The Boy and the Heron
Where death comes to an end, life finds a new beginning.
君たちはどう生きるか (2023)
Timing:
2:4 (124 min)
7.407/10
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2566
7.862/10
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258301
7.3/10
125000
125000
Country
Production
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Family
Budget
$50 000 000
Revenue
$294 244 867
Director
Actors
Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura, Keiko Takeshita, Jun Fubuki, Sawako Agawa, Karen Takizawa
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Toshio Suzuki, Goro Miyazaki, Koji Hoshino, Kiyofumi Nakajima
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Takuya Ohno, Yuji Tange
Editing
Short description
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 one."
What's left behind the scenes
- The original title of the animated film, “How are you?”, was borrowed from a 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino.
- The original title, “How Are You?”, was borrowed from Genzaburo Yoshino’s 1937 novel, but the film is not based on it.
- Hayao Miyazaki began working on the project in 2016, before receiving official approval from the studio.
- In December 2019, after three and a half years of work on the film, it was announced that it was 15% complete. Producer Toshio Suzuki said that Miyazaki usually created 7 to 10 minutes of animation per month, so they decided together to average 5 minutes of material per month. However, Miyazaki ended up working at a rate of about one minute of material per month.
- According to cinematographer Atsushi Okui, he suggested making the animation colors darker during the digital processing of the drawings to convey the darker aspects of the story.
- The original title, "How Do You Live?", is taken from a 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino, but the anime is not based on it.
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