Next Ghibli Film Announced

Studio Ghibli has announced that Ged Senki director Goro Miyazaki will helm the production of a feature adaptation of Chizuru Takahashi and Tetsuro Sayama’s shoujo manga Kokuriko-Zaka Kara. Miyazaki co-wrote the screenplay with his Ged Senki co-writer Keiko Niwa. Veteran Ghibli film producer Toshio Suzuki will produce. Katsuya Kondo (Kiki’s Delivery Service, Like the Clouds, Like the Wind) will perform character design. Aoi Teshima (Ged Senki theme) will sing the film’s theme song. The film is currently in its final storyboarding phase and is planned for a theatrical opening next summer.

The 1980 manga is set in Yokohama in 1963 and depicts the everyday life of a pigtailed high school girl named Komatsuzaki and two boy friends, a school newspaper club member and the student council president.

Source: Anime News Network