The Boy and The Heron (2023)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki · Cinematography by Atsushi Okui
PG-13124 min66 frames
AnimationAdventureFantasyDrama
Where death comes to an end, life finds a new beginning.
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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 a 2023 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Produced by Studio Ghibli, the film's Japanese title references Genzaburō Yoshino's 1937 novel How Do You Live? but is not an adaptation of it. The film stars the voices of Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, and Shinobu Otake. It follows a boy named Mahito Maki who moves to the countryside after his mother's death, discovers an abandoned tower near his new home, and enters a fantastical world with a talking grey heron.
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Sampled across 66 frames, the coverage of The Boy and The Heron leans on wide compositions (42% of the sample) and medium shots (27%). Cinematographer Atsushi Okui keeps 73% of it in naturalistic light. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 94% of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Boy and The Heron (2023) are #302f2c, #f5f5f4, #88ae50, #f7ecaf, #463831, #d1b88d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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