Full US Trailer for Studio Ghibli & Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’
by Alex Billington
November 2, 2023
Source: YouTube
“Your mother – she’s awaiting your rescue. I’ll be your guide.” GKids has debuted the official US trailer for The Boy and the Heron, the latest feature film from the iconic filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. This is his 12th feature film, and his latest since The Wind Rises in 2013. After opening in Japan in July, premiering at TIFF 2023 during its festival run, it’s set for US release in theaters nationwide this December. Go see it!! “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.” With an original score by Joe Hisaishi. Described as a “big fantastical film”, it follows a boy who discovers an abandoned tower in his new town and enters a magical, mystical world guided by a strange talking grey heron. The English-language dub version (featured in this trailer) includes Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh. This is a remarkably beautiful film, with so much depth and nuance in the story & artwork. Maestro Miyazaki is back again with another one-of-a-kind film!! Don’t miss watching this in theaters when it opens in December – a must see on the big screen.
Here’s the official US trailer (+ US poster) for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, via YouTube:
You can rewatch the teaser trailer for Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron right here for the first look again.
Via TIFF: “During WWII, young Mahito Maki (Soma Santoki) suffers a heartbreaking family tragedy and must move immediately to the countryside, where his father (Takuya Kimura) works for a family making planes for Japan’s military, as Miyazaki’s own father did. Isolated, he begins exploring the mysterious landscapes & encounters a grey heron, persistent in its presence. The boy happens upon an abandoned tower. Curious, he enters. From there, The Boy and the Heron expands into a wondrous, often-startling phantasmagoria.” The Boy and the Heron, also How Do You Live? or 君たちはどう生きるか in Japanese, is both written and directed by beloved Japanese animation filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, director of the films Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, and The Wind Rises previously. Inspired by the story written by Genzaburô Yoshino. This already opened in Japan in July earlier this summer. It also premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival in Canada. GKids debuts Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron in US theaters nationwide starting December 1st, 2023.
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