And the big winner of the category Best Animated Film of the Golden Globes 2024 was the anime film The Boy and the Crane (The Boy and the Heron) directed by the renowned director Hayao Miyazaki at the Studio Ghibli.
They were nominated for best animated film at the 81st edition of the Golden Globe Awards (Golden Globe Awards):
• The Boy and the Crane (The Boy and the Heron)
• Elemental
• Spider-man: Across The Spider-verse
• The Super Mario Bros. movie
• Suzume (Suzume no Tojimari)
• Wish
The anime film The Boy and the Crane (The Boy and the Heron) is directed by the renowned director Hayao Miyazaki and known in Japan as How Do You Live? (Kimi-tachi wa Dou Ikiru ka). This is of course an anime film by the famous Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away; My Neighbor Totoro; The Walking Castle; Princess Mononoke).
The director Hayao Miyazaki is credited with the original work as well as directing the film and writing the story. Takeshi Honda (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Rebuild of Evangelion films) is the animation director. Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro) composed the music. The co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Toshio Suzukiis the producer.
The cast includes: Soma Santoki, Aimyon, Ko Shibasaki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura, Yoshino Kimura, Keiko Takeshita, Jun Fubuki, Sawako Agawa, Karen Takizawa, Shinobu Otake, Jun Kunimura, Kaoru Kobayashi and Shōhei Hino.
Miyazaki was inspired by this anime film in the novel How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino, from 1937. He added that this book is a story that has great meaning for the protagonist of his film.
Synopsis of How Do You Live?
The story takes place during World War II. After Mahito loses his mother during the Tokyo bombings, he and his father move to the countryside. There, Mahito’s father remarries his late mother’s pregnant sister. As Mahito struggles with his situation, he encounters a talking heron and enters another world with the promise that he can find his mother again.
