Watch the Boy and the Heron trailer Miyazaki doesn’t want you to see

Hayao Miyazaki’s mysterious final movie now has its first trailer, but you might not want to watch it. Teaser trailer for The BThe oHeron and y is just 72 seconds long, but if you’ve already waited this long for the movie without seeing anything maybe keep the wait going until the movie’s Dec. 8 release date?

If you need extra convincing not to watch the preview, Miyazaki himself has said that he doesn’t actually want people to see anything about the new movie before they’re sitting down to experience the whole thing themselves for the first time. In fact, he tried to make sure that there weren’t even teaser images released ahead of the movie’s Japanese premiere. Unfortunately for Miyazaki, that’s not really how international movie marketing works, so this trailer exists anyway. Will you watch the trailer?

The Boy and the Heron — released as What Do You Think? in Japan — is based on the Japanese children’s book What Do You Think?. That’s all we’ll give away, in case you’d like to honor Miyazaki’s wishes to the letter of the law.

Of course, we’d never judge anyone for being curious about a movie, especially one as momentous and exciting as a new Miyazaki release. So in case you actually do want to watch the trailer, or know what the movie is about, I have it on good authority that you shouldn’t worry and that the trailer doesn’t actually give too much away. You think I’ve seen it, right? We have the full Japanese review. For those saving themselves for release I will just say: it’s very positive.