Miyazaki Holiday Film Series

Spend the holiday season with Museum Films as we present a retrospective of timeless masterworks by beloved Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. One of the most acclaimed living filmmakers, Miyazaki won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Spirited Away in 2003 and received two other nominations in the same category for “Howl’s Moving Castle” and “The Wind Rises.” After officially retiring from filmmaking for almost a decade, Miyazaki returned with a visually dazzling and deeply personal new film, “The Boy and The Heron,” which premiered to great acclaim at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2023. In anticipation of “The Boy and the Heron,” which will open in the Noble Theater on January 19, 2024, OKCMOA is proud to host a specially curated, eight-film retrospective that explores and celebrates Hayao Miyazaki’s singular body of work. Featuring much-loved classics like “My Neighbor Totoro,” “Princess Mononoke,” and “Spirited Away,” the series will screen on select Thursdays and Saturdays, beginning December 14 and running through January 13. Presented in their original Japanese-language versions with English subtitles, these international blockbusters will provide longtime fans and first-time viewers with a wonderful opportunity to experience the soaring airborne adventure and deep emotional terrain of Miyazaki’s singular cinematic universe.