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The Boy and the Heron

  • Rated PG 13
  • 2hr 4m
  •  (5)
  • 92

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Director:

Hayao Miyazaki

Producer:

Toshio Suzuki

Writer:

Hayao Miyazaki

Release Date:

Dec 8, 2023

Runtime:

2hr 4m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Soma Santoki
  • Masaki Suda
  • Aimyon
  • Yoshino Kimura
  • Shôhei Hino
  • Ko Shibasaki

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100
Sep 27, 2023

If this film is Miyazaki’s true bow, it’s a magnificent final flourish that folds together many of the thematic and aesthetic threads he’s explored through his career: man’s relationship to nature, the majesty of flight, the twin pulls of love and loss. It’s stunning and inscrutable and measures among the best of his works.

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Clint Worthington
Consequence
83
Sep 8, 2023

In a career full of continuous surprises, The Boy and Heron’s biggest surprise might be just how magical and unique his work still feels after all these years.

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Ross Bonaime
Collider
83
Sep 8, 2023

What defines The Boy and the Heron is its wistful feeling of looking back.

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