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The Boy and the Heron Will Come to Netflix in U.K.
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Netflix's distribution of the film is described as "beginning on October 7" although it is not specified if it will be available in the UK on that date. (The announcement does mention that the film will be available in France in 2025.) However, The Boy and the Heron is already listed as forthcoming on Netflix's main page.
The Boy and the Heron film won Best Animated Feature Film in the 96th Academy Awards ceremony in March. It was Miyazaki's second film to win after Spirited Away in 2003.
The film won Animation of the Year in the 47th annual Japan Academy Film Prizes and won the Best Motion Picture - Animated category at the 81st Golden Globes Awards earlier this year. The film also won awards from the Annie Awards (for storyboarding and character animation) and the British Academy Film Awards (for animated film). The Alliance of Women Film Journalists gave it the Best Animated Film award in its EDA Awards on December 31. The 78th Mainichi Film Awards announced ahead of its February 14 ceremony that the film would receive the Noburou Oofuji Award, which honors animated works that offer new forms of creative expression.
The film opened in Japan in July 2023, and sold 1.003 million tickets and earned about US$13.2 million in its first three days in Japan. The film sold 1.353 million tickets and earned 2.149 billion yen (about US$15.53 million) in its Friday-Monday long weekend (July 17 was the Marine Day holiday in Japan). It is the #71 highest-grossing film ever in Japan, and the third highest-grossing domestic film in Japan in 2023 with an 8.66 billion yen (about US$61.4 million) gross.
