Photo/Illutration Director Hayao Miyazaki (Asahi Shimbun file photo)

Anime maestro Hayao Miyazaki’s latest offering, “Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiruka” (How do you live?), will be released nationwide on July 14, Toho Co. announced.

It will be the 82-year-old’s first feature film since 2013 when “The Wind Rises” was released.

The Oscar-winning director announced his intention to retire from full-length film creation that year.

But he came out of retirement in 2017 to devote himself to this project.

The film’s title comes from a book of the same name by author Genzaburo Yoshino published in 1937.

“It is a story in which the book means a lot to the protagonist,” Miyazaki has said.

According to Toho, the director was impressed by the book and came up with an original storyline.

“We feel it will be a fantasy movie with a youthful perspective,” said Minami Ichikawa, senior managing executive officer at Toho, during a Dec. 13 news conference to announce the project. “We are looking forward to seeing the completed movie with a really pure mind.”

(This article was written by Atsushi Ohara and Takuji Hosomi.)

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A poster visual for “Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiruka” ((c) 2023 Studio Ghibli)

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