The Nausicaäst

"From Up On Poppy Hill" analysis & discussion podcast.

Welcome to our 21st podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. An interesting and messy ride into the politics and cultural transformation of 60s Japan: From Up On Poppy Hill, directed by Goro Miyazaki. Join us as we explore the ongoing career of Hayao Miyazaki's son. Your hosts today are: Nyard, PlatonSkull and TheThunderer

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts

Youtube: https://youtu.be/cCieUbEUmW0

Sources:

Articles:

Ghibli Fandom Wiki Entry: https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/From_Up_on_Poppy_Hill - JP language interview with the original manga author: https://flying-fantasy-garden.blogspot.com/2016/08/blog-post_12.html - Reuters - Miyazaki father and son team up for "From Up on Poppy Hill" film: https://cn.reuters.com/article/entertainment-us-poppyhill-miyazaki-idINBRE92D11V20130315 - Film4 - Goro Miyazaki on From Up On Poppy Hill: https://medium.com/@Film4/goro-miyazaki-on-from-up-on-poppy-hill-e94acd1f88f1 - NYTimes - Grounding a Romance in Memories: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/movies/studio-ghiblis-from-up-on-poppy-hill.html - GIZMODO - Pessimistic Optimism: Goro Miyazaki on His Post-Nuclear Romance, From Up On Poppy Hill: https://gizmodo.com/pessimistic-optimism-goro-miyazaki-on-his-post-nuclear-453752467

Video:

Materials featured on the German Bluray version of the film, including a press conference and an interview with Goro Miyazaki - NHK Documentary, Part3: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3004593/ - STEVEM - Son of Miyazaki (A Gorō Miyazaki Retrospective): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srx3aBcodok

Paper:

Abel, Jessamyn R. - "Japan's Sporting Diplomacy: The 1964 Tokyo Olympiad" - https://www.jstor.org/stable/23240822 - Gluck, Carol - "The Past in the Present" appears in: Gordon, Andrew (Ed.) - "Postwar Japan as History" - Yang, Danqing - "Living Soldiers, Re-lived Memories? Japanese Veterans and Postwar Testimony of War Atrocities" appears in: Jaeger, S.M. and Mitter, Rana (Eds.) - "Reputured Histories - War, Memory, and the post-cold war in Asia" - Seraphim, Franziska - "War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005" - Igarashi, Yoshikuni - "Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970"

Joy, Gender and the Unconscious of Narrative - Nausicaäst #19 Ponyo

"Gake no Ue no Ponyo" analysis & discussion podcast.

Welcome to our 19th podcast on the works by Studio Ghibli. Today we are talking about the most colorful and joyful vision yet: Gake no Ue no Ponyo, directed by Hayao Miyazuaki. Join us as we dive into the ocean of the creative unconcious and find some interesting Gender takes from Miya-chan. Your hosts today are: Voice-Flower, Hipster_Cthulhu, PlatonSkull, Tassu and Nyard.

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast MP3 Download: https://nausicaast.libsyn.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Nyard Check out Tassu's art: https://twitter.com/tassuiro

Our sources: Books: "Miyazakiworld" by Susan Napier "Turning Point" by Hayao Miyazaki "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of 'The Little Mermaid'" by Lucy Fraser"Hayao Miyazaki's World Picture" by Dani Cavallaro

Web: Story Dive - Ponyo Revealed: The Real Mythology & Folklore explained! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3daCR2J230

Ghibli Fandom Wiki - Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Ponyo_on_the_Cliff_by_the_Sea

Papers: YOSHIDA Junko, "Are Miyazaki Hayao's Animations on the Waves of Media Globalization?". Kobe College Studies Vol. 60 No. 2

Ross, Deborah. "Miyazaki's Little Mermaid: A Goldfish Out of Water." Journal of Film and Video 66, no. 3 (2014): 18-30. Accessed May 10, 2021. doi:10.5406/jfilmvideo.66.3.0018.

Interviews: https://www.awn.com/animationworld/character-designer-katsuya-kondo-talks-ponyo https://www.tip-berlin.de/kino-stream/hayao-miyazaki-im-gesprach/ https://screenanarchy.com/2009/07/hayao-miyazaki-talks-ponyo.html https://collider.com/hayao-miyazaki-interview-ponyo/ https://www.fanbolt.com/12319/interview-hayao-miyazaki-from-ponyo/

Additional material: Bluray bonus features of the German Bluray release of Ponyo including a Making Of produced by News Zero and various translated interviews

Legacy, Patricide and Dramatization

"Tales from Earthsea" analysis & discussion podcast. Also known as "Gedo Senki" Welcome to our 17th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. Today we are talking about the first film directed by Hayao Miyazaki's very own son Goro. It is a story of the burden of legacy and the shortcomings of inexperience that manifests itself vividly in this honest film. On the cast today are: Nyard, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu and Voice-Flower. Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast MP3 Download: https://nausicaast.libsyn.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzn-j9r7oTa0qirJ2t3vdg Our sources: The brilliant Rob Malsen article we reference often: https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/stepping-out-of-the-shadow-goro-miyazakis-tales-from-earthsea/ Birght Lights article on "Anxiety of Influence": https://brightlightsfilm.com/daddy-issues-anxiety-goro-miyazakis-tales-earthsea-hayao/ LeGuin commenting on the film herself: https://web.archive.org/web/20060820151134/www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.html A letter sent to LeGuin by a japanese correspondent: https://web.archive.org/web/20100613183629/https://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiCorrespondents.html A review of the film with an interview with Goro: https://web.archive.org/web/20070312001921/http://www.ghibliworld.com/gedosenkiatviff2006.html/ A translation of Goro's blog: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/prologue.html Beyond Ghibli - Tales from Earthsea - The Power of a Name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcxccVUN94 STEVEM - Son of Miyazaki (A Goro Miyazaki Retrospective): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srx3aBcodok Zizek article about a Rammstein song that Nyard refers to: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515419-zizek-rammstein-covid-lockdown/

Heavy Hearts and Found Family

"Howl's Moving Castle" analysis & discussion podcast. Also known as "Hauru no Ugoku Shiro" Welcome to our 16th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. Today we're talking about one that is often less well regarded by critics but we're giving the movie an earnest shot! Of all the Miyazaki films this might be the most divisive, but it is also a fond memory of many childhoods. On the cast today are: Nyard, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu, Tassu and Voice-Flower.

Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast MP3 Download: https://nausicaast.libsyn.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzn-j9r7oTa0qirJ2t3vdg And here's a link to the Mr Btongue Video Hipster recommends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrTTgmB_3w

Our sources: Web: Ford - "A Body is a Heavy Thing" https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/03/13/a-body-is-a-heavy-thing/

Interview with Dianne Wynne Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbhWrjIImg

Newsweek Interview with Miyazaki http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/newsweek.html

Elyse Martin - "Howl-ever It Moves You: Diana Wynne Jones and Hayao Miyazaki Do the Same Work With Different Stories" https://www.tor.com/2020/05/05/howl-ever-it-moves-you-jones-and-miyazaki-do-the-same-work-with-different-stories/

Akimoto - "Howl’s Moving Castle in the War on Terror" https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/iss2/akimoto.html

Dobay - "Howl’s Moving Castle Explained: Character Analysis and Main Themes" https://www.followthemoonrabbit.com/howls-moving-castle-people-dont-want-to-be-adults/

Paper: Gossin - "Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Miyazaki Hayao's Ecophilosophy" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/mech.10.2015.0209

Levi - "Review: Howl's Moving Castle" https://www.jstor.org/stable/41510916

Miyazaki - "Turning Point" Print - Viz Media

Napier - "Miyazakiworld" Print - Yale University Press

Rudd - "Building Castles in the Air [...]" https://www.jstor.org/stable/24352209

Victims History, Symbolic Uniforms and Falling Fire

Welcome to our fourth podcast. This time we analyze "Grave of the Fireflies", directed by Isao Takahata. Your hosts this podcast are: TheThunderer, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu, Miki and Nyard.

Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast

Online Sources:

Roger Ebert on Grave of the fireflies: https://youtu.be/_9WEyuMq0Yk

Roger Eberts Grave of the Fireflies review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-grave-of-the-fireflies-1988

Big Joels Grave of the Fireflies video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qK2Nzsvik0

"Grave of the Fireflies: The haunting relevance of Studio Ghibli's darkest film" by Heather Chen

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43695803

"Isao Takahata's stark world of reality" by Masami Ito https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/09/12/films/isao-takahatas-stark-world-reality/#.XXy6kGbgqi5

"The War on Self: Selective Memory and Historical Revisionism in Grave of the Fireflies" by Kelly J. Clark http://japanhistorylab.ca/content/war-self-selective-memory-and-historical-revisionism-grave-fireflies

"The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: ‘Grave of the Fireflies’" by Christopher Runyon

http://moviemezzanine.com/studio-ghibli-retrospective-grave-of-the-fireflies/

Animerica Interviews Isao Takahata and Akiyuki Nosaka http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2011/04/animerica-interviews-isao-takahata-and.html

"Bedknobs, Fireflies, and the Historical Context of the Post-War" by berkeleywarreps https://berkeleywarreps.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/bedknobs-fireflies-and-the-historical-context-of-the-post-war-2/

"An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity: Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro" by Phillip E. Wegner http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v5_2/wegner/

Other sources:

Alistair Swale (2017): "Memory and forgetting: examining the treatment of traumatic historical memory in Grave of the Fireflies and The Wind Rises", Japan Forum, DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2017.1321570

Thomas Lamarre (2009): "Preface: WAR/TIME", Mechademia: Second Arc, Vol. 4, War/Time (2009), pp. ix-xiv Published by: University of Minnesota Press. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41510925

Wendy Goldberg (2009): Transcending the Victim’s History: Takahata Isao’s Grave of the Fireflies, Mechademia, Volume 4, 2009, pp. 39-52 (Article), Published by University of Minnesota Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0030

Owain Jones (2012): "Black rain and fireflies: the otherness of childhood as a non-colonising adult ideology". Geography, Vol. 97, No. 3, Special issue on children's and young people's geographies (Autumn 2012), pp. 141-146. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24412191

Susan Napier - "From Akira to Howl's Moving Castle" (Book)