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The Boy and the Heron

2023 · Animation · Hayao Miyazaki · 2h 4m

During the war a Tokyo boy is moved out to his family's country estate after losing his mother, and a talking heron leads him into a tower with another world inside. It wanders, and the rules are never explained.

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