Malaysia’s TGV Cinemas revealed earlier this week that it will begin showing The Boy and the Heron from Hayao Miyazaki on November 30.
A few days earlier, Singapore-based film distributor Encore Films announced that it would bring the animated film, Miyazaki’s first since 2013’s The Wind Rises and possibly his last. his, to Southeast Asia.
The Boy and the Heron premiered in Japan on July 14 and is scheduled to begin showing in the US on December 8. Very little is known about the film. Studio Ghibli ahead of its Japanese launch, with pre-release promotional material being limited to mysterious poster images. American distributor GKIDS describes the plot as follows:
A boy named Mahito
longing for mother
Adventure into a world shared by the living and the dead.
There, death ends,
and life finds a new beginning.
A semi-autobiographical fantasy story
about life, death and creativity, in memory of friendship,
from the thoughts of Hayao Miyazaki.
The Boy and the Heron was the opening night film of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and premiered in the United States at the 61st New York Film Festival. It has the Japanese title How Do You Live?/Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka, with the 1937 novel by Genzaburou Yoshino, is described by Goodreads as Miyazaki’s “favorite childhood book.” The Boy and the Heron is currently the 74th highest-grossing film in Japan.
Staff
→ Director and screenwriter: Hayao Miyazaki
Animation director: Takeshi Honda (Rebuild of Evangelion quartet)
→ Composer: Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro)
Performer
Souma Santoki as Mahito
• Yoshino Kimura as Narutoko
Jun Kunimura as the Macaw King
Kaoru Kobayashi as the noble Pelican
© Kou Shibasaki as Kiriko
ÃAimyon as Lady Himi
Masaki Suda as Gray Heron
Source: @TGVCinemas