In 2022, Studio Ghibli’s Hidden will get its first live-action theatrical adaptation.
This is the first Studio Ghibli film to achieve a stage adaptation. In 2013, Studio Ghibli and Whole Hog Theater collaborated on a live action Princess Mononoke, which performed at the New Diorama Theater in London.
This time, Tony and Olivier Award-winning director John Caird (The Miserables, Nicholas Nickleby, Daddy Long Legs) will direct and direct the adaptation.
Known as Without Chihiro in Japan, Hidden was launched in 2001 and became a huge hit in Japan.
“I feel so excited and privileged to work in the first one stage adaptation of Without Chihiro“I have regarded Miyazaki Hayao for many years as one of the preeminent geniuses of world cinema and the greatest proponent of the form of anime,” Caird said in an official statement.
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“He must have spent a thousand hours working Without Chihiro and we look forward to spending many more, ”he said.
Both of us Mone Kamishiraishi i Kanna Hashimoto they have been split in two as Chihiro’s leader. Mone is perhaps best known for her work in anime Your name while Hashimoto has starred in a number of films and TV shows.
“Hayao and I both liked John’s vision. He is a person we can trust, “said Studio Ghibli’s Toshio Suzuki, who produced the original film.” I’m looking forward to seeing Chihiro grow up on stage under his direction. ”
“I could tell how much he loves this story from his enchanted face when I gave him a No-Face Piggy bank,”Suzuki added.
The stage version of Hidden will debut at the Imperial Theater in Tokyo, Japan, in February 2022 and will run until March. The production will be follow the road to Osaka (April), Fukuoka (May), Sapporo (June) and Nagoya (June and July).