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[SUBS] The Boy and the Heron (2023, Studio Ghibli) Streaming @ Netflix

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[SUBS] The Boy and the Heron (2023, Studio Ghibli) Streaming @ Netflix
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tempting on 16/10/2024 - 13:21 netflix.com (689 clicks)

‘The Boy and the Heron’ to Stream on Netflix Around the World Starting October 7

As part of its ongoing effort to expand its broad lineup of animated films from Japan, Netflix announced that ‘The Boy and the Heron’, the Oscar®-winning and Golden Globe®-winning animated film from Japan’s Studio Ghibli, will be exclusively distributed on service beginning October 7, excluding Japan and the United States. (In France, the film will be available in 2025.)

Netflix currently offers 22 Studio Ghibli films to its members around the world (excluding Japan and the United States), through its recently announced partnership extension with Goodfellas and GKIDS. In 2024, Netflix added new animated film titles such as Suzume, THE FIRST SLAM DUNK and Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies which will start streaming on September 16, so more viewers around the world will have the opportunity to discover best-in-class animated films from Japan.

The Boy and the Heron is an animated masterpiece set in Japan during the war. The story unfolds when Mahito, a boy who lost his mother in a fire, moves from Tokyo to the countryside where his mother’s family lives and is lured into a mysterious world where life and death are intertwined by a talking heron, the seven old women who live in the house among other fascinating characters.

Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film in 10 years, this critically-acclaimed fantasy adventure is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Oscar®️-winning director.

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  • AngusD on 16/10/2024 - 13:59
    +10

    Saw this in the cinema. Great movie.

  • ne-us on 16/10/2024 - 14:04
    +6

    The new Dragonball Daima will start on Netflix this Saturday. Also Ranma 1/2 is already on there.

    • AlexTheKidd on 16/10/2024 - 15:27
      +1

      Thought it was on Crunchyroll?

      • ne-us on 16/10/2024 - 15:53
        +1

        It’s already on Crunchyroll. It will also be on Netflix for those who don’t want to subscribe to anime streaming.

    • John on 17/10/2024 - 00:28
      +2

      Love Ranma 1/2. Fun watch. Can’t wait for Dragonball

    • smashedpotato on 17/10/2024 - 13:26
      +1

      HOLLYYYY. I’m so psyched for Dragon Ball!

      RIP Akira Toriyama.

  • zuruhara on 16/10/2024 - 14:22
    -1

    is it free?

    • LostyJai on 16/10/2024 - 14:29
      +1

      It's free if you have Netflix.

      • boredofficeworker on 16/10/2024 - 17:54
        +4

        “Its free if you already paid for it”

        • zuruhara on 18/10/2024 - 11:45

          confusing

  • Pancake Moon on 16/10/2024 - 14:29
    +4

    How do you live?

    • plmko on 16/10/2024 - 14:41
      +1

      Wake up and realise having insanely rich parents solves everything.

      • FujinShu on 16/10/2024 - 14:44
        +1

        Exactly!
        We’re descending back to feudalism baby!!!!!
        Can’t wait for all the rich children to become the heirs of their rich families’ fortune to start more businesses that can abuse poorer families!!!

  • orly on 16/10/2024 - 14:52
    -2

    I must be in the minority that find Studio Ghibli movies just bizarre with no rhyme or reason. I much prefer the works of Makoto Shinkai.

    • congo on 16/10/2024 - 14:54

      Both studios are great

    • SigmaSenpai78 on 16/10/2024 - 15:17
      +2

      Shinkai's only good movie is Your Name, the others followed the same formula but weren't as good. At least Miyazaki has some variety in his work.

      • ForkSnorter on 16/10/2024 - 16:31

        Agree. Your Name was good. Gone down hill since then. Suzume is one of the worst Anime I've seen. The story was utterly unoriginal, did not make sense at all, milked elements from about 20 previous anime movies, and seems like it was intended merely to manipulate the emotions of 11-year-olds.

        • mackdiddy on 16/10/2024 - 16:46

          I mostly just disliked the way she treated the cat lol

      • Ventak on 16/10/2024 - 18:55

        He did films pre-Your Name as well - some might even say they're the better films, before he went for mainstream appeal with Your Name onwards.

    • KiKH on 16/10/2024 - 16:02
      +1

      I would say almost all of Ghibli films are very thematically straightforward and wear their motifs on their sleeves.

    • mackdiddy on 16/10/2024 - 16:42

      I like the other ones but did kinda feel that way about this one.

      Shinkai hasn't been able to live up to Your Name though. Weathering With You and Suzume were alright, but Your Name is just next level.

    • ForkSnorter on 16/10/2024 - 16:49
      +2

      Spirited Away was a hard-hitting environmental commentary about the destruction of Japan's nature and beauty and traditions by modern consumerist society. It had a story that appealed to both adults and children, while paying homage to about 200 years of classic fantasies and fairy tales (both literature and movies). It's not at all lacking "rhyme or reason".

      It won about 50 film awards worldwide, including some that had never been won by an animated film before, and many critics list it among the greatest animated films of all time (if not the greatest), and among the greatest films of all time.

      • RAYGUN117 on 17/10/2024 - 09:29
        -2

        Ghibli movies absolutely are lacking rhyme or reason. Have you seen The Boy and The Heron? It is by far the worse offender but all the Ghibli movies are still guilty of it. There is no justification on world mechanics, power systems or character scaling. Characters just pull abilities out of nowhere and every plot point feels like a disjointed ass pull.

        The Heron is shown to have water magic at the start. Then decides to never use this again during the tsunami or to make a water distraction against the parakeets. Is there a power system? Or a mana system? Why can't he suddenly do it? Because Miyazaki is a terrible writer who doesn't care about making good stories.

        The Heron is clearly an intelligent being yet leaves his one weakness, his feathers on the ground to be used against him for no reason. Miyazaki relies on incompetent characters to move the plot because he's a terrible film maker.

        Also, there's no explanation on why putting a feather on an arrow instantly turns it into an instakill homing arrow too. Imagine if they defeat Darth Vader by putting his skin on a blaster that instantly turns it into a homing instakill shot, that would be bad writing right? But Ghibli always gets a pass.

        I could write a massive essay on all the plot holes and terrible writing in the Ghibli movies but you get the point. Baffling how anyone could think these movies are good.

    • RAYGUN117 on 17/10/2024 - 09:23
      -2

      No you're 100% right. Ghibli movies have no world building or logic and no justification for any power systems. Characters just do things without explanation and there's no character scaling too. It's baffling how anyone can enjoy these terribly written movies. It's like they didn't even try to make a good story.

  • Hongsontan on 16/10/2024 - 15:16

    Great film, watched it yesterday

  • doggmatic on 16/10/2024 - 15:32

    Love ghibli movies - found this one a bit bizarre though but still worth a watch watch

  • ForkSnorter on 16/10/2024 - 16:35
    +3

    Miyazaki Hayao still hasn't improved on Spirited Away, but I'll watch this because his movies always have some kind of nostalgic mood and interesting animation.

    • shabaka on 16/10/2024 - 18:00
      +3

      I reckon the best one is Porco Rosso, but The Wind is Rising pretty much beats it. everything else is downhill IMO including this one, which has no real story. I watched it and couldn't figure out what was I supposed to learn from it

  • edBARGAIN on 16/10/2024 - 16:35

    thanks wanted to watch this didnt know it was streaming on netflix

  • DONMAI on 16/10/2024 - 16:40
    +2

    Does anybody remember when IMDB had comments/forum threads?

    • Drakster on 16/10/2024 - 19:39
      +1

      Yeah, I kind of miss those, despite the constant garbage found there.

      There's a website that has an extension to bring them back, although I hadn't tried it myself.
      https://filmboards.com/

  • bigbadboogieman on 16/10/2024 - 16:46

    It was a mind eff movie so I kind of liked it. Felt like an extended nightmare that I was watching on TV.

  • abadacus on 16/10/2024 - 19:40

    Such a strange movie

  • dws on 16/10/2024 - 20:15

    More Miyazaki schlop

  • Niko123456 on 18/10/2024 - 08:20

    I wonder if the subtitles will match the dubbing.

    You can usually watch two films at once with Ghibli because of the way two stories are presented at the same time.

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