Earlier this week, TGV Cinemas in Malaysia shared that they will start showing Hayao Miyazaki's movie, "The Boy and the Heron," on November 30.
A few days before this, Encore Films, a film distributor based in Singapore, had also announced that they would be bringing this anime film to Southeast Asia. "The Boy and the Heron" is an eagerly anticipated film as it's Hayao Miyazaki's first since "The Wind Rises" in 2013, and it might be his last.
The movie premiered in Japan on July 14 and is scheduled to be screened in the United States on December 8. Before its Japanese release, not much was known about the Studio Ghibli film, with promotional material limited to a mysterious poster. The plot, as described by the American distributor GKIDS, is:
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.
The Boy and the Heron kicked off the Toronto International Film Festival 2023 and had its first screening in the United States at the 61st New York Film Festival. It has the same name in Japanese as the 1937 book by Genzaburou Yoshino, which is said to be a favorite childhood book of Miyazaki, the famous filmmaker. Right now, The Boy and the Heron is the 74th most popular movie in Japan.
• Director and scriptwriter: Hayao Miyazaki
• Music composer: Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro)
• Animation director: Takeshi Honda (Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy)
Cast
• Souma Santoki as Mahito
• Yoshino Kimura as Natsuko
• Aimyon as Lady Himi
• Jun Kunimura as The Parakeet King
• Kou Shibasaki as Kiriko
• Masaki Suda as Gray Heron
• Kaoru Kobayashi as the Noble Pelican
Source: TGVCinemas
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