Released in Japan on July 14th, The Boy & the Heron will certainly show up in France on November 1st, 2023. The news simply appeared a couple of mins earlier, bringing alleviation to all followers of Hayao Miyazaki as well as Studio Ghibli manufacturings. This is specifically essential since it is the master of 2D computer animation’s most current movie, currently at the age of 82, as well as it comes ten years after The Wind Rises. Known as “Kimi-Tachi Wa Do Ikiru Ka” or “How Do You Live?” throughout its development procedure, The Boy & the Heron will certainly inform us the tale of Mahito, an 11-year-old child that needs to leave Tokyo to reside in the countryside in the town where his mom matured. She passed away in a fire, as well as Mahito relocates with his papa in an old manor situated on a significant estate where he fulfills a grey heron that slowly becomes his overview. Throughout his explorations as well as the pursuit to comprehend the globe around him as well as untangle the secrets of life, the heron ends up being a close friend. The movie has actually been seen by virtually 5 million audiences in Japan because its staged launch on July 14th.
It deserves remembering that in 2020, 3 years after the begin of the movie’s development, Hayao Miyazaki made one min of movie each month. While computer system animation has actually ended up being the typical today, the Japanese filmmaker remains to deal with standard methods, all hand-drawn. It deserves bearing in mind that his friend Isao Takahata, with whom he established Studio Ghibli, took 8 years to make his last movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2014). The Boy & the Heron will certainly exist at the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival as well as the San Sebastián Festival. The French best will certainly occur at the Lumière Festival on Tuesday, October 17th.
