Suzuki: Ghibli returns to the old ways. Ghibli's Showa Sanbusaku (Showa Trilogy). We will do it next year [Ed: Kokuriko is set in Showa 38 (1963/1964)], and then the next film is set in a little older Japan [than Kokuriko]. I don't know whether it goes well, but we are talk about it. How was the youth of the generation of the parents of lead character Umi-chan(Kokuriko)?. I feel it's interesting. Then we can see something. If we watch the movies, can understand how Japan came. Besides, put Totoro in it. And up to Ponyo. (Totoro seems one of Showa Trilogy. Kokuriko-zaka official website shows Miyazaki's plan paper. He mentions that Totoro was set in 1953 on it.
Hayao Miyazaki talked about the next film at the press conference of the Kokuriko-zaka theme song on March 28.
Miyazaki: In fact, I'm preparing the next film. It is not yet at the announcement stage, but I think that I can stick out my chest and I do not have to change the contents of it. (In other words, he thinks, the contents of the next film are not affected by the earthquake disaster. The contents of it are good for this time.) We must draw a human. But it's very disadvantageous battlefield to draw a life-sized human with an animation. But I think I must prepare. In the movie which I prepare for now, a life-sized human appears. (In short, next film is Not fantasy.)
Goro Miyazaki mentioned at the Kokuriko press conference "Ghibli will be separated from fantasy for a while".
After Great Hanshin Earthquake, Ghibli invested a large sum of money and trained young animators on the big budget film Mononoke. Hayao Miyazaki had the idea of the sequel of Poroco Rosso. It's true. But he thinks he should Not make it. Because it is the escape out of the pains to think about the next film. For Miyazaki, Porco Rosso is the easy way, because it's the old man's hobby. He said that at all times, "We must not make a movie as a hobby".
http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Latest_News#Studio_Ghibli_Begins_Work_on_Next_Feature_Film
ooo and here's their current movie
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