$26.96
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
FREE delivery Wednesday, July 10 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Or fastest Release Day delivery Tuesday, July 9
This title will be released on July 9, 2024.
Pre-order now.
$$26.96 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$26.96
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon.com
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Added to

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.

The Boy and the Heron - Blu-ray + DVD

Christian Bale (Actor), Dave Bautista (Actor), Hayao Miyazaki (Director, Writer) Rated:
PG-13
Format: Blu-ray
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
IMDb7.6/10.0
$26.96 with 23 percent savings
List Price: $34.98

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime
FREE Returns
Pre-order Price Guarantee. Terms
Additional Blu-ray options Edition Discs
Price
New from Used from
Blu-ray
July 9, 2024
Blu-ray + DVD
2
$26.96
$26.96 —
Watch Instantly with Rent Buy
The Boy and the Heron — $19.99
Genre Science Fiction & Fantasy, Anime & Manga, Art House & International, Action & Adventure See more
Format Blu-ray, Subtitled
Contributor Christian Bale, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Luca Padovan, Hayao Miyazaki, Karen Fukuhara, Robert Pattinson, Mark Hamill, Toshio Suzuki, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh See more
Language English
Runtime 2 hours and 4 minutes

Frequently bought together

The Boy and the Heron - Blu-ray + DVD
$26.96
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Jul 10
This title will be released on July 9, 2024.
Pre-order now.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
Dune: Part Two (4K Ultra HD + Digital) [4K UHD]
$29.96
Get it as soon as Wednesday, May 29
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
Civil War 4K + Bluray + Digital AMZ Exclusive [4K UHD]
$24.57
This title has not yet been released.
You may pre-order it now and we will deliver it to you when it arrives.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Details
Added to Cart
spCSRF_Control
Some of these items ship sooner than the others.
Show details Hide details
Choose items to buy together.

From the manufacturer

The Boy and the Heron header

Mahito

The Grey Heron

Lady Himi

Mahito

A young boy yearning for his mother.

The Grey Heron

A sly trickster and messenger from another world.

Lady Himi

A kind girl with the power to conjure fire.

The Boy and the Heron Blu-ray

Product Description

From the legendary Studio Ghibli and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) comes a critically-acclaimed fantasy adventure. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family's estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito's new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself. Featuring the voices of Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh.

]>

Product details

  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.8 x 5.45 x 0.55 inches; 7.04 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Hayao Miyazaki
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 4 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ July 9, 2024
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Toshio Suzuki
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ SHOUT! FACTORY
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D1334CZC
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Hayao Miyazaki
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

Customer reviews

4 out of 5 stars
4 out of 5
15 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Phil O'Neal
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Miyazaki’s Best
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024
the kingdom of dreams and madness is crumbling.

The Wind Rises is a beautiful, mature film crafted with incredible artistry, but i can’t shake the feeling that it’s underwhelming as a final glimpse into the mind that has created the most fantastical worlds ever imagined.

The Boy and the Heron is a metaphorical and literal last journey through that mind, and plays like a greatest hits of each of the worlds he’s created. it’s a glorious, triumphant, bittersweet encore, and a perfect farewell.
8 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Jeff M
5.0 out of 5 stars Hope you saw at the big screen, incredible, can't wait for this on disc to watch over and over.
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024
The master is an even deeper thinker than before (and that's saying something), so to truly assimilate all the wonderful underling meanings/messages (what all his movies had) realize its a full course meal that takes a few watches to fully digest. And don't waste your time reading others here who throw hissy-fits over trivial things, you are what you read so do yourself a favor and watch the movie for the professional drama (with a happy ending), you'll be better for it 🤩.
9 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Funk
1.0 out of 5 stars Not Consistent with the Other Steelbooks
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2024
Please, for the love of everything, release a version of this movie that has a minimalistic steelbook like nearly every other Ghibli release. I will never buy this as it will not match the others. I have all of the other ones (except Earwig and the Witch, of course) and I will not be buying this one. The cover is lovely, but it sticks out compared to the others. Very disappointing.

Also, re-release the Grave of the Fireflies!!!
5 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Reviewer
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2024
I'm not an anime fan but the superb art of the movie is undeniable for anyone. My family will love the steelbook as a momento to seeing it on the big screen. I hope the disc does not arrive scratched as this review is done during preorder.

In short the movie is amazing.
3 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
E. A. Solinas
4.0 out of 5 stars The tower of many worlds
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024
Hayao Miyazaki is one of those artists that needs no introduction, a brilliant storyteller whose characters and richly-developed stories include tales of flying pigs and walking castles, forest gods and floating cities, preschooler mermaids and fantastical bathhouses. So even when nobody really knew what the plot was, “The Boy And The Heron” was already an alluring prospect.

And while perhaps not his most accessible film, it’s nevertheless a gripping piece of work – half semi-autobiographical tale of a young Japanese boy during World War II, half fantasy story about a strange fantastical world of long-forgotten family secrets. It often feels like Miyazaki is musing on the exquisite yet flawed process of creating a fantasy world, the unique minds that nurture them, and the creativity that future generations should have.

During World War II, a young boy named Mahito Maki (Luca Padovan) loses his beloved mother in a terrible hospital fire. A year or so later, his father Shoichi (Christian Bale) marries his late wife’s sister Natsuko (Gemma Chan). Mahito isn’t pleased by this – including the fact that his aunt/stepmother is pregnant – and he definitely isn’t happy to be moving to her remote country estate. His schoolmates are hostile, and the only company in the house is the bickering elderly servants.

But he soon finds himself fascinated by a strange grey heron living in a pond nearby, and a strange stone tower that everyone warns him away from. When Natsuko wanders off and disappears, Mahito is drawn into the tower by the heron (actually a little man in a magic suit), who lures him with the promise of finding his mother again.

Instead, he finds himself in a strange fantasy world dominated by oceans and stone monuments, of blobby little spirits and a pyrokinetic girl named Lady Himi, who fends off hordes of talking pelicans. With the heron-man as his companion, he finds that his stepmother has fallen into the clutches of a civilization of talking, meat-eating parakeets – and to help her, he may have to take on responsibility for the entire world.

“The Boy And The Heron” is not Hayao Miyazaki’s most accessible film in many ways. It’s one of those films that may be a little confusing on your first viewing, but which increases in richness with subsequent watchings. It’s also one of those stories that lends itself to multiple symbolic interpretations, the most obvious – in my view, anyway – being that the existence of the other world is symbolic of a creative mind constructing its own universe in the process of storytelling, its flaws, and the need for younger creatives to take up the mantle.

And those mysteries and schemes are coiled around a hauntingly melancholy fantasy story – the world Mahito encounters is oddly empty despite its beauty and strangeness, like a vast cathedral with no people in it. It has an edge of wrongness and danger that always makes you feel like the hero is balancing on a knife’s edge, even from things that seem like they should be ridiculous (the man-eating parakeets are surprisingly unnerving). But even in that, Miyazaki works in some fun moments as well, such as Shoichi thinking Mahito has turned into a parakeet, or when Mahito has to deal with the heron-man.

And because this is Hayao Miyazaki, the entire story is lusciously animated – this is 2-D animation at its peak, distinctively Studio Ghibli in style, and detailed to the point where you can practically feel the frogs, the mossy stones, the feathers, the creaking wood. Miyazaki crafts visuals that are hauntingly beautiful and dreamlike, allowing Mahito to drift through strange, sometimes ethereal landscapes populated by strange creatures.

Mahito is a slightly weak spot in an otherwise lovely movie, simply because he’s much less expressive than many of Miyazaki’s other heroes. We know that he desperately misses his mother and isn’t happy about his father’s marriage, but it’s hard to tell what his exact emotions are much of the time, or how they will naturally lead to actions like constructing a bow-and-arrow. Fortunately he opens up more once he travels into the other world, especially when interacting with the exuberant Lady Himi (whose true identity is pretty easy to guess), the tomboyish Kiriko, or the heron-man (whose weird, slightly sinister and sometimes pathetic personality is a good contrast to Mahito’s more restrained one).

The English voice acting is uniformly good in this film, with actors such as Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Mark Hamill and Willem Dafoe all giving excellent performances. Special shout-out to Robert Pattinson, who immediately earns his voice-acting cred by giving an excellent performance in a creaky, slightly sinister voice that sounds completely unlike his usual voice – watching the movie, you completely forget who’s performing the role, and just lose yourself in the voice-acting.

“The Boy And The Heron” has a few rough spots, but it’s still a strikingly lovely, symbolically-rich fantasy adventure that leaves you feeling melancholy yet hopeful. May Miyazaki give us more worlds to explore.
4 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
mary bryant
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2024
Great movie thank you
Helpful
 Report
JJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Miyazaki Does It Again!
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024
I'm so happy that this film is coming to home video and especially steelbook. Everytime I watch this movie I make new connections and notice things I hadn't before. I'm eager to see what new things I pick up this time around!
3 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Jack Dashing
1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously, why is there no Digital copy included???
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024
I often work out of state, and can only bring my laptop with me. For $34 (already more than every other blu ray preorder) it should have easily come with a digital code as well. This is a customary thing with new releases. If no code is included, this should only be $19.99 to $22.99
17 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report