GKIDS, an American animation distributor, has released the first trailer for the animated film’How Do You Live?‘ by Hayao Miyazaki on September 6, 2023, giving fans a glimpse of the many scenes to expect from the film.
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Accompanying the trailer, the distributor also revealed the North American release date for “How Do You Live?“. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on December 8, 2023 with the title “The Boy and the Heron“.
The film was also released in IMAX at the same time in North America.
How You Live?released in Japan on July 14, 2023. It became Studio Ghibli’s first film to be released simultaneously in IMAX.
Joe Hisashi has been assigned to compose music for the anime film. The film will have 37 soundtracks including the theme song. Kenshi Yonezu performed the film’s theme song, “Chikyuugi”.
Soma Santoki voices the main character Mahito Maki.
Masaki Suda, Kou Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Keiko Takeshita, Jun Fubuki, Sawako Agawa, Karen Takizawa, Shinobu Otake, Jun Kunimura, Kaoru Kobayashi and Shohei Hino are among the talented actors voicing the characters in the film .
The plot of the film is described as follows:
The film’s plot is set in World War II. Mahito Maki, the main character, is a young boy who tragically lost his mother in a hospital fire. When his father remarried, they moved from Tokyo to a villa in the countryside. This mansion happened to be his mother’s hometown, and his father’s new wife was his mother’s sister. With complicated emotions, Masato is guided by a mysterious gray heron and finds himself entering another world.
How do you live? inspired by the 1937 novel of the same name by Yoshino Genzaburo. He added that this book is a story that means a lot to the main character in his movie.
The setting of the film is England during World War II. His mother’s illness affected 12-year-old book lover David. He begins to hear whispers in books and sees visions of a strange kingdom while tormented by loneliness. One day, he accidentally wandered into that world, guided by the voice of his deceased mother. Little Red Riding Hood gives birth to a werewolf after falling in love with a wolf, an ugly Snow White, and a cruel man who kidnaps children. Fairy tales creatures and mythical monsters are moving in this adorable yet scary fairy tale world. A mysterious journey and a young boy’s growth in conquering challenges in this extraterrestrial adventure story.
In October 2017, Studio Ghibli announced the film would be titled “How do you live?”. film studio director, Toshio Suzuki said that Miyazaki was making the film for his grandson as his way of saying: “Grandpa will soon move on to the next world but he will leave this film behind.”
In December 2020, Suzuki stated that the film was made without a deadline, similar to The story of Princess Kaguya (2013), took 8 years to implement.
He said that the animated film is half completed and production is moving faster due to COVID-19 restrictions requiring them to work from home and that the film will be 125 minutes long.
Source: Twitter