"The Boy and the Heron," which screened at the Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles, sees Hayao Miyazaki exercise his creativity if in familiar fashions and with some glaring missteps.
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest and possibly last anime is about a boy searching for his mother in wartime Japan. He moves to a farm, where he meets a goblin that looks like a heron and tells him his mother is still alive.
After an attempt at retirement in 2013, 82-year-old Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki has returned with Studio Ghibli’s most recent project and his 12th feature film, “The Boy and the Heron,” which made its North American premiere yesterday at the 61st New York Film Festival. Based on the 1937 novel “How Do You Live?” by Genzaburo.
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