The Boy and the Heron

Synopsis

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."

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Cast

Soma Santoki

Mahito Maki (voice)

Masaki Suda

Gray Heron (voice)

Ko Shibasaki

Kiriko (voice)

Aimyon

Lady Himi (voice)

Yoshino Kimura

Natsuko (voice)

Takuya Kimura

Shoichi Maki (voice)

Keiko Takeshita

Izumi (voice)

Jun Fubuki

Utako (voice)

Sawako Agawa

Eriko (voice)

Karen Takizawa

Warawara (voice)

Shinobu Otake

Aiko (voice)

Jun Kunimura

The Parakeet King (voice)

Kaoru Kobayashi

Noble Pelican (voice)

Shōhei Hino

Granduncle (voice)

Crew

Art

• Noboru Yoshida Background Designer
• Kazuo Oga Background Designer
• Yoichi Nishikawa Background Designer
• Yumi Ishii Background Designer
• Minori Takayama Background Designer
• Yui Onodera Background Designer
• Kosuke Hayashi Background Designer
• Ai Omori Background Designer
• Ayahi Shimomura Background Designer
• Saki Kurobe Background Designer
• Nanako Yagi Background Designer
• Hayao Miyazaki Storyboard Artist

Camera

• Atsushi Okui Director of Photography

Crew

• Tamaki Kojo Post Production Supervisor

Directing

• Kazuyoshi Katayama Assistant Director
• Shintarou Nakazawa Second Unit First Assistant Director
• Chihiro Okada Second Unit First Assistant Director
• Hayao Miyazaki Director

Editing

• Takeshi Seyama Editor
• Akane Shiraishi Editor
• Rie Matsubara Editor

Production

• Kiyofumi Nakajima Executive Producer
• Goro Miyazaki Executive Producer
• Yoshiaki Nishimura Co-Producer
• Koji Hoshino Executive Producer
• Toshio Suzuki Producer
• Takuya Ohno Casting
• Yuji Tange Casting
• Hideki Fukaya Line Producer
• Yumiko Mihara Production Assistant
• Ayako Yasuda Production Assistant

Sound

• Koji Kasamatsu Sound Director
• Mika Yamaguchi Foley Artist
• Koji Kasamatsu Sound Mixer
• Kenshi Yonezu Theme Song Performance
• Joe Hisaishi Original Music Composer
• Shuuji Suzuki ADR Mixer
• Yasutomo Yamada ADR Mixer
• Tsutomu Kawahigashi Dolby Consultant
• Joe Hisaishi Conductor
• Eriko Kimura Other

Visual Effects

• Toshiyuki Inoue Key Animation
• Hideki Hamasu Key Animation
• Ai Takashi Key Animation
• Yoshimi Itazu Key Animation
• Atsuko Fukushima Key Animation
• Atsuko Otani Key Animation
• Atsuko Tanaka Key Animation
• Eiji Yamamori Key Animation
• Hiroomi Yamakawa Key Animation
• Susumu Mitsunaka Key Animation
• Takayuki Hamada Key Animation
• Takeshi Inamura Key Animation

Writing

• Hayao Miyazaki Original Story
• Hayao Miyazaki Screenplay

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