The director of the Oscar-winning film “Ghostbusters” and co-founder of the Ghibli animation studio Hayao Miyazaki is returning to work after a 10-year hiatus.

Miyazaki’s latest work, The Wind Gets Stronger, was released on July 20, 2013. The source of the plot was the manga of the same name authored by Miyazaki himself, published in the magazine Model Graphix in 2009, as well as the story of the writer Tatsuo Hori, written in 1936-1937. The titles of the film and the story quote one of the lines of Paul Valeri’s poem “Cemetery by the Sea” (in the Ukrainian translation it sounds like “Strong wind! .. So, try to live!”).

Then, in 2013, Hayao Miyazaki declared that this would be his last work producing full-length animated films, but at the age of 81, the director did return to create How Do You Live?

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The film will tell the story of 15-year-old Kopper from Tokyo, who has lost his father and embarks on a philosophical journey to learn more about how the world works.

how do you live / How Do You Live? will be released in Japan on June 14, 2023. The original title of the animated work is Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka, but the tentative English translation comes from the original 1973 novel by writer Genzaburo Yoshino.

Apart from Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki, the names of the other staff members who will be working on the film have not yet been released.

• Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most famous Japanese animators and animation directors in the world. He is often called the “Walt Disney of Asia”, although the animator himself does not like this comparison. In Japan, Miyazaki became famous thanks to the full-length animated masterpieces “Hunting from the Valley of the Wind” (1984), “Laputa Castle in the Sky” (1986), “My Neighbor Totoro” (1988). In the West, he became widely known after the release in 1997 of his film “Princess Mononoke”. In 2003, Miyazaki’s work “Ghosts” won the Academy Award for the best animated film of the year.