Ep. 752 - The Boy and the Heron
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 114 minutes
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What we've been watching (~7:56)
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The Boy and the Heron
SPOILERS (~1:39:36)
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| 0:00.0 | And the film cast a podcast about movies. I'm David Chen and if you're a everyone and |
| 0:23.2 | David Chen and if you're a parakeet you can go to hell |
| 0:26.0 | joining me today is Devindra Hardawar |
| 0:28.6 | right there with you uh... this is why I never trust parakeets |
| 0:31.8 | damn and Jeff Kanada this is why I never trust parakeets. God damn! |
| 0:33.0 | And Jeff Canada. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Jeff Canada and this elaborate bird costume is merely a skin I'm wearing over my own. |
| 0:40.0 | I knew it. |
| 0:42.0 | Those are of course all vague and oblique references to the fact that today |
| 0:45.4 | on the podcast we're going to be discussing the boy and the heron the |
| 0:49.1 | latest and possibly final film by Hia Miyasaki which is out in theaters right now. |
| 0:54.0 | You can find more episodes of this podcast at the filmcast. |
| 0:56.0 | email us at slash filmcast at g email. |
| 0:58.0 | find us across many platforms at the filmcast pod. |
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| 1:03.7 | support this podcast at patreon.com slash film podcast. We got some what we were |
| 1:08.9 | watching for you today as well as our weekly plugs in our main review but first I just want to mention the fact that the boy in the |
| 1:15.7 | Heron this weekend was number one |
| 1:19.2 | Kick it ass at the United States box office |
| 1:29.0 | Which is remarkable. it is Nizaki's largest box office opening ever in the United States. I never thought this day would come, be honest so this is incredible to see |
| 1:33.7 | yeah I mean beating out Godzilla minus one yeah so it's like a battle of the subtitled |
| 1:40.2 | Japanese movies that's right yeah hunger Games on there too, but yeah, totally and a big part of the reason why it's so successful is because there's not very other not a lot of other movies. |
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