Ahead of its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, GKIDS has released a first trailer for The Boy and The Heron, the eagerly-anticipated animated feature from Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki which follows the psychological journey of Mahito, a teenage boy, as he enters a magical world with a talking heron after discovering an abandoned tower in his new town.
Check out the trailer below, along with some newly-released images from the anime feature…
A young boy named Mahito, yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
The Boy and The Heron arrives in cinemas on December 8th.
