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Opposite to common perception, How Do You Stay? (aka The Boy and the Heron) will now not be Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s closing movie.
In a latest purple carpet interview on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, Studio Ghibli vice chairman Junichi Nishioka advised 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 closing 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 closing animated film.
“Different folks say that this may be [Miyazaki’s] final movie, however he doesn’t really feel that manner in any respect,” Nishioka advised the CBC. “He’s at the moment engaged on concepts for a brand new movie. He comes into his workplace every single day 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 all the time executed.”
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As longtime Ghibli watchers could recall, Miyazaki’s earlier, supposed “closing” movies have been 2013’s The Wind Rises after which 2018’s animated brief movie Boro the Caterpillar. But right here we’re as we speak, tricked as soon as extra by this grasp of faux retirement.
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Based on Anime Information Community, How Do You Stay? is a couple of 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 gorgeous animation.
If you happen to’re nonetheless planning on going into Miyazaki’s newest “closing movie” with none information of what the movie seems to be like, I counsel you don’t click on on the trailer beneath. I’m advised it’s fairly candy—like price 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?