How Do You Live? (film)

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How Do You Live? (film)
File:How Do you Live? poster.jpg
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by Toshio Suzuki
Based on How Do You Live?
by Yoshino Genzaburo
Production
company
Country Japan
Language Japanese

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 of the same name by Yoshino Genzaburo.

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

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