Hayao! Let’s go! After 10 lengthy years away from our screens, legendary filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is making a comeback with a model new film. And while The Boy & The Heron – previously often called How Do You Live? – was infamously launched with no advertising and marketing and no trailer in Miyazaki’s native Japan, over right here the promo hype prepare has been slowly constructing for some time now. With that being mentioned, right here is the model spanking new trailer that simply dropped for Ghibli’s newest fantasy epic.
Opening with dramatic photographs of The Boy & The Heron’s younger hero Mahito working by way of a Tokyo ablaze with fireplace, calling for his mom, this minute-long teaser swiftly then sees him relocated to an previous nation home (large My Neighbour Totoro vibes) earlier than stumbling upon what seems to be like a woodland tunnel to a different world (large Totoro-meets-Spirited Away vibes). There, we glimpse unusual encounters with colleges of fish and frogs, get our first correct have a look at the warawara, a girl who melts right into a puddle when Mahito touches her (as you do), and see an amazing flaming sprite-lady (large Totoro-meets-Spirited Away-meets-Howl’s Moving Castle vibes), as enigmatic titles announce “Where loss of life involves an finish, life finds a brand new starting.” It’s all very mysterious! A brand new UK poster for the movie has additionally been launch, see beneath.
Described in its official synopsis as “a semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, loss of life, and creation, in tribute to friendship,” the plot for Miyazaki’s newest movie has been largely stored below wraps up to now. Taking its unique title from a Genzaburō Yoshino novel the filmmaker was given by his mom as a baby, nonetheless, we will presume that this story – which sees Mahito coping with the lack of his personal mom, and embarking on a fantastical journey right into a world the place the residing and useless co-exist with a Pazuzu-sounding Grey Heron – shall be as emotionally poignant as it’s completely bizarre.
With The Boy And The Heron’s stacked English-language voice forged solely only recently introduced, and the movie’s launch date inching ever nearer, we don’t have lengthy left earlier than we get to enter Miyazaki’s kingdom of goals and insanity as soon as once more and discover out its secrets and techniques for ourselves. “About time you got here.” Indeed Mr. Grey Heron, it’s!
The Boy And The Heron is in UK cinemas from 26 December.
