It tells the story of a young boy who moves to the Japanese countryside after losing his mother in a hospital fire and encounters a magical grey heron. It’s said to draw heavily from Miyazaki ...

The Boy and the Heron' is Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's first ... like singer-actors Masaki Suda (as the Grey Heron), Ko Shibasaki (as Kiriko) and Takuya Kimura (as Shoichi Maki), as well ...

Mahito is led into a magical labyrinth inside the tower by a man with the body of a grey heron, who tells the boy that he will find Natsuko, who has abruptly disappeared, and his dead mother there.