{"id":130279,"date":"2023-09-12T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T07:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=130279"},"modified":"2023-09-12T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T07:35:56","slug":"the-boy-and-the-heron-trailer-released-for-hayao-miyazakis-dark-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/cinema\/the-boy-and-the-heron-trailer-released-for-hayao-miyazakis-dark-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy And The Heron: Trailer released for Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s dark fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Hayao Miyazaki, the man behind classic Studio Ghibli films such as <em><strong>Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Princess Mononoke<\/strong><\/em> comes a brand new dark fantasy for the studio with <em><strong>The Boy And The Heron<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7EDFdA10pg?si=lvSrK_ryCKEoRS3W\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The movie follows a young boy named Mahito who is yearning for his mother and ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s first feature film in 10 years,\u00a0<strong><i>The Boy and the Heron<\/i> <\/strong>is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award-winning director. Produced by Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki, the film features a musical score from Miyazaki&#8217;s long-time collaborator Joe Hisaishi. The theme song for the film &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/6x7SB38tuekpu4xpH9OIPY?go=1&amp;sp_cid=8fad73e57b65ba8906d5925639fbb449&amp;utm_source=embed_player_p&amp;utm_medium=desktop&amp;nd=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spinning Globe<\/a>&#8216; was penned and performed by global J-pop superstar Kenshi Yonezu.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130281\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Miyazaki.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Miyazaki.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Miyazaki-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Miyazaki-616x370.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Miyazaki-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Boy And The Heron is Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s (pictured) first feature film in 10 years. Image by: Nicolas Gu\u00e9rin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The movie has been described by Studio Ghibli as a &#8216;semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship&#8217; and though it was supposed to be Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s last movie, recent reports seem to suggest that may not be the case after all.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During the Toronto International Film Festival (where the movie has its international premier)<em>,<\/em>\u00a0Studio Ghibli\u00a0executive Junichi Nishioka told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/miyazaki-still-working-1.6960501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC&#8217;s Eli Glasner<\/a> that Miyazaki is currently working on something new<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Other people say that this might be his last film, but he doesn&#8217;t feel that way at all,&#8221; said Nishioka through a translator. &#8220;He is currently working on ideas for a new film. He comes into his office every day and does that.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This time, he&#8217;s not going to announce his retirement at all. He&#8217;s continuing working just as he has always done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>The Boy And The Heron<\/strong><\/em> is written and directed by Miyazaki and stars Soma Santoki (<em><strong>Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story<\/strong><\/em>), Masaki Suda (<em><strong>Misuteri to iunakare<\/strong><\/em>) and Takuya Kimura (<em><strong>The Swam<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><em><em><strong>The Boy And The Heron will be released in cinemas on 8 December. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/bfi-london-film-festival-2024-genre-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It will be shown during the London Film Festival on<\/a><\/strong> <\/em><strong>Sunday 08 October and Sunday 15 October 2023.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the trailer for Studio Ghibli&#8217;s The Boy And The Heron plus is this Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s last movie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":130282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Entertainment","MSN_Publish_Option":true,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,6954,3],"tags":[2850,4004,2849,7779,7780],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-Boy-And-The-Heron.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130285,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130279\/revisions\/130285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}