Interview With "Suzume" Director/Writer Makoto Shinkai

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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One of the most acclaimed animated films of 2023, "Suzume" is the latest film from master Japanese animator, filmmaker, author, and manga artist Makoto Shinkai. On one of his journeys to Los Angeles, he was kind enough to sit down with us and discuss his newest film, which tells the story of a 17-year-old girl who teams up with a stranger to prevent a series of disasters across Japan by sealing supernatural portals. Inspired by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the director of "Your Name" and "Weathering With You" has given us another excellent addition to his filmography, recently nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Please check out the film, which is available to stream on Crunchyroll and is up for your consideration for this year's Academy Awards in all eligible categories, including Best Animated Feature. Thank you for listening. Enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the director and writer for Suzume, Makoto Shinkai.
0:13.1	So I know everyone keeps asking you about focusing on natural disasters in this.
0:21.6	They've shown up in all your work to date, but this is the most explicitly about,
0:27.6	this film is about an earthquake.
0:29.6	So tell me a little bit about kind of really explicitly making the decision to focus on the 2011 earthquake here.
0:38.3	Okay, okay.
0:39.3	Okay, okay.
0:40.3	Okay, so, yeah, so, um,
0:43.3	so, um,
0:44.3	many of the American people,
0:46.3	maybe maybe,
0:47.3	maybe, maybe there are,
0:48.3	maybe in,
0:49.3	in,
0:50.3	in 2011, in,
0:51.3	in Japan, in,
0:52.3	that was,
0:53.3	that, that's, you know, that, I think, I Japan, in Japan, there was a very big I've been a lot of that I think that I've,
0:56.0	I think, I think,
0:58.0	I'm still maybe
1:00.0	that I'm going to
1:02.0	maybe I'm going to
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