Studio Ghibli, the production house beloved by movie-goers around the globe, has announced that it will be opening a theme park honouring the legacy of its most famous works. Miyazaki’s longtime producer and business partner Toshio Suzuki said in 2018 that the great animator was working on the film for his grandson as his way of saying, “Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film for you.Fans of animated classics like Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke and Kiki’s Delivery Service are in for a treat. Miyazaki, now 81, is currently at work on his 12th feature, How Do You Live?, based on the 1937 children’s novel of the same name by Japanese author Yoshino Genzaburo. Tickets for the museum go on sale at the beginning of each month and usually sell out within hours. The studio already operates the wildly popular Ghibli Museum in the western Tokyo district of Mitaka, near where Miyazaki and his family reside. Officials said Thursday that they expect approximately 1 million visitors to the park in its soft-launch phase, followed by as many as 1.8 million per year once the facility is fully completed. Additional planned amenities and attractions that have leaked out to the world, so far, include antique shops modeled after those in Whisper of the Heart, substantial exhibition space and a theater.

Other sections, such as a Princess Mononoke attraction, a Kiki’s Delivery Service area and a re-creation of Howl’s Moving Castle - will open sometime next year. Ian Whittaker, Set Decorator on 'Alien,' 'Howards End' and 'Tommy,' Dies at 94Īt launch, at least one of the park’s five planned themed lands - a large area based on Ghibli’s 1988 classic My Neighbor Totoro, featuring a life-size re-creation of the characters’ family home and other natural environments of the Japanese countryside - will be ready for visitors.

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