The Boy and the Heron

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy ventures into a dreamlike world shared by the living and the dead in search of his missing stepmother.

The Boy and the Heron is a 2023 drama adventure movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki, starring Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon, Soma Santoki. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.3/10 from 141,337 votes and runs 2h 4m.