Toho Announces Details of Miyazaki's Next Film
By rdemott2
Created 03/20/2007 - 00:00
files/pictures/picture-35.jpgToho has announced that in summer 2008 it will release Hayao Miyazaki's latest feature, GAKE NO UE NO PONYO (PONYO ON A CLIFF). Studio Ghibli is of course producing.
The follow-up to his $169 million worldwide grosser HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE will follows Ponyo, a goldfish princess that wants to become human. Miyazaki will also write the original story. A five-year-boy, who befriends Ponyo in the story, is based on his grandson, who is the son of Goro Miyazaki, the director the animated feature TALES FROM EARTHSEA.
Despite a growing use of CG in recent Studio Ghibli films, PONYO will be completely hand-drawn. Studio Ghibli reported in Oct. 2006 that Miyazaki and his main staff scouted locations in Kobe, a port on Japan's Inland Sea, and that Miyazaki is using watercolors for his storyboards, instead of his traditional black and white.
