Release Date
November 22, 2023 (LA/NY)
December 8, 2023
December 8, 2023
Digital Date
June 25, 2024
DVD Release Date
July 9, 2024 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Hayao Miyazaki
Writer
Hayao Miyazaki’
Cast
Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh
Studio
Running Time
124 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some violent content/bloody images and smoking
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.
MOVIE REVIEW
Beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is back with another fantastical animated adventure, and the Miyazaki diehards are out in force proclaiming how wonderful it is. The thing is, when you’re a huge fan of a director, you sometimes lose sight of reality, and in this case the reality is that The Boy and the Heron is a beautifully animated but frustratingly average film.
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