The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron streams on Max and Netflix, and it's Hayao Miyazaki's late-career masterwork: a grieving boy led by a talking grey heron into a strange, layered world between life and death. Dense, personal, and Oscar-winning.
About
Mahito, a boy reeling from the loss of his mother in wartime, moves to the countryside with his father and struggles to accept a new life. A peculiar grey heron begins taunting him, luring him toward an abandoned tower and, through it, into a surreal parallel world that runs on its own dreamlike rules. There he searches for what he's lost and confronts questions of grief, creation, and how to live, in Miyazaki's most enigmatic and autobiographical film.
Information
- Japanese
- 君たちはどう生きるか
- Premiered
- July 14, 2023
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 124 min per ep.
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studio
- studio ghibli inc.
- Source
- Original
- Themes
- drama, japanese production, fantasy, slice of life, coming of age, japan
FAQ
It streams on Max and Netflix, subbed and with an English dub.
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