Hayao Miyazaki’s First Film in a Decade, The Boy and the Heron, Releases First Trailer
Ahead of its first screening outside of Japan, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli‘s long-anticipated The Boy and the Heron has released its first trailer. The film marks Miyazaki’s first movie in a decade, since the game-changing The Wind Rises marked the last time the anime master threatened to retire from filmmaking. The Boy and the Heron has been even more enticing as a swan song because of the mystery surrounding the film. With no conventional press materials released in the years of development, we’ve been left to speculate what kind of narrative would befit Miyazaki’s (alleged) farewell. Now, after releasing in Japanese theaters in July, Studio Ghibli and GKIDS have released the first footage to the world.
Take a look:
Fittingly, the official description of The Boy and the Heron was released in poem form:
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.