• Director(s)

    Hayao Miyazaki

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    124m

  • Cast

    Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura

Film

The Boy And The Heron

moderate threat, bloody images, brief self-harm

A 12-year-old boy coming to terms with his mother's death meets a talking heron who leads him on an adventure to another world in this meditative Japanese animation; themes of family tragedy and grief are handled sensitively.…

A 12-year-old boy coming to terms with his mother's death meets a talking heron who leads him on an adventure to another world in this meditative Japanese animation; themes of family tragedy and grief are handled sensitively.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

injury detail

suicide and self-harm

theme

alcohol and smoking

sex

  • Director(s)

    Hayao Miyazaki

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    124m

  • Cast

    Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura

moderate threat, bloody images, brief self-harm
Classified Date:
28/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Elysian Film Group Distribution
violence
Violence is mild, often involving fantastical creatures. In some scenes, a boy wields a knife and a bow and arrow he has made to fend off mysterious creatures.
threat and horror
Characters come under threat as they travel through fantastical lands and encounter unusual creatures. Some scenes are surreal in presentation, such as when a woman's body melts into a puddle. Other more real world threat includes repeated flashbacks to an intense fire blazing through a city and firefighters running through specks of burning ash.
language
Bad language is mild ('turd'), accompanied by other even milder terms ('damn').
injury detail
Blood gushes from a boy's head after he strikes himself with a rock. In another scene, blood spurts into a boy's face when he butchers a large fish, followed by fleshy internal organs bulging out of the cut.
suicide and self-harm
A boy, while grieving the loss of his mother and becoming accustomed to his new home, strikes himself in the face with a rock, causing a gush of blood down the side of his face.
theme
There are references to bereavement and scenes of emotional upset.
alcohol and smoking
There are scenes in which adult characters smoke cigarettes and pipes.
moderate threat, bloody images, brief self-harm
Classified Date:
17/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Elysian Film Group Distribution
violence
Violence is mild, often involving fantastical creatures. In some scenes, a boy wields a knife and a bow and arrow he has made to fend off mysterious creatures.
threat and horror
Characters come under threat as they travel through fantastical lands and encounter unusual creatures. Some scenes are surreal in presentation, such as when a woman's body melts into a puddle. Other more real world threat includes repeated flashbacks to an intense fire blazing through a city and firefighters running through specks of burning ash.
language
Bad language is mild ('turd'), accompanied by other even milder terms ('damn').
injury detail
Blood gushes from a boy's head after he strikes himself with a rock. In another scene, blood spurts into a boy's face when he butchers a large fish, followed by fleshy internal organs bulging out of the cut.
suicide and self-harm
A boy, while grieving the loss of his mother and becoming accustomed to his new home, strikes himself in the face with a rock, causing a gush of blood down the side of his face.
theme
There are references to bereavement and scenes of emotional upset.
alcohol and smoking
There are scenes in which adult characters smoke cigarettes and pipes.
moderate threat, bloody images, brief self-harm
Classified Date:
03/10/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Elysian Film Group Distribution
violence
Violence is mild, often involving fantastical creatures. In some scenes, a boy wields a knife and a bow and arrow he has made to fend off mysterious creatures.
threat and horror
Characters come under threat as they travel through fantastical lands and encounter unusual creatures. Some scenes are surreal in presentation, such as when a woman's body melts into a puddle. Other more real world threat includes repeated flashbacks to an intense fire blazing through a city and firefighters running through specks of burning ash.
language
Bad language is mild ('turd'), accompanied by other even milder terms ('damn').
injury detail
Blood gushes from a boy's head after he strikes himself with a rock. In another scene, blood spurts into a boy's face when he butchers a large fish, followed by fleshy internal organs bulging out of the cut.
suicide and self-harm
A boy, while grieving the loss of his mother and becoming accustomed to his new home, strikes himself in the face with a rock, causing a gush of blood down the side of his face.
theme
There are references to bereavement and scenes of emotional upset.
alcohol and smoking
There are scenes in which adult characters smoke cigarettes and pipes.
moderate threat, bloody images, brief self-harm
Classified Date:
25/07/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Elysian Film Group Distribution
violence
Violence is mild, often involving fantastical creatures. In some scenes, a boy wields a knife and a bow and arrow he has made to fend off mysterious creatures.
threat and horror
Characters come under threat as they travel through fantastical lands and encounter unusual creatures. Some scenes are surreal in presentation, such as when a woman's body melts into a puddle. Other more real world threat includes repeated flashbacks to an intense fire blazing through a city and firefighters running through specks of burning ash.
language
Bad language is mild ('turd'), accompanied by other even milder terms ('damn').
injury detail
Blood gushes from a boy's head after he strikes himself with a rock. In another scene, blood spurts into a boy's face when he butchers a large fish, followed by fleshy internal organs bulging out of the cut.
suicide and self-harm
A boy, while grieving the loss of his mother and becoming accustomed to his new home, strikes himself in the face with a rock, causing a gush of blood down the side of his face.
theme
There are references to bereavement and scenes of emotional upset.
alcohol and smoking
There are scenes in which adult characters smoke cigarettes and pipes.
Classified Date:
10/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Elysian Film Group Distribution
Classified Date:
31/10/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Elysian Film Group Distribution

  • Classified date

    03/10/2024

  • Language

    Japanese