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.”
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(Source: Letterboxd)

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Shinobu Otake is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Railroad Man, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress (The Incident) and Best Supporting Actress (Seishoku no ishibumi). She also won the award for best actress at the 12th Hochi Film Award for Eien no 1/2. At the 25th Moscow International Film Festival she won the award for Best Actress for her role in Owl. She has received a total of 12 nominations.

She was the favoured lead actress of director Kaneto Shindo after his previous lead actress, Nobuko Otowa, died in 1994, and featured in several of his films from A Last Note in 1995 to Postcard in 2011.

Non-anime roles:
~!Gon in "Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos" (VG)  Kojiro in "Brave Fencer Musashi" (VG)  Laharl in "Disgaea: Hour of Darkness" (VG)  Lola in "Grim Fandango" (VG)  Mikey in "Radiata Stories" (VG)  Pat in "Galerians:Ash" (VG)  Red in "Fraggle Rock"  Ryoko Leingod in "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time" (VG)  Silva in "Suikoden V" (VG)  Spike in "Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed" (VG)  Voice of Rita Repulsa in "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" (TV)  Zeldalia in "Atelier Iris:Eternal Mana" (VG)!~

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Marlene Costa Fernandes Saddy is a Brazilian actress, voice actress, and dubbing director. She is the mother of voice actresses [Fernanda Baronne](https://anilist.co/staff/112813/) and [Flávia Saddy](https://anilist.co/staff/112815/).

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Sigourney Weaver, Jacki Weaver, Faye Dunaway, Dianne Wiest, Jane Fonda, Jean Smart, Rita Moreno, Gabriela Rivero, Luz María Aguilar, Marcela Benjumea and Pilar Pellicer (Most of the productions)
- Sheila, the Thief (1st voice; 1st-2nd season; Dungeons & Dragons)
- Katherine "Kay" Adams (The Godfather trilogy)
- Queen Elizabeth II (2nd dub; The Crown)
- Bel'Veth, The Empress of the Void (League of Legends)
- Selina Kyle / Catwoman (Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder [2nd dub], Batman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures and Batman: The Brave and the Bold)
- Althea Winifred Sanderson / Blind Al (Deadpool trilogy)
- Catra (She-Ra: Princess of Power)
- Grox (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
- Galina "Red" Reznikov (Orange Is the New Black)
- Principal Griffin (1st voice - 1st-2nd season; Winx Club)
- Zira (Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Escape from the Planet of the Apes)
- Lisa (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
- Queen Usurna (2nd voice; Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia)
- Nomura (Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans)
- Marianne Lenoir (Miraculous: Les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir)
- May Parker (Marvel's Spider-Man 2017)
- Donna January (The Boys)
- Teacher Helena (Carrusel and Carrusel de las Américas)
- Kameyo (Kubo and the Two Strings)
- Ah Puch (Maya and the 3 Warriors)
- Lily (Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends)
- Mrs. Copperbottom (Robots)
!~

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