Robert Pattinson voices the character of Heron in the English dub of The Boy And The Heron

A highly anticipated masterpiece by the Academy Award-winning director, Hayao Miyazaki. The Boy And The Heron follows the magical journey of teenager Mahito in a completely new world. The film, which won the Academy Award this year for the Best Animated Feature, will be released in English and the voice cast of this version will feature the voices of Christian Bale, Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Willem Dafoe, Gemma Chan, Mark Hamill, Karen Fukuhara and Luca Padovan.

Speaking of The Boy And The Heron, the film showcases the pain of a boy losing his mother and having complicated relationships with his family and classmates. Mahito gradually isolates himself, until he met a strange talking heron. Mahito and the heron enter a mysterious tower, where a magical world opened, bringing him to meet the people he loved... in a completely different identity. Apart from the Oscars, the film also won the Best Animated Film at the Golden Globes, Bafta Film Awards, New York Film Critics Circle Awards and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. This is director Hayao Miyazaki’s second Academy Award win. He had previously won an Oscar in 2001 for the Animated Film Spirited Away.

The Japanese anime auteur, Hayao Miyazaki is making his much awaited comeback with The Boy and The Heron after 2012. Talking about the English voice for Heron, Robert Pattinson, Miyazaki says, "I got to know that he was very excited about voicing the character of Heron and he had done a lot of prep work before going to the studio for the first meeting. He was already in the character and it shows in the end result. He has made the character his own."

The film released in cinemas across India on May 10 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It released in both Japanese with English Subtitles and English Dubbed Versions.

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