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Goro Miyazaki Supervises Japanese Release of Chinese CG-Animated Movie
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Anime director Goro Miyazaki, the son of Studio Ghibli co-founder and director Hayao Miyazaki, will supervise the Japanese release of the Chinese CG-animated movie Monkey King: Hero is Back. The film will open in Japan in summer 2017.
Miyazaki and the film's director Tian Xiaopeng appeared together on a panel about the future of 3D CG animation in Asia at the Japan-China-Korea Student Animation Festival 2016 event in July. At the event, Xiaopeng invited Miyazaki to participate in the project.
The film opened in China in July 2015. The story is set in Chang'an, and centers on an orphan boy who breaks a 500-year-old seal on Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. Sun Wukong must face a group of monsters intent on kidnapping children.
Miyazaki made his directorial debut with the 2006 film Tales from Earthsea. He then directed the 2011 anime film From Up On Poppy Hill and the CG-animated Ronja the Robber's Daughter anime series.
Source: Eiga.com
