Studio Ghibli’s latest movie, The Boy and the Heron, has been described as a “semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, dying, and creation, in tribute to friendship.” Now, the first trailer for what might presumably be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film has lastly been launched. Watch it beneath.
By withholding conventional advertising imagery like posters, character artwork, and even trailers, a large quantity of hype and hypothesis has swirled round The Boy and the Heron. We don’t know a lot about it, and even the guide that it was tailored from—How Do You Reside?—was mentioned to supply extra inspiration than direct materials. io9 revealed the English-language cowl and excerpt for How Do You Live? in 2021 as a result of it might be offering the idea for this movie. And nonetheless, we all know little or no about it past what Studio Ghibli revealed immediately in a GKids press launch:
The Boy and the Heron
A younger boy named Mahito craving for his mom ventures right into a world shared by the residing and the useless.
There, dying involves an finish, and life finds a brand new starting.
A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, dying, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the thoughts of Hayao Miyazaki.
In accordance with the launch, The Boy and the Heron “begins particular preview engagements on November 22 earlier than increasing to cinemas nationwide and in Canada on December 8.”
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