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Miyazaki Didn’t Lose a Step
Back from temporary retirement, Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film, The Boy and the Heron, is a reminder of what makes him an animation legend.
Everyone has their favorite Hayao M iyazaki movie, and mine is Porco Rosso, the 1992 adventures of a World War I flying ace turned bounty hunter with the face of a swine — a transformation that reflects how disillusioned he has become with humanity. Miyazaki returns to that idea in the tremendous The Boy and the Heron, his first film in a decade, when 12-year-old Mahito Maki (voiced by Soma Santoki) finds his way to a magical kingdom of strange seas dotted with islands and overgrown shipwrecks. The bothersome bird keeps trying to lure him to the crumbling tower sitting out in the woods, and when Natsuko goes missing one day, Mahito finally makes his way to the library inside, and then to the other universe, where he meets up with a swashbuckling sailor (Kô Shibasaki), groups of ravenous pelicans, and a girl with the power of fire (Aimyon).
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