![]() ![]() Miyazaki's father, like Mahito's, worked for a firm that produced parts for fighter planes, and his own family also evacuated from the city to the countryside during the war. How Do You Live also echoes the director's own biography. Poster of How Do You Live outside a Japanese cinema There are the usual visual treats, like cute yet eerie creatures, great-looking food and gravity-defying flights of fancy - primarily hand-drawn and moving with the fluidity and sense of weight that mark the master animator's work. The film is full of Miyazaki's signature obsessions, quirks and thematic concerns. Once he enters, he is transported into an alternate world full of magic where his quest brings him into contact with new friends and enemies alike. Mahito dismisses this claim, but when his new stepmother disappears into the tower he decides to rescue her. He also encounters a grey heron that can speak (as seen on the film's poster) who claims Mahito's mother is in fact alive and in the tower waiting to be rescued. Mahito, who is resentful of Natsuko for taking his mother's place, begins to explore the area around the house and discovers a mysterious tower which he is told not to enter. Shortly thereafter his father, who works in a factory producing fighter planes, marries his late wife's younger sister Natsuko, and moves the family to her large ancestral home in the countryside. The film is set in Japan during World War Two and centres around a young boy named Mahito whose mother is killed in a fire. ![]() How Do You Live (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka) takes its title from the 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino, but its story is a wholly original one, penned by Miyazaki. ![]()
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