The Boy and the Heron review: anime legend Hayao Miyazaki makes a grand, beautiful, tortured return
by Clarisse Loughrey
Dec 26, 2023
2 minutes
Hayao Miyazaki’s contains multitudes. It is beautiful, tortured, whimsical, and stoic. Not unlike , it blends traditional Japanese constructs with Lewis Carroll’s wit. An angry but vulnerable young boy, Mahito (Soma Santoki), is brought out to the countryside after his mother’s death, only to be tempted into following a gravelly voiced, repugnant man-heron (Masaki Suda) into an underland of endless hallways, dictatorial parakeets and
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