The boy and the heron It is the last film of Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), produced by the brand new studio GhibliThe film debuted in theaters in December 2025 and is now about to hit the small screen.
Netflix will add to its catalog The boy and the heron starting Monday, October 7, 2024. And with this you will almost complete your Ghibli Studio collection, remember that you have a large part of the films from the sophisticated animation house.
In Latin America, Netflix’s catalogue is the most extensive in terms of Studio Ghibli’s film production.
It was supposed to The boy and the heron It would be Miyazaki’s last project, However, after the release of the feature film, the director said that he would not retire, but that he would continue to keep his new films secret, due to the increasingly complex animation landscape in Japan.
The boy and the heron It was a huge success and it is worth noting that it was a secret until the end, because few advertising materials were revealed prior to the premiere. The adventure of the young protagonist is a path of grief and personal growth and will finally be available on the Netflix platform.
Also, a documentary that tells Miyazaki’s experience in producing The boy and the heron will be available on the Max platform. Are you interested in knowing every detail? You will have a lot of material to review.
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What is The Boy and the Heron about?
The boy and the heron adapts the novel by Genzaburo Yoshino that was originally titled How Do You Live? In Japanese, the film retained the original name.
The novel is considered a coming-of-age narrative. which follows the story of a group of young people facing a post-war world, between orphanhood, death and changes in the Japanese system, the boys have to forge a new character due to the demands of their new reality.
The boy and the heron It focuses on a protagonist who moves from the city to the countryside and after losing his mother, his father marries his aunt, who is now expecting a baby. The protagonist is very resistant to change and to his new family, and while he gets lost in his feelings and thoughts, he finds a new world that will make him travel through a world of different spaces and times that will lead him to live fantasies and face his consolidation as a person.
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