371: Grandpa and His Musical Friends

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Our survey of Miyazaki movies crosses over with Anime Club in this episode, where we discuss Studio Ghibli’s 1995 film “Whisper of the Heart.” Written by Miyazaki but directed by Yoshifumi KondÃ´, it’s a coming-of-age story with some resonance with “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” except there’s no magic and the cat doesn’t talk. But it’s still one magical cat.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 371, September 2017.
0:11.4	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.4	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.6	We're here for another edition of what I thought was going to be our survey of the films of Miyazaki.
0:23.3	But no, it's not.
0:24.7	It is a studio Ghibli movie that it was screenplay and storyboard by Miyazaki, but not directed by him.
0:34.4	So I guess maybe this is like the anime club annex. I don't know. John
0:39.0	Syracusa is out there. He's in charge of this stuff. How would you describe Whisper of the
0:45.2	heart from 1995 and where it fits in to the coursework of the incomparable? I just lumped in
0:51.5	with the rest of the Studio Jibli movies. And the particular distinctions of,
0:56.8	it's not a Miyazaki joint from top to bottom.
1:00.0	Like, I guess I've always gotten that by watching it,
1:02.7	like, as it feels different,
1:04.0	but it is no lesser, in my opinion.
1:06.5	So even though it's always been,
1:08.3	no, let's talk about the films of Miyazaki,
1:09.7	in my mind I've always been thinking of it as all the studio Djibbeth things,
1:12.5	most of which are him and a smaller amount from other people.
1:17.1	But he's,
1:17.5	you know,
1:17.6	even if he wasn't involved with this,
1:18.8	I would have put it on the list.
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