Academy Award Winner 'The Boy And The Heron' To Return To Theaters With Bonus Content
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Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron has achieved yet another milestone. The film won Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Oscars ceremony! This marks Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki’s second Academy Award, the first being for Spirited Away (2001) in 2003. With this win, another exciting announcement was released: the film will be making a North American theatrical return! The Boy and the Heron returns to theaters on March 22, 2024. You can find tickets here!
According to Collider, this bonus content reportedly includes an introduction piece featuring animation supervisor Takeshi Honda at work and a statement from the film’s composer, Joe Hisaishi. his re-release will include both the subbed version and the English dub, which features the voices of Mark Hamill, Dave Bautista, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, and Robert Pattinson, among others. If you can’t make it to the theaters, the film will eventually hit Max; an official release date has yet to be confirmed.
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Miyazaki’s semi-autobiographical film The Boy and the Heron is set during the Pacific War, following Mahito Maki and his family as they move to the countryside following the death of Mahito’s mother. In this new place, the boy finds an abandoned tower that takes him to a new world where living and dead exist together. Grappling with themes of grief and loss, this coming-of-age story takes its viewers on a powerful journey of growth in the fantasy setting.
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