Miyazaki’s hand-drawn animated movie was opened in Japan earlier this month with the highest box-office for the famed film maker’s Studio Ghibli production company
After centring its summer programming around the cinema of Japan, TIFF will launch its September festival with the latest production from one of the country’s greatest living directors.
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron will have its international premiere as the official opening-night film of the 48th annual Toronto International Film Festival, programmers announced Thursday. Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s latest file The Boy and the Heron will have its international premiere as the official opening-night film for this year's TIFF.The hand-drawn animated movie was released in Japan earlier this month, becoming the biggest box-office opening in the history of Miyazaki’s famed Studio Ghibli production company.
“We are honoured to open the 48th Toronto International Film Festival with the work of one of cinema’s greatest artists,” Cameron Bailey, chief executive of TIFF, said in a statement. “Already acclaimed as a masterpiece in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki’s new film begins as a simple story of loss and love and rises to a staggering work of imagination.”
The director’s first feature in a decade, the fantasy follows a young child who discovers an abandoned tower in his new town, where he encounters a talking grey bird. Said to be in line with Miyazaki’s best-known works – including
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