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Photo via Frazer Harrison / Getty Images / Studio Ghibli Legendary director Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (or so he always says) may be a little difficult to find out about, and that is exactly as Studio Ghibli wants it. The film, titled How Do You Live?, will be released with next to no marketing, as the studio feels that this in itself in enough to actually get audiences interested, and in Japan at least, they very much are. When you are a legend, as Miyazaki is, having brought to life some of the greatest…

After a ten-year hiatus from feature films, Hayao Miyazaki is returning to the director’s chair with How Do You Live. Miyazaki has “retired” and then returned to direct another film many times over the past thirty years. Thank goodness he did, as he announced his first retirement a year before he decided to make Spirited Away.The film is an adaptation of the 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino, a children’s book which follows a young boy’s life as he navigates growing up with his uncle after the deaths of his parents. It’s a…

Image: GhibliWhen Studio Ghibli, the maker of acclaimed anime films like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and more, tweeted the Lucasfilm logo yesterday, people lost their minds wondering what it might be. Now Ghibli has issued an even more intriguing tease, and I expect everyone will be losing their minds even harder.It’s just a photo of a Grogu figurine, with a blurry figure sitting behind it. It might be cut off here, but if you click through to the tweet itself, that person is definitely legendary anime movie maker…

Image: First SecondDirectly inspired by Tibetan folklore, Hayao Miyazaki’s early graphic novel Shuna’s Journey is a look into the themes, stories, and character archetypes that define his more well-known work. Translated by Alex Dudok De Wit and published in English for the first time since its original Japanese release in 1983, this singular work within Miyazaki’s incredible opus is well worth picking up.Shuna’s Journey uses a restrained but evocative visual language, and the limited panels and reliance on narration help…

For Miyazaki, his part in the development of Studio Ghibli allowed him greater flexibility in terms of the elimination of time constraints to allow his art to form naturally. In a 2001 press conference (via Midnight Eye) in Paris during the promotion of "Spirited Away," Miyazaki said, "We never know where the story will go but we just keep working on the film as it develops." Miyazaki admits this can be "a dangerous way to make an animation film, and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves…

With summer around the corner, the wealthy are preparing their lists of elevating beach reads. And this year, their Goyard tote bags are likely to be filled with books about innovation, technology and Greek gods.J.P. Morgan Private Bank on Tuesday announced its 23rd annual summer reading list, which has become the seasonal "it list" of literary status symbols for the ultra-wealthy.The bank, whose clients typically have $10 million or more, sorts through hundreds of recommendations from client advisors for nonfiction books…