EDITOR’S NOTE: Hi! Hello. This article is from 2014, and we’re not entirely sure why hundreds of you are reading it right now. (Was it shared in a Facebook group? Let us in, we love Studio Ghibli!)
As you probably know by now, Studio Ghibli did not shut down in 2014. It temporarily halted production following the retirement of director Hayao Miyazaki. But it’s back, baby! Earwig and the Witch, the studio’s first 3D movie, was released last year, and How Do You Live? is slated for 2023. Anyway. Hope this clears some things up! Carry on.
Whispers of the imminent demise of highly influential Japanese animation production company Studio Ghibli have now been validated, with the studio’s general manager, Toshio Suzuki, announcing on Japanese television this morning that the studio will officially shut down and use its scaled back human resources to manage trademarks tied to its existing back catalogue of films and cease making new ones.
