A young boy, Mahito, is still grieving the death of his mother when his father brings him and his pregnant step-mother to the countryside.
The most recent Hayao Miyazaki movie is called How Do You Live, which is based on the 1934 novel by Yoshino Genzaburo. Its international title is The Boy and the Heron, and the English voice cast features big names like Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh. Like many other movies on this list, The Boy and the Heron is set in Japan during World War 2, with many plot elements that parallel Miyazaki's own life. A young boy, Mahito, is still grieving the death of his mother when his father brings him and his pregnant step-mother to the countryside. There, a grey heron lures Mahito into a mystical realm, where he must confront his grief and mortality itself. While The Boy and the Heron was intially reported on as Miyazaki's final film with Studio Ghibli, last we heard, the legendary director still had plenty of ideas left to work on.