Studio ghibli sets new hayao miyazaki film ‘how do you live’ for summer 2023 release 

Studio Ghibli today announced that renowned filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki will release a new film titled _How Do You Live _in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2023. Toho is releasing the pic Japan,

which will be Miyazaki’s first feature-length film in 10 years. His last release was the 2013 World War II film _The Wind Rises_, a fictionalized biographical film about Japanese aviator

Jiro Horikoshi. The studio did not announce any further details about the pic, but it did share a sketch on its social media accounts to accompany the news. The image appeared to be a bird

with white and blue feathers. In an interview with the New York Times last year, Miyazaki said the pic is based on Genzaburo Yoshino’s 1937 book of the same name. The story follows a teenage

boy in Tokyo who moves in with his uncle after his father dies. The novel is said to be one of the director’s favorites. WATCH ON DEADLINE Studio Ghibli co-founder and producer Toshio

Suzuki has described the film as “fantasy on a grand scale.” When asked by the Times why he decided to return to filmmaking to direct the film, Miyazaki simply answered: “Because I wanted

to.” Miyazaki has retired several times throughout his career, the first being in the late 1990s. However, a year later, he returned to direct the 2002 Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli film

_Spirited Away_. Earlier this year, Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki, Suzuki, and Isao Takahata co-founded in 1985, collaborated with LucasFilm on an animated short titled _Zen. _The film was

released on Disney + in November and centered on Grogu, the breakout _Mandalorian_ character known to many as Baby Yoda. A stage adaptation of Miyazaki’s classic 1988 film _My Neighbour

Totoro_ by composer Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Shakespeare Company also officially opened at London’s Barbican Theater in October.