Trailer

The Boy and the Heron

Runtime
2hrs 4mins
Directed by
Hayao Miyazaki
Featuring
Soma Santoki,
Masaki Suda,
Aimyon
Film Language
in Japanese with English subtitles
Body

Winner, Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards!

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in ten years, The Boy and the Heron, is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award–winning director.

A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning.
A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.

 

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