Review of The Boy and the Heron

Regrettably, this work also couldn't meet the expectation of his enthusiastic fans once again. Aside from his earlier works, he has been continuously facing difficulties in expressing and conveying his own inner images and feelings precisely as he felt in Hayao's own brain to his loved spectators, maybe it started from "Spirited away". It's easy to say that it's simply because of aging though. But he's already lost creativity to attract his spectators no reason to the level of ecstasy. His long term right arm, producer Toshio Suzuki decided to eliminate any advertising campaign on this movie, seemingly because he figured anticipated box office stagnation prior to the release. Learning from aged Hayao, we would know the style to suit to his old days should be "aged but matured" one. We can't feel such a touch that we could taste from good old directors.