With Hayao Miyazaki directing, Isao Takahata producing, and Joe Hisaishi composing, you could not ask for a better dream team ...

Titled Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron ... translated by CBR), leading some to believe it could be a sequel to 1984's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Whether The Boy and the Heron is Miyazaki's ...

Hayao Miyazaki (Miyazaki Hayao ... his other films such as Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities.

But most surprising of all, it was the first work by Goro Miyazaki to win a rare, rave review from his father and world-famous director, Hayao Miyazaki, who had been critical of his previous films ...