Hello, my name is Justin McLuhan. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're talking about, I'm going for it,

Hayo Miyazaki. Got it. Yes. And I will continue to pronounce it in multiple different ways as we go

through this podcast. Here's something you need to know about repertory movie theaters in Toronto and presumably

the rest of the world. If they need a little bit of business, if they're short on cash,

just program a week of Miyazaki movies. Watch those dollars rolling.

Just sold out shows across the board.

That's the one thing that movie theaters can be sure.

I bet that there's someone at Disney that their only job is to program Miyazaki movies.

And what's weird about Disney is that they don't let people like program their stuff.

So they must have like special rules for his films because they know they're going to make money.

Miyazaki, listen, all our listeners know who Miyazaki is, the most famous Japanese

animator of all time, probably the most famous single animation figure since Walt Disney.

100%. Yeah. I don't know anyone who says stuff like, I hate his movies.

It doesn't really exist because just watching them and sitting there and taking them in,

you have to admit that these are quality, intelligently made, and thoughtful motion pictures.

You may be right.

This guy may be as close as there is to like a consensus universally beloved choice.

Why is it, do you think, that people want to go see his movies in a movie theater?

Because most movies don't pack him in in repertory movie theaters.

And yet his do.

I think that we're the generation that just missed growing up with his films.

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