The film festival takes place from November 2 to 5
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The Karenmi Film Festival’s Gems 2023 event announced on Tuesday that Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron (Kimi-tachi wa Dō) Ikiru ka, or literally How Do You Live?) will air on the 4th. November at 4:30 p.m. EDT at Silverspot Cinema 12.
The festival will take place November 2-5 at Karenmi Dade College.
The Boy and the Heron earned a cumulative total of 8,333,397,800 yen (about $55.60 million). This is the 75th highest-grossing film in Japan.
The film sold 1.003 million tickets and earned approximately US$13.2 million in its first three days of release in Japan. The film sold 1.353 million tickets and grossed 2.149 billion yen (about US$15.53 million) over the long weekend from Friday to Monday (July 17 is the Marine Corps Day holiday in Japan).
The film was Studio Ghibli’s first film to receive a simultaneous IMAX release. The film is also being shown in Dolby Atmos, Dolby Cinema and DTS:X.
GKIDS has licensed the film and will release it in North American theaters on December 8, with preview screenings on November 22.
The film had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which opened the event on Thursday at Roy Thomson Hall. This marked the first time the festival opened with an animated film as well as the first time for a Japanese film. The San Sebastian Film Festival (SSIFF) screened its European premiere at Donostia-San Sebastián’s Kursaal Auditorium in Spain on September 22 following a gala opening the event. This marks Miyazaki’s fourth film to be screened at SSIFF and the first time his film has participated in the event’s Official Selection. The festival honored Miyazaki with the Donostia Award for career achievement. The film is scheduled to open the 2023 Animation Is Film Festival, which takes place at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese 6 Theater from October 18 to October 22.
Miyazaki is credited with the original work, in addition to directing the film and writing the script. Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro) composed the music. Kenshi Yonezu (Chainsaw Man, My Hero AcadeKaren, March Comes in like a Lion) performed the theme song”Chikyūgi”(Globe).
Source: Gems of the Karenmi Film Festival, Karenmi New Times