The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazakiβs Academy Award-winning animated masterpiece, is being launched in a limited-edition Steelbook 4K Extremely HD set on Tuesday, June ninth (pre-order right here).
The 2-disc set consists of quite a lot of bonus options, together with interviews with composer Joe Hisaishi, producer Toship Suzuki, and animation supervisor Takeshi Honda; feature-length storyboards; a βSpinning Globeβ music video; an unique poster; and extra.
Along with the limited-edition Steelbook, The Boy and the Heron can be out there in standalone Blu-ray + DVD and 4K Extremely HD + Blu-ray packages. It marks the first-ever title from Studio Ghibli to be launched on 4K UHD.
The English dub of The Boy and the Heron boasts a formidable A-list voice forged, together with Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Mark Hamill, and Gemma Chan.
In his evaluate of the movie, Clint Worthington referred to as The Boy and the Heron βa powerful closing flourish that folds collectively lots of the thematic and aesthetic threads [Miyazakiβs] explored by way of his profession: manβs relationship to nature, the majesty of flight, the dual pulls of affection and loss. Itβs beautiful and inscrutable and measures among the many better of his works.β
