Studio Ghibli will release Aya to Majo (“Aya and the Witch”), The animation auteur’s son Goro Miyazaki directed the film.

The film is based on Earwig and the Witch, a children’s novel by British writer Diana Wynne Jones. Her work also inspired the 2004 Ghibli film Howl’s Moving Castle.

There are currently no plans to release the film in theatres in Japan it is said to be aired on NHK, a Japanese broadcast.