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Hayao Miyazaki's final film, the tentatively titled How Do You Live?, is coming to IMAX theaters. The milestone marks a first for Miyazaki and the animation studio he co-founded nearly four decades ago. According to Anime News Network, the film will also screen in Dolby Atmos, Dolby Cinema and DTS:X when it arrives in Japan on July 14th. As Gizmodo notes, past Studio Ghibli films did not receive the IMAX treatment during their original theatrical runs. When you add that to the fact How Do You Live? is supposed to be…

Hayao Miyazaki’s next and apparently final film will be released with no trailer, marketing or other new promotional materials, it has been revealed.In an interview with Japanese magazine Bungei Shunju, translated by the Hollywood Reporter, producer Toshio Suzuki said the film, titled How Do You Live?, would be released with “no trailers or TV commercials at all … no newspaper ads either.” He added: “Deep down, I think this is what moviegoers latently desire.”How Do You Live? is due to be released in Japan on 14 July, but…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJapan’s Studio Ghibli says it won’t be releasing any commercials or trailers for co-founder and animator Hayao Miyazaki’s final film How Do You Live?The forthcoming film, which premieres in the country on 14 July, is one of the country’s most anticipated films in years, and is expected to serve as a poignant send-off for the genius creator behind animated classics including Spirited…

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…

Image: Studio GhibliIn a streamed video interview earlier today Toshio Suzuki, the co-founder and former president of Studio Ghibli who has been a producer on nearly every Ghibli film you can think of, revealed that there would be no additional images released for the newest Ghibli film, How Do You Live? The poster, included below, will be the only promotional image that will be available for viewers. Catsuka, on Twitter, provided a public translation of the video.Spoilers of the Week | June 3rdImage: Studio GhibliWhile…

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…

Spirited AwayImage: Studio GhibliJapan’s much-anticipated Studio Ghibli-themed attraction features a variety of sights and activities inspired by the worlds of Hayao Miyazaki’s legacy of films. Situated in a nature preserve, purposefully not disturbing the wilderness of the forest surrounding it, the park is more of an immersion into the atmosphere and locations of movies such as My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Kiki’s Delivery Service, among others.Here’s the official first look at the areas that will be…