In an update, it was commented that this new movie titled Kimi-tachi wa Dou Ikiru ka has completed 36 minutes produced, in a production time of four years, and that it is expected to finish it in the next three years. Suzuki noted that the film takes so long because it is being drawn entirely by hand.
Suzuki also confirmed that Hayo Miyazaki's son and director Goro Miyazaki is working on a new movie in CG animation. Suzuki commented that "it is based on an English book about a very smart girl."
Suzuki had already revealed in October 2019 that Hayao Miyazaki's new movie was already 15% complete after three and a half years in production. Miyazaki is producing almost a minute of film a month. At the Ghibli Museum, it was also revealed that Miyazaki started drawing the storyboards for this movie from 2017.
Producer Suzuki had also stated for Bungei Shunjuu magazine in March 2019 that Miyazaki was working on the movie Kimi-tachi wa Dou Ikiru ka without an estimated completion date. Suzuki noted that Studio Ghibli projects typically have production schedules and clarified end dates. In a television broadcast that in fact revealed the title of the new project, Miyazaki presented a draft of the specified timeline that would end the film in 2019, but Suzuki noted that this plan has already been scrapped.
The title of Hayao Miyazaki's new film is a reference to writer Genzaburou Yoshino's masterpiece published in 1937. Miyazaki added that the book is a story with a great impact on the development of the feature film's protagonist. Yoshino's book focuses on a young man named Koperu and his uncle, as well as Koperu's spiritual growth, who often wonders what it means to be human.
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