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Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? Gets New Name and North American Distributor
Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? Gets New Name and North American Distributor,Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘How Do You Live?’ for Studio Ghibli will not have any promotional materials, which include: no trailer, voice cast list, or plot summary. It will be renamed ‘The Boy and the Heron’ for the North American release later this year.

Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? Gets New Name and North American Distributor

If you were expecting a typical Hollywood rollout from Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki, oops. Maybe only in a world with an enchanted forest and fluffy monsters. How Do You Live?, Miyazaki’s final feature film, is getting a new name for its upcoming international release, now titled The Boy and the Heron for audiences outside of Japan. Keeping a similar tone to the Japanese release, the film distributed by GKIDS will not have any promotional materials, despite the film premiering in Japan this week. In an interview with the Japanese magazine Bungei Shunji earlier this year, the film’s producer (and Miyazaki’s longtime collaborator) Toshio Suzuki revealed that there would be no trailers, no voice cast lists, no nothing for their film. “As part of company operations, over the years Ghibli has wanted people to come see the movies we’ve made. So we’ve thought about that and done a lot of different things for that purpose — but this time we were like, ‘Eh, we don’t need to do that,’” Suzuki explained. “Doing the same thing you’ve done before, over and over, you get tired of it. So we wanted to do something different.”

GKIDS is honored to announce the acquisition of North American rights to THE BOY AND THE HERON, the new film from Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli.Debuting in Japan as #君たちはどう生きるか (translated as How Do You Live), THE BOY AND THE HERON opens in N. American theatres 2023. pic.twitter.com/L4LFpbU2zP

— GKIDS Films (@GKIDSfilms) July 14, 2023

There’s only so much we do know about the film: It’s based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Genzaburo Yoshino and described as “fantasy on a grand scale.” There’s also a theme song to the film by Kenshi Yonezu called “Spinning Globe” available to stream, giving us a little bit of what the movie’s vibe might be like. But … that’s it. If it is anything like Miyazaki’s other films, it will be fantastical and make us cry a little too hard. The Boy and the Heron came out on July 14 in Japan, and international release dates are coming soon through GKIDS in North America.

Sources

The Hollywood Reporter

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