Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefStreaming giant Netflix has licensed rights to “Earwig and the Witch,” the most recent animated feature from Japan’s Studio Ghibli.
The deal excludes the U.S. and Japan.The film was directed by Miyazaki Goro, son of the iconic Miyazaki Hayao who has created other iconic films “Spirited Away,” “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Porco Rosso” through Studio Ghibli.The new film tells the story of a headstrong young girl who grew up in an orphanage.
Her life changes dramatically when a strange couple takes her in and she is forced to live with a selfish witch.With a screenplay by Niwa Keiko and Gunji Emi, the story of Earwig is based on a novel of the same name by English writer Diana Wynne Jones.
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