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 following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.”
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Overview:
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 following the appearance
Cast:
- Mahito Maki (voice): Soma Santoki
- Gray Heron (voice): Masaki Suda
- Kiriko (voice): Ko Shibasaki
- Lady Himi (voice): Aimyon
- Natsuko (voice): Yoshino Kimura
- Shoichi Maki (voice): Takuya Kimura
- Izumi (voice): Keiko Takeshita
- Utako (voice): Jun Fubuki
- Eriko (voice): Sawako Agawa
- Warawara (voice): Karen Takizawa
- Aiko (voice): Shinobu Ôtake
- The Parakeet King (voice): Jun Kunimura
- Noble Pelican (voice): Kaoru Kobayashi
- Granduncle (voice): Shōhei Hino
Crew:
- Key Animation: Toshiyuki Inoue
- Key Animation: Yoshimi Itazu
- Key Animation: Ai Takashi
- Key Animation: Hideki Hamasu
- Executive Producer: Kiyofumi Nakajima
- Key Animation: Atsuko Fukushima
- Key Animation: Yuuga Tokuno
- Key Animation: Takeshi Inamura
- Key Animation: Atsuko Otani
- Key Animation: Susumu Mitsunaka
- Key Animation: Takayuki Hamada
- Key Animation: Atsuko Tanaka
- Key Animation: Eiji Yamamori
- Key Animation: Hiroomi Yamakawa
- Assistant Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama
- Background Designer: Ai Omori
- Executive Producer: Goro Miyazaki
- Editor: Akane Shiraishi
- Editor: Rie Matsubara
- Color Designer: Kanako Takayanagi
- Art Direction: Noboru Yoshida
- Background Designer: Yumi Ishii
- Sound Director: Koji Kasamatsu
- Second Unit First Assistant Director: Shintarou Nakazawa
- Editor: Takeshi Seyama
- Background Designer: Kosuke Hayashi
- Key Animation: Yumi Handa
- Background Designer: Minori Takayama
- Second Unit First Assistant Director: Chihiro Okada
- Background Designer: Saki Kurobe
- Foley Artist: Mika Yamaguchi
- Color Designer: Fumiko Numahata
- Background Designer: Yui Onodera
- Background Designer: Ayahi Shimomura
- Compositing Artist: Junji Yabuta
- Background Designer: Kazuo Oga
- Background Designer: Yoichi Nishikawa
- Background Designer: Nanako Yagi
- Co-Producer: Yoshiaki Nishimura
- Director: Hayao Miyazaki
- Character Designer: Takeshi Honda
- Executive Producer: Koji Hoshino
- Art Direction: Yoji Takeshige
- Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui
- Producer: Toshio Suzuki
- Theme Song Performance: Kenshi Yonezu
- Key Animation: Michiyo Suzuki
- Key Animation: Akihiko Yamashita
- Key Animation: Ei Inoue
- Key Animation: Megumi Kagawa
- Key Animation: Katsuya Kondo
- Key Animation: Shinya Ohira
- Key Animation: Yoshimichi Kameda
- Key Animation: Masashi Ando
- Key Animation: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Key Animation: Shinji Otsuka
- Key Animation: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
- Key Animation: Kitaro Kosaka
- Original Music Composer: Joe Hisaishi
Catogories:
Animation,Adventure,Fantasy,Family,Drama
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Where death comes to an end, life finds a new beginning.
Language:
日本語
Production:
Japan
Company:
Studio Ghibli
Popularity:
165.288
Date:
2023-07-14
Year:
2023
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THE BOY AND THE HERON is a visually captivating film that struggles to balance all of its storylines and themes. Technically, no faults. The visuals are nothing short of breathtaking, with each shot meticulously detailed and rich in storytelling. The animation is a true work of art, drawing viewers into a world of wonder and magic. The sound design and score complement the visuals beautifully, enhancing the overall viewing experience. And finally, the film retains the typical Ghibli humor that fans have come to love, sprinkling lighthearted moments throughout the narrative.
However, Hayao Miyazaki succumbs to his ambition. The filmmaker tries to incorporate too many ideas, resulting in a somewhat confusing, messy narrative, particularly in the transitions between different characters, locations, and story arcs. THE BOY AND THE HERON stumbles in its attempt to juggle multiple ideas, but overall, it still manages to deliver a delightful, enchanting experience for fans of the studio’s work.
Rating: B-
- CinemaSerf: Maybe it’s sacrilegious to say, but I didn’t love this latest from the marvellously imaginative mind of Hayao Miyazaki. It follows the adventures of “Mahito” who arrives at the home of his factory-owning father amidst WWII. We appreciate quickly that his mother has died and that he is to have a new, expectant, mother in “Natsuko”. When she mysteriously disappears and “Mahito” finds his presence “requested” by an enigmatic and beautiful grey heron, he strays into an old abandoned tower on his family estate and is soon embroiled in a world inhabited by people who are alive and, well, not! It seems the heron is not quite what it seemed, either, as he must explore rooms within rooms and endless doors that open into new scenarios. Pursued by giant pelicans, how can “Mahito” find his stepmother and return safely to their home? Luckily, along the way, he encounters the benevolently spiritual “Kiriko” as he finds himself the subject of some clever manipulation between the outwardly benign “Grand Uncle” who draws the power of life from a giant sacred stone he wishes to leave in the custody of our young explorer and the ambitious “Pelican King”. You simply cannot fail to admire the vivid imagination of Miyazaki – the ideas and apparent randomness of the threads that gradually come together is hard enough to follow sometimes even when you have seen the denouement, and that’s what makes these intricately drawn and characterised stories usually more intriguing and enjoying. Somehow, though, this was just a little too unstructured and meandering for my little brain. I’ve seen it twice now and maybe I just didn’t engage with “Mahito” in the way I did with “Howl”, “Totoro” or ‘Chihiro” or, indeed, with the story. It’s still a glorious watch on a big screen and is certainly well worth watching. Just not sure it is in his top five, though!
- Chandler Danier: Good little adventure for this young man who… has a bit of a strange situation with his dad. What a crazy bugger his dad is and what kind of family dynamic is going on? Is the younger sister pregnant with the dad’s kid? Maybe it’s cultural and I’m not sure why the old man changes intention so quickly or what the bird motivations are. Perhaps will read a book about it one day.
It’s fun. There’s cool animation. I like to watch these in Japanese with subs but I went back to listen to the English track for certain scenes. Dafoe kills it as the dying stork.
