The Boy and the Heron
Movie • 2023 • Animation
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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greenseaturtle
Natsuko wanders off into the woods without saying goodbye to her husband or stepson. Mahito follows her, also without saying goodbye or telling anyone where he is going. Both are alive and safe at the end of the film.
In another sense of the word "leaving", Mahito's mother dies in a firebombing without her family with her.
In another sense of the word "leaving", Mahito's mother dies in a firebombing without her family with her.
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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Jadespade
The main character is stalked by the heron in the first third of the movie.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Addiction
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Cadenmin04
Just tobacco
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Is there addiction?
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Jadespade
Some of the elders enjoy smoking and get excited about having tobacco/cigarettes, though this excitement is mainly because of their rarity as a result of the war.
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Animal
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goblinbrodie
A pelican dies.
A fish is killed for food.
A fish is killed for food.
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Is there a dead animal?
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a pelican dies and it’s a bit graphic
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Is an animal sad?
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Cadenmin04
A Pelican pleads to be put out of his misery/killed
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Are there spiders?
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Crow75
This might sound strange, but there is a giant fish they catch, that resembles a spider. (No actual spiders, though, just other bugs in a scene.)
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Are there bugs?
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Crow75
Later they crawl through a tunnel that might be like seweg, and there there are a lot of bugs, but I think only in that scene.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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goblinbrodie
Main character gets into a fight, I think he was being physically bullied. Scene is short and shown from a distance.
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Is someone restrained?
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goblinbrodie
Main character chained by the wrists at one point.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Anonymous
There’s a scene where they are carrying around huge knives and cut into a giant fish and it’s guts spill out
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Is there cannibalism?
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greenseaturtle
No cannibalism, but there are giant human-eating parakeets.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Anonymous
In the very beginning of the movie there’s a huge fire killing many people. Another scene many people die from a building collapse
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Is someone burned alive?
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goblinbrodie
Not shown graphically. Ghost of person is later a featured character.
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Is there body horror?
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goblinbrodie
In a way. A bird has a man's face emerge from its beak very gradually, starting with teeth - it's a disturbing image.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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goblinbrodie
Main character faints at one point.
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Is someone tortured?
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Pollinatewildly
Children are painfully zapped by rocks as a deterrent/security system
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Crow75
They do fall down towards the end from a tall wooden structure, that works as stairs, when it collapses. They don't get hurt, though.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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hanasaseru
Some people fall in a building collapse, and it's implied that some died. Also the main character comes close more than once
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Is someone stabbed?
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Crow75
The dead body of a giant fish gets quite graphicly stabbed.
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Is there excessive gore?
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greenseaturtle
Not "excessive", but there is a noteworthy scene where 2 characters are gutting a large fish: oversized organs spill out gruesomely. It's quite sudden and probably not for the faint of heart.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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hanasaseru
This is a difficult question to answer, due to the nature of the movie, but ultimately no one dies during the movie except for at the very beginning.
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Does a non-human character die?
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Jadespade
A talking pelican.
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Does someone die?
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Jadespade
The movie starts with the off-screen death of the main character's mother.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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jjstarA113
[MINOR] The heron sometimes appears outside the windows of the estate, which might be startling for some but is never an outright jumpscare. [MAJOR] Mahito stares down the steps at night, then suddenly fire engulfs the bottom floor in what turns out to be a nightmare. [MINOR] Mahito finds a stick in the bathroom which had earlier been broken; when he picks it up it falls into pieces. [MAJOR] Mahito and Kiriko walk into the tower through a large entrance, then suddenly the door closes behind them with a booming noise. [MODERATE] Mahito looks beyond a gate where he sees a mass of inky-black, wobbly figures (I believe it was a graveyard); he is then suddenly swarmed by squawking pelicans(?). [MODERATE] Mahito wakes up underneath a table surrounded by tiny old lady dolls; when he gets up, he crawls forward some but still hits his head hard on the table. [MINOR] When Mahito is surrounded by parakeets that want to eat him, a flame suddenly erupts from the table (not too startling). [MODERATE] After Lady Himi and Mahito sneak past the parakeets and walk through a stoney tunnel, the stone suddenly gives off loud sparks.
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Are there ghosts?
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goblinbrodie
Some characters in another world are dead in our world. They're sort of ghosts.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Jadespade
The main character moves to a place with a river. He then enters another world that is mostly sea.
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Anonymous
There are many knives & blades of all types
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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viking
no vomit in the movie, but if you’re watching in theaters, beware of the trailer for “the boys in the boat.” part of the trailer shows someone vomiting off of a boat, he ducks out of screen and the audio is very minimal.
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Is someone eaten?
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goblinbrodie
Birds threaten to eat people several times but do not succeed.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Jadespade
Birds poop on people.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Jadespade
No scene directly in a hospital, but it is mentioned in the start that the main character's mother was in the hospital when she passed away.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Jadespade
Main character has nightmares about the fire that killed his mother.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Cadenmin04
PTSD
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goblinbrodie
Character hits himself in the head with a rock. It bleeds. The reason for his action seems not to be self-hatred though.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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goblinbrodie
Lots of instability after they enter the other world.
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Is there misophonia?
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Jadespade
As someone who doesn't really have misophonia, the sounds of characters eating were grating to me sometimes.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Anonymous
The boy has PTSD flashbacks from when his mother died in a fire. She dies in a fire in the first scene, and he has frequent nightmares & flash backs remembering the event
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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goblinbrodie
Crawling through a tunnel.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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jjstarA113
[MINOR] The heron sometimes appears outside the windows of the estate, which might be startling for some but is never an outright jumpscare. [MAJOR] Mahito stares down the steps at night, then suddenly fire engulfs the bottom floor in what turns out to be a nightmare. [MINOR] Mahito finds a stick in the bathroom which had earlier been broken; when he picks it up it falls into pieces. [MAJOR] Mahito and Kiriko walk into the tower through a large entrance, then suddenly the door closes behind them with a booming noise. [MODERATE] Mahito looks beyond a gate where he sees a mass of inky-black, wobbly figures (I believe it was a graveyard); he is then suddenly swarmed by squawking pelicans(?). [MODERATE] Mahito wakes up underneath a table surrounded by tiny old lady dolls; when he gets up, he crawls forward some but still hits his head hard on the table. [MINOR] When Mahito is surrounded by parakeets that want to eat him, a flame suddenly erupts from the table (not too startling). [MODERATE] After Lady Himi and Mahito sneak past the parakeets and walk through a stoney tunnel, the stone suddenly gives off loud sparks.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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goblinbrodie
A child partially sees (and hears) his father kissing his stepmother.
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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Jadespade
The childbirth happens off-screen between a time skip.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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goblinbrodie
A character is pregnant.
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Prejudice
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Race
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Relationships
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Sex
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hanasaseru
No, but the main character's father marries his deceased wife's younger sister (in response to the other comment, that's true in the real world as well)
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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greenseaturtle
No nukes, but there is a firebombing with many casualties.
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Is there blood/gore?
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StardustWhip
After Mahito's first day at school, he hits himself in the head with a rock and blood comes out of the wound. Later on, while Mahito is cutting a freshly-caught fish, blood spurts out, and then its guts spill out. A few scenes after the fish cutting, a dying pelican lands in front of Mahito, and it coughs up blood before passing away.
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