Fans have received some rare potential insight into Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s upcoming film, with his son Goro Miyazaki revealing some details at a recent event.
Via Oricon, Goro Miyazaki attended the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, for a preview of the second part of the special The Boy and the Heron exhibition. There, he revealed that his father had started the hobby of creating panorama boxes to pass the time during the film’s seven-year production but had only been basing them on his past movies. Goro told the media in attendance, “I’d tell him, ‘Make some for future projects. Only making them for your past stuff is boring.’ He’s making some now though.” Goro then added, “I don’t know if it’ll actually be for his next film, but it’s looking like an action-adventure-type movie, nostalgic and reminiscent of the old days.”
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Goro arrived freshly back from the Cannes Film Festival in France, where he had accepted the honorary Palme d’Or on behalf of Studio Ghibli. This marked the first time in history the award has been given to a group rather than an individual, and it follows numerous plaudits received for its latest feature movie The Boy and the Heron. During the festival, audiences received a thank-you clip from Toshio Suzuki and Miyazaki. Goro also shared additional comments from his father, such as his belief that “the golden age of anime has passed.”
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The Oscar Award-winning The Boy and the Heron recently received a 4K UHD home entertainment release date from GKIDS and Shout! Studios, marking another first-of-its-kind for Studio Ghibli. GKIDS describes the film: “After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito’s new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself.”
The Boy and the Heron
A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
- Release Date
- December 8, 2023
- Cast
- Soma Santoki , Masaki Suda , Takuya Kimura , Aimyon
- Runtime
- 2 hours 4 minutes
- Production Company
- Studio Ghibli, Toho Company
Source: Oricon
