Japanese line up to watch Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film

Charso Press: According to the Guardian, speculation about the anime “How do you live?” It has been in the news for months as it is expected to be the last film by the 82-year-old Japanese man, who spent five years making it after changing his decision to retire.

The famous Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki co-founded and produced the Oscar-winning anime Ghost Town (2003) as well as My Neighbor Totoro and Castle, took the unusual step of keeping details of the anime’s plot under wraps. picked up and released this film without a trailer and advertising limited to a poster that showed a sketch of a bird-like creature with white and blue feathers.

No synopsis of Miyazaki’s new work has been published.

While the film’s title is taken from a best-selling 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino, Studio Ghibli confirmed that the plot is an original story by Miyazaki.

The increased interest in Yoshino’s book among fans trying to decipher clues about Miyazaki’s anime and its publication prompted the publishers to reprint the book and release an illustrated adaptation. This novel is about a boy who goes to the village with his father after his mother dies in a fire during the Japanese war. There he meets a hen who takes him to an alternate world, where the secret of his mother’s death is slowly revealed.

Isaku Kimura, a student who was among Miyazaki’s fans, said after watching the movie, “It’s not like I feel like there’s anything special about this anime, just because it’s his last work, but I definitely saw a lot of Miyazaki’s characteristics in the movie, and it was exciting.”

Valeria Matveeva, an English teacher from Russia, also talked about the anime “How do you live?” “This movie was a crazy mix of all the Studio Ghibli movies I’d seen before,” he said. The film is scary at times, but also magical. “Because there was no publicity about the film before the release, I didn’t know what to think about it, but it was good.”

“Hahiyao Miyazaki” had announced his retirement several times during his career, and during his more than 50 years of artistic career, he has achieved many successes like “Nick Park”, the animator of the Walt Disney Company, and is considered one of the most famous and influential animators in the history of cinema.

Born in Tokyo, he began his animation career in 1961, working as a design artist for the animated film Gulliver’s Travels Over the Moon. He continued to work in various roles in the animation industry during that decade until he released his first feature film, Lupine 3: The Castle of Cagliostro, in 1979.

Although Miyazaki’s films had long been commercial and critical successes in Japan, he was largely unknown in the West until Miramax released Princess Mononoke, which broke Japanese box office records and became the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards.

In 1997, Miyazaki announced his retirement from directing in order to make room for younger talents, after making the movie “Princess Mononoke”, which was one of the most successful animations at that time, but in 2001, he returned to the field of directing and made the movie “City of Ghosts”, which became the world’s best-selling animated film and won the Berlin Golden Bear in 2002 and the Oscar in 2003.

In 2013, he returned to the cinemas with the controversial animated film “The Wind Blows”, which caused many protests for him, to the point where he was accused of supporting the manufacturer of warplanes that cause war, but in the end, this film managed to make it to the final nominees of the Oscars and won the award for the best foreign film of the year at the Golden Globe Awards.