According the film journalist Hiroo Otaka, Ghibli has announced their next film, premiering next summer. It is called Kokuriko-Zaka Kara and is an adaptation of a shojo manga by Chizuru Takahashi and Tetsurō Sayama. According to ANN:
Director: The film is being storyboarded and scripted by Hayao Miyazaki. However, it will be directed by Goro Miyazaki, who received mixed reception for his first project, "Tales from Earthsea".
I am not particularly a fan of Goro, but the subject matter and the fact that the elder Miyazaki is storyboarding is enough to keep me excited. The no-fantasy setting and subject remind me very much of Mimi o Sumaseba.
Full ANN article here: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...aka-kara-manga
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The story is set in Showa 38 (1963, a year before the Tokyo Olympics) and follows the coming of age of an ordinary, pigtailed high school girl named Komatsuzaki in Yokohama, a harbor city near Tokyo. Her sailor father went missing after an accident, and her photographer mother is frequently going abroad for work. Her family now runs a lodging house. The manga recounts Komatsuzaki's everyday life of "laughter and tears" with two boys — a school newspaper member and the student council president. |
I am not particularly a fan of Goro, but the subject matter and the fact that the elder Miyazaki is storyboarding is enough to keep me excited. The no-fantasy setting and subject remind me very much of Mimi o Sumaseba.
Full ANN article here: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...aka-kara-manga
