Where death comes to an end, life finds a new beginning.
The Boy and the Heron
86Standing
15th of 224 in Japanese Cinema
- Out-grossed 98% of Japanese Cinema releases with reported figures ($294M).
- Returned 5.9× its budget, against an industry median of 6.3×.
- Momentum in the 100th percentile.
- Audience rating 7.4 from 2,835 votes, the 51st percentile.
- Cost
- $50M
- Took
- $294M
Blockbuster5.9× its cost
Against a Japanese Cinema median of 6.3×, so this one returned 0.9 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
The picture
A young boy named Mahito ventures into a magical world after his mother's death.
- Released
- 8 December 2024
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- Language
- Japanese
- Industry
- Japanese Cinema
Top billedAll 19 credits
- Soma SantokiMahito Maki (voice)
- Masaki SudaGray Heron (voice)
- Ko ShibasakiKiriko (voice)
- AimyonLady Himi (voice)
- Yoshino KimuraNatsuko (voice)
- Takuya KimuraShoichi Maki (voice)
Made by
- Director
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Screenplay
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Original Music Composer
- Joe Hisaishi
- Director of Photography
- Atsushi Okui
- Producer
- Toshio Suzuki