The Boy and the Heron

7.4 2023 Hayao Miyazaki 2h 4m
Animation Adventure Fantasy Drama Family
The Boy and the Heron

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger

Cast

Soma Santoki Soma Santoki Mahito Maki (voice)
Masaki Suda Masaki Suda Gray Heron (voice)
Ko Shibasaki Ko Shibasaki Kiriko (voice)
Aimyon Aimyon Lady Himi (voice)
Yoshino Kimura Yoshino Kimura Natsuko (voice)
Takuya Kimura Takuya Kimura Shoichi Maki (voice)
Keiko Takeshita Keiko Takeshita Izumi (voice)
Jun Fubuki Jun Fubuki Utako (voice)

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Double Feature Pairings

Films that pair perfectly with The Boy and the Heron

Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 2010
Letting go. Two master animators saying goodbye in their own way. Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle 2004
Miyazaki's grief. Two films where personal loss becomes the key to magical worlds of staggering beauty. Spirited Away
Spirited Away 2001
Miyazaki's grief worlds. Two films about children who enter fantasy realms because reality has become too painful.

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