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 following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited… From TMDB
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60 of 286 · most liked firstMy favorite moviegoing experience of 2023 was seeing Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron. a row ahead of us, about an hour and a half into the film, a little boy asked his dad, "What's happening?" and his dad said, with utter sincerity: "I don't know"
positive · AI labelView post →While Hayao Miyazaki just won an Oscar for Best animated film for The Boy and the Heron, today marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, based on his own manga. A fabulous environmental fable that led to the creation of Ghibli Studios.
neutral · AI labelView post →i sincerely hope goro miyazaki never watches The Boy and the Heron, because if my harsh and emotionally unavailable father made a movie about how he had failed me as a parent and that movie was, like, one of the most beautiful films ever made, I think I would go insane
positive · AI labelView post →I wrote a short essay about The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature film with Studio Ghibli. It’s a free public post, and there’s a downloadable PDF attached. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/boy-an...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching Miyazaki’s 2023 film “The Boy and the Heron” is such a melancholy kind of beautiful. Serene and elegiac. I see why it won an Oscar.
positive · AI labelView post →Though I was very struck by The Boy And The Heron. Probably the cleverest and most meaningful use of time travel I've seen in a film outside of maybe Interstellar. You can't change your fate, but what if you could reframe the way you relate to it? More heavy lifting than most Ghibli films but lovely
positive · AI labelView post →Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film: The Boy and the Heron (2023)
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed THE BOY AND THE HERON, Miyazaki's final and most devastating film. A moving, playful, and gracious meditation on death, legacy, and grief. www.patreon.com/posts/942916...
neutral · AI labelView post →KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is the fourth non-Disney film to win the #Oscar for Best Animated Feature after GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO, THE BOY AND THE HERON, and FLOW.
neutral · AI labelView post →The absolute hilarity of having this complaint about the Boy and the Heron, a movie about blunt, uncreative consumers with throttling demands for rules and boundaries destroying magical worlds of whimsy.
positive · AI labelView post →I watched The Boy and the Heron last night. Really beautiful movie and another masterpiece from Miyazaki. Highly recommend!
positive · AI labelView post →My debut at @nytimes.com is THE BOY AND THE HERON, Hayao Miyazaki's new, confounding, fascinating film. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →A couple times a month, I get together with my grandma to hang out and watch a movie. Last time together we watched The Boy and the Heron and she loved it. So naturally, I pivoted to more Ghibli stuff. Today, we watched Howl's Moving Castle and she absolutely adored it.
positive · AI labelView post →After years of dragging our feet @autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io and I finally brought our Studio Ghibli podcast out of mothballs to talk about The Boy and the Heron, and manage to have one of the funniest, rudest podcasts about a movie I’ve ever recorded. Enjoy! www.abnormalmapping.com/and-then-an-...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy and the Heron is an utterly strange film even for Ghibli, but one thing I absolutely love about it is the unexpected cosmic horror element. it almost feels at times like it's brushing the edges of a Junji Ito story and it's great
positive · AI labelView post →okay so 'The Boy and the Heron' was a great film but I will say the moviegoing experience at Regal cinemas was downright TORTUROUS the posted showtime was 1:15, I arrived around 1 bc i'm weird like that and the theater BLASTED commercials nonstop until the film finally started at *1:35*
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night we watched The Boy and The Heron. It is such a sweet movie full of that magic that makes Studio Ghibli movies memorable. Go watch it if you have the chance! #👑🦜
positive · AI labelView post →The Boy and the Heron (2023) Great Blue Heron seen during my walk in Pierrefonds last Wednesday Another movie I haven't seen 😀 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #EastCoastKin
neutral · AI labelView post →Shohei Hino, a prolific film and television actor who voiced the Granduncle in Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron, dies at 75.
neutral · AI labelView post →The other night I watched Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron," & I enjoyed it. It felt like sort of a less-juvenile "Spirited Away" (which I say descriptively & not as a criticism of either excellent movie!). But I was also struck by how it reminded me of a PARTICULAR type of roleplaying game. 1/
positive · AI labelView post →'Godzilla Minus One' last weekend and 'The Boy and the Heron' this weekend is a theatrical one-two punch without precedent in my adult movie going life
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm glad that after a decade of "I'm retiring, this is my last film" Miyazaki has already come out and said The Boy and the Heron will not be his last. Not that I think people need to produce, I just like honesty
neutral · AI labelView post →Reading “The Boy and the Heron” as Children’s Fantasy Literature: Adam Wescott explores Studio Ghibli's "The Boy and the Heron," and the way the film stands as a celebration of children's literature, while becoming an important part of that pantheon, itself #ghibli #anime
neutral · AI labelView post →Hayao Miyazaki's stunning watercolor storyboards for his Academy award winning animated film 'The Boy And The Heron' (2023), all collected in this thick 642 pages volume. Explore more in my review- halcyonrealms.com/books/the-bo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Boy and the Heron again with my daughter, and I feel like there is almost no other film that moves so deftly between narrative and dream logic; the movie rolls through both worlds like water but is anchored with the most gorgeously sad/happy storyline of second chances
positive · AI labelView post →I wrote on The Boy and the Heron, the first feature-length movie Hayao Miyazaki has directed in 10 years and perhaps (though he's been saying this for a while now) his last. slate.com/culture/2023...
neutral · AI labelView post →We saw The Boy and the Heron movie a couple of weeks ago It was remarkable. It will make you forget about whatever ails, distracts, or weighs you down. You will be pulled into another world for two hours and four minutes and you will not regret it.
positive · AI labelView post →The Korean trailer of "The Boy and the Heron" reveals new footage from Hayao Miyazaki's movie. >> www.catsuka.com/breves/2023-... I had the chance to see the film this evening in France.
neutral · AI labelView post →82) The Boy and the Heron (subtitles). A flawless film this. Causes me to agonise over what I should chuck overboard to make space in my Letterboxd Top Four all the time.
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatched The Boy and the Heron. I don't know if this is going to be Miyazaki's final film or not, but it is a damn good one to retire on. It feels like a celebration of his career and imagination.
positive · AI labelView post →Okui’s most recent credit with the studio was as Director of Digital Imaging on Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning The Boy and the Heron, which was also the first Studio Ghibli film to screen in IMAX format.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hayao Miyazaki and Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron film wins the Oscar for Best Animated Feature!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy and the Heron film wins the Golden Globes' Best Animated Film Award!
neutral · AI labelView post →Godzilla Minus One, Napoleon, May December, The Boy and the Heron, Poor Creatures -- what a couple of months for film, man!
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghibli movie "The Boy And The Heron" is now on Netflix, so that's my Sunday Afternoon Movie sorted!
positive · AI labelView post →Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest animation director of all time. Now into his 80s, he's still making great films, bubbling with otherworldy efferverscence. Here's my review of his latest - The Boy and the Heron
positive · AI labelView post →Hi everyone, it's new article day 🥰 Today, Adam Wescott explores Studio Ghibli's "The Boy and the Heron," and the way the film stands as a celebration of children's literature, while becoming an important part of that pantheon, itself It's a great read, and we hope you enjoy it! #ghibli #anime
neutral · AI labelView post →came to this conclusion yesterday on stream RE: The Boy and The Heron. The film reminded me that art is always for the art first, audience second. Miyazaki very much made this film for himself.
positive · AI labelView post →Seeing The Boy and The Heron today after work First Ghibli movie I'm seeing on the big screen and second one overall I'm excited~
positive · AI labelView post →Next Ghibli movie for Ghibli week! 🖤 @xshike.bsky.social and I are currently watching: 📽️ The Boy and the Heron (2023)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy and the Heron will be available on Netflix worldwide except in the U․S. and Japan on October 7.
neutral · AI labelView post →Drawing Lady Himi House from The Boy and The Heron with Lady Himi, Grey Heron, and Mahito (this scene doesn't exist in the movie) #君たちはどう生きるか #鳥 #ghibli #theboyandheron
neutral · AI labelView post →trying to pinpoint when I realized Robert Pattinson might be my favorite actor. Could be his voiceover in The Boy and the Heron or maybe Mickey-17 but damn he loves to play weird little guys and I love seeing every single movie where he's a weird little guy. Primetime looks so fucked (complimentary)
neutral · AI labelView post →Disc market share for week ending in 2024-08-31: What a wonderful day as "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" is crowned first place.. **Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs** 1. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2. The Garfield Movie 3. Drive 4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 5. Star Trek: Discovery - The Final Season 6. IF 7. Watchmen: Chapter I 8. Civil War 9. The Boy and the Heron 10. The Fall Guy 11. Beetlejuice 12. The Bikeriders 13. The Watchers 14. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 15. Godzilla x Kong: The…
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched The Boy and the Heron and every other Hayao Miyazaki movie to articulate this: the physics of his animation, a fundamental building block in his fantastic worlds, have majorly shifted here - something that has happened in conjunction with the themes & personal changes. Fascinating movie!
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched The Boy and the Heron. I didn’t even know of its existence lol. But it was fantastic, and honestly, probably one of my favorite Studio Ghibli film to date. Highly recommend!
positive · AI labelView post →The Boy and the Heron is a great movie about PTSD that transitions into an either half-formed or overbaked movie about what it means to have more stories left in you than you can hope to tell before you die. Miyazaki's "Tempest 2". Maybe it'll grow on me with time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Disc market share for week ending in 2024-10-12: DVD takes nearly half the pie, while Blu-ray and UHD share just over a quarter piece each!. **Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs** 1. A Quiet Place: Day One 2. MaXXXine 3. Despicable Me 4 4. Arcane: League of Legends - Season One 5. Dune: Part Two 6. Bad Boys: Ride or Die 7. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy 8. Longlegs 9. Inside Out 2 10. Sleepy Hollow 11. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 12. Oppenheimer 13. The Boy and the Heron 14. Kingdom…
neutral · AI labelView post →The Max streaming service is streaming in the U․S. the 2-hour "Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron" documentary chronicling the making of The Boy and the Heron.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy and The Heron A truly excellent movie made by Ghibli, fantastic studio with some really high quality films. Definitely recommend giving it a watch.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched The Boy and The Heron this evening and my initial reaction is: good, but not a great Miyazaki film. Still fantastical and a must see of course, just might need a few rewatches. Also A+ to the score, Joe Hisaishi did it again! Probably one of my favorite soundtracks of any Ghibli film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reading “The Boy and the Heron” as Children’s Fantasy Literature: Adam Wescott explores Studio Ghibli's "The Boy and the Heron," and the way the film stands as a celebration of children's literature, while becoming an important part of that pantheon, itself #ghibli #anime
neutral · AI labelView post →Fav Ghibli film? The Boy and the Heron
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching “The Boy and the Heron” and I wish Future or Young Thug made a mixtape with this movie as the theme
neutral · AI labelView post →Solo trip to finally (finally!) see The Boy and the Heron! It’s been a long time since I’ve been to see a movie by myself—a true luxury.
positive · AI labelView post →Got high and watched The Boy and the Heron Because that wasn't enough of an abstract movie, apparently
positive · AI labelView post →Seated for The Boy and the Heron and the preview for this Mark Wahlberg triathlon magic dog movie is making me feel like someone is drilling through my skull
positive · AI labelView post →Official poster for Hayao Miyazaki’s new film THE BOY AND THE HERON. 📽️ FilmSky 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Grand Uncle @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Movie: The Boy and The Heron Year: 2023 Mark Hamill was part of the NYAV Post dub cast of Studio Ghibli's latest full-length film along with Luca Padovan, Robert Pattison, Willem Dafoe, Dave Bautista, and more. #TheBoyandTheHeron
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy and the Heron did about $40 million in the US back in 2023 and gets credit, along with Godzilla Minus One, for keeping movie theaters moderately busy after Wish and Napoleon were two-ton megabombs over Thanksgiving.
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