Studio Ghibli’s mysterious new film will be out in North America later this year
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6CZMD)
Image: Studio Ghibli / GKIDS
The mysterious new film from legendary animation studio Studio Ghibli and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki will be titled The Boy and the Heron in North America, according to an announcement from distributor GKIDS. The movie came out on Friday in Japan under the title Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka (translated as How Do You Live?), but GKIDS is only saying that it will be out in theaters later this year."
Ahead of the film's release, Studio Ghibli only shared the Japanese title and a couple of images of some kind of bird-like creature - there hasn't even been a trailer - so there are a lot of unknowns about what the film might actually be about. That was an intentional strategy.
A poster and a title - that's all we got when we were children," Studio...