An intimate portrait of Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, filmed during the seven years it took him to make his Oscar-winning film The Boy and the Heron.

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron follows the year-long making process of the Oscar-winning animated film The Boy and the Heron, said to be the last film by legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. A moving documentary about creativity, obsession, grief and a creator whose drive to create keeps him going despite setbacks.