The Boy and the Heron

13+ Age suitability

Fantasy drama from Studio Ghibli master Hayao Miyazaki.

While the Second World War rages the teenage Mahito haunted by his mother's tragic death is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother.

As he tries to adjust this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron who perplexes and bedevils Mahito dubbing him the "long-awaited one."

The Boy and the Heron is now playing in 222 cinemas in Australia.