Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-Winning 'The Boy and the Heron' Returns to Theaters Nationwide March 22nd

Screenings To Include Exclusive New Bonus Content With Golden Globe®-Nominated Composer Takeshi Honda

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NEW YORK (March 14, 2024) – In celebration of the Academy Award win for Best Animated Feature for Florence Pugh.

The weekend's achievement at the Academy Awards marked a second Oscar for legendary director Hayao Miyazaki, who earned four previous nominations and won his first Oscar for Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award.

About “THE BOY AND THE HERON”
After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family's estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito's new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself.

About GKIDS
Founded in 2008, GKIDS is the Academy Award®-winning producer and distributor of artist-driven and Academy Award-winning animation from around the world. The company handles North American distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli library of films, one of the world's most coveted animation collections with the titles Spirited Away, NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. GKIDS is also the founder and host of Animation Is Film, the annual LA-based film festival which embraces animation as a cinematic art form and is a vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of the medium to its fullest range of artistic expressions. www.GKIDS.com