French viewers will also be able to discover Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, released in Japan on July 14. The boy and the heron It will hit French cinemas on November 1. It will be screened for the first time in France during the Lyon Lumière Festival on October 17.
The film gathered more than 4.9 million viewers in theaters in Japan.
The boy and the heron tells the story of Mahito, an 11-year-old boy whose mother disappeared in a fire, and who has to leave Tokyo to live in the countryside in the village where he grew up, Wild Bunch explained in a press release, which distributes the studio film. Ghibli in France. The story takes place during World War II.
A gray heron as a guide
Mahito settles with his father in an old mansion located on a huge estate where he meets a gray heron that little by little becomes his guide and helps him through his discoveries and questions to understand the world around him and break the mysteries of life.
The film, whose Japanese title is Kimi-tachi wa dō ikiru ka (How do you live?) is a loose adaptation of a novel by Genzaburo Yoshino published in 1937 and published in France under the title And you, how will you live?.
Awaited since 2016, this feature film was shrouded in mystery throughout its production. On rare occasions, he received no promotion, except for a poster drawn by Miyazaki himself depicting a strange bird-like creature whose eye is hidden under its beak. Now we know what the heron in the story is.
Source: BFM TV
