How Do You Stay? is a few boy named Mahito Maki who, after the dying of his mom within the firebombings of Tokyo throughout World Battle II, strikes along with his father to the countryside. Issues take a dramatic flip for Mahito when his father remarries his mom’s pregnant sister. It’s right here that Mahito meets a speaking heron who guarantees him that he can see his mom once more if he follows him into one other mysterious world, one which critics are praising for its visible inventiveness and beautiful animation.
When you’re nonetheless planning on going into Miyazaki’s newest “ultimate movie” with none information of what the movie appears like, I recommend you don’t click on on the trailer beneath. I’m instructed it’s fairly candy—like value paying $300 to snag the ultimate film ticket on Ticketmaster kinda candy.
Personally, I’m gonna decide to not watch the trailer as a result of I wanna watch How Do You Stay? with contemporary eyes. If Japanese audiences might do it, why can’t we?
