Miyazaki scoops second Oscar with ‘The Boy and the Heron’

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TOKYO, March 11 — Celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki won his second Oscar yesterday with The Boy and the Heron — the Studio Ghibli co-founder’s first film in a...

The film, about a boy who moves to the countryside during World War II, won best animated feature, the same award scooped in 2003 by Miyazaki’sis a visual feast in which mysterious creatures and strange characters cavort through a fantastical world.After his mother dies in the haunting fire-bombing of Tokyo during World War II, the boy, Mahito, struggles to accept his new life with his father and pregnant stepmother, who goes missing.

And while he did not set out to make an autobiography, the film’s father character “is very much like my own father”, he said. However, in an about-turn four years later, his production company said he was coming out of retirement to make what would be “his final film, considering his age”., which was released in Japan last July without trailers or other advertising, meaning cinema audiences had little idea of what to expect.

 

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