On September 6, 2013 Hayao Miyazaki announced that "The Wind Rises" (2013) would be his last film, and on August 3, 2014 it was announced that Studio Ghibli was "temporarily halting production" following the release of "When Marnie Was There" (2014), further substantiating the finality of Miyazaki's retirement. The disappointing sales of Isao Takahata's comeback film "The Tale of Princess Kaguya" (2013) has also been cited as a factor. Several prominent staffers, including producer Yoshiaki Nishimura and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, left to form their own Studio Ponoc, premièring with "Mary and the Witch's Flower" (2017). Both Ghibli and Miyazaki subsequently went back into production for the up-coming film "How Do You Live?", while Takahata died on April 5, 2018 of lung cancer.