It’s been a long time since the last feature-length Studio Ghibli anime. While we were happy to get the Hayao Miyazaki-directed Boro the Caterpillar short that plays at Tokyo’s Ghibli Museum in 2018, the most recent Ghibli film that’s longer than 15 minutes is When Marnie Was There, which debuted in 2014 as the tail end of an 18-year streak where a new Ghibli movie was released every other year, if not sooner.
So when word came that Goro Miyazaki, Hayao’s son, was returning to the director’s chair to helm Earwig and the Witch, Ghibli’s next full-length anime and its first-ever all-CG one, we were excited, even with the hazy initial release window of “this winter.” But now we know exactly when the wait will be over, right down to the exact minute, as Earwig and the Witch will be shown on Japanese public broadcaster NHK at 7:30 p.m. on Dec 30.
The anime’s principal voice cast has also been announced, with 13-year-old Kokoro Hirasawa playing protagonist Aya. Hirasawa already has dozens of live-action TV and movie acting credits, including the role of Yuzu in the live-action adaptation of anime/manga Bleach, but this will be her first time voice acting in an anime production. “Studio Ghibli has created such a legacy of outstanding works, ” Hirasawa says, “and I’m so excited to be able to participate in one of their productions.”
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Like Hirasawa, Terajima and Toyokawa are veteran live-action performers who’re newcomers to anime voice acting (not unusual choices for a Ghibli anime). Hamada’s background is also primarily in live-action acting, although he’s had voice roles in a handful of anime films, most recently 2018’s Pokemon the Movie: The Power of Us, in which he played painfully shy researcher Torito/Toren.
Earwig and the Witch (titled Aya and the Witch in Japanese) is an adaptation of the children’s novel by English author Diana Wynne Jones, who also wrote Howl’s Moving Castle, itself adapted into a Ghibli anime in 2004. However, in contrast to how Ghibli’s version of When Marnie Was There switched its setting from the original novel’s England to Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, Earwig and the Witch will be staying true to its source material’s geographic setting and take place in the UK in the 1990s, where orphan Aya is taken in by the witch Bella Yaga.
When it was first announced that Earwig and the Witch was being developed for TV broadcast, as opposed to theatrical release, there was a mild pang of disappointment among some fans of Ghibli’s traditional big-screen focus. But with trips to the theater still a dicey proposition, the chance to watch a brand-new Ghibli anime from home is a special treat, and it’ll be interesting to see how the younger Miyazaki’s project turns out after purposely not asking any of the studio’s “old men” for their advice.
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Poster for renowned Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animation film Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka (How Do You Live?). (Copyright 2023 Studio Ghibli)(Kyodo)
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The limited information available before the release of the latest Studio Ghibli Inc. film included a poster, revealed in December 2022, of a bird-like creature with white and blue feathers.
The 124-minute film by 82-year-old Miyazaki, who came out of retirement for it, features a boy who lost his mother in a fire in Japan during wartime.
He wanders into a mysterious world guided by a gray heron while looking for his father's expected new partner who has gone missing.
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The film's title comes from a 1937 best-selling novel by Genzaburo Yoshino, an editor and writer of children's literature. The novel shows up in the film as a book read by the main character.
Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki said at a Tokyo event in late June that the decision to eschew advertising had been taken due to concern that over-promotion of previous movies may have led audience interest to wane a bit.
A 27-year-old company employee described the film as a culmination of Miyazaki's anime world. I can't digest it by just watching it once and I feel like I want to watch it again immediately, he said.
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A long queue forms at a cinema in Tokyo on the morning of July 14, 2023, as renowned Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animation film Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka (How Do You Live?) is released in Japan. (Kyodo)
As fans tried to learn more about the mysterious film before its opening day, interest in related printed works grew. Publishers of Yoshino's book and a comic book based on it said they had decided to issue reprints.
Miyazaki's works are popular in Japan and overseas. His fantasy movie Spirited Away won the prestigious Golden Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002 and the American Academy Award for Animated Feature Film in 2003.
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His other major works include the 1988 classic hit My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke in 1997 and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind in 1984.
The Japanese animator announced his retirement in 2013 as The Wind Rises was being screened, citing difficulties in making films due to his age. But he later retracted the statement.
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