Boy And The Heron, The (2023)

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Synopsis

Dir: Hayao Miyazaki. Japanese-language Animated/Adventure/Fantasy. Troubled by the death of his mother, a boy (voice of Soma Santoki) exploring an abandoned building is lured into a strange world by a talking heron (voice of Masaki Suda).

Content elements

• Infrequent use of profanity
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence - some blood, little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of monsters and transformations in a fantasy context - no blood, some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Coping with loss
• Responsibility
• Unlikely partnerships

Classification rationale

Rated PG for violence

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