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Kimitachi Wa Do Ikiru Ka
The Boy and the Heron
How Do You Live?
Japan 2023
produced by Toshio Suzuki, Koji Hoshino (executive), Goro Miyazaki (executive), Kiyofumi Nakajima (executive) for Studio Ghibli, Toho
directed by Hayao Miyazaki
starring the voices of Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura, Aimyon, Ko Shibasaki, Yoshino Kimura, Shohei Hino, Jun Kunimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, Keiko Takeshita, Jun Fubuki, Sawako Agawa, Shinobu Otake, Karen Takizawa
written by Hayao Miyazaki, music by Joe Hisaishi
anime
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Japan during the later years of World War II: Young Mahito struggles to
come to grips with the death of his mother, and that his father marries
his aunt who's the splitting imageof his mother doesn't help much, neither
does their move to a strange village. Once there though he's soon lured
into a weird mystical parallel world by a heron, a world inhabited by
giant evil parakeets, pirates, demigods and of course more herons, where a
war is going on that shouldn't concern Mahito but that he has to endure in
order to get back to his own world ... Now admittedly, this
isn't a film that always makes perfect sense - but that's a quality of the
best films of Hayao Miyazaki by and large, that they suck one into a world
that radically follows its own logic, without wasting any time to explain
things away, instead letting the thing thrive on its own magic, a strategy
that admittedly doesn't always work out - but it works out with The Boy
and the Heron rather beautifully, a triplike journey into another
world where things basically make a different sort of sense but are
entertaining and enjoyable all the more for it.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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