Miyazaki's next: HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

By: Mike Whybark
Date: Friday, December 20, 2002
Source: ScreenDaily.com

SCREENDAILY.com covers Japanese film firm Toho's topliners for 2003-4, noting three films of great interest to American anime fans. Hayao Miyazaki returns on the heels of SPIRITED AWAY with HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, based on a children's novel by Diana Wynne Jones, about a girl changed by a wizard into an old woman. The film is set for screens in Summer 2004.

Also slated is STEAMBOY, from AKIRA director Katsuhiro Otomo. The film is the director's first feature-length production since AKIRA, a 1988 breakthrough hit. STEAMBOY is set in the England of the Industrial Revolution, and should see audiences in Fall 2003.

INNOCENCE will share the same setting and director as 1995's hit GHOST IN THE SHELL, Mamoru Oshii, and should hit theaters in Spring 2004.

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