This film is in Japanese. We will be showing the English dubbed version at 1:15 and 4:00. The 6:45 show will be in Japanese with English subtitles. On Monday the 2:00 is English dubbed with OCAP and 6:00 is Japanese with English subtitles.

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy’s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.”