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Speaker 1: Great the Flick with Ben Oshe on ninety six am.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben, Good, Good morning, guys. I've got an

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Speaker 1: exciting one to talk to you about today. Are you

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Speaker 1: Miyazaki fans? But I think Notki tell us so mes

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Speaker 1: y Right, So he is a Japanese animation god ho.

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Speaker 1: So that's me we're talking. So we're talking like the

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Speaker 1: Walt Disney of Japanese animation. You could make the case,

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Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe you know, his resume is even better,

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Speaker 1: and all you have to look at is who he

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Speaker 1: has influenced over the years, right, So this is the

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Speaker 1: guy who has given us the Oscar winning Spirited Away

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one, Pono, my neighbor Toto.

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Speaker 1: These are all on Netflix these days, so they're pretty

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Speaker 1: widely streamed. But so John Lassiter, who is one of

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Speaker 1: the founding creative officers of Pixel, he came up with

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Speaker 1: the idea of toy story when he was visiting with

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Speaker 1: Miyazaki in Tokyo, oh okay the origin, so there'd be

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Speaker 1: there'd be no toy story without Miyazaki. And then you've

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Speaker 1: got people like Pete Doctor, who is a three time

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Speaker 1: Academy Award winner who won Oscars for Up, Inside Out

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Speaker 1: and Soul for some of Pixar's best movies. He is

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Speaker 1: hugely inspired by Miyazaki and when he became creative director

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Speaker 1: of Pixar, basically anytime they were making a Pixar movie

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Speaker 1: and they got stuck for inspiration, they would put on

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Speaker 1: a Miyazaki film in the office and that's where they

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Speaker 1: would get their ideas from. So it gives you, it

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Speaker 1: gives you kind of an idea, and even beyond animation,

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Speaker 1: like directors like James Cameron, Where's Anderson Gillom mal del

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Speaker 1: Toro have all taken inspiration from Miyazarki over the years.

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Speaker 1: And now the animator is in his early eighties and

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Speaker 1: about thirteen years ago, in about thirteen years ago, he

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Speaker 1: pulled the pin on his career. He's like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm done. I've made a bunch of movies. I'm retiring,

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Speaker 1: and he kind of, you know, went off the radar

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Speaker 1: for a little while, and then a couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago decided to get back into it and he's doing

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Speaker 1: this last film, The Boy and the heron which everybody

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Speaker 1: who's into Japanese animation and animation in general, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of filmmakers been super excited about, and it's finally

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Speaker 1: getting into release here in Australia this week, And like

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Speaker 1: films like Spirited Away and How's Moving Castle, he tells

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Speaker 1: this story of a young character in Japan sort of

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Speaker 1: around about the time of World War Two, which is

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Speaker 1: a period that Miyazaki has always been very fascinated with.

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Speaker 1: It's is kind of his own childhood yep. And this

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Speaker 1: boy is forced to flee Tokyo when his mom dies

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Speaker 1: in a hospital fire because of the bombings in World

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Speaker 1: War two, goes to regional Japan with his dad and

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Speaker 1: his dad's new wife, and when he's there in this

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Speaker 1: strange surroundings, he gets involved in this kind of mysterious

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Speaker 1: adventure involving a giant heron and this cast of wild characters.

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Speaker 1: Miyazaki films are always kind of known for this incredible

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Speaker 1: imagination that he brings to it, sort of sort of supernatural,

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Speaker 1: but they touch on something sort of very human and universal,

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Speaker 1: and they end up being like incredibly beautiful films that

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Speaker 1: make statements about family, sort of learning about yourself as

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Speaker 1: well as the environment and you know, the evils of war.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of big themes going on in

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Speaker 1: all of his films, and like, if you're a purist,

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Speaker 1: you would probably try to see these films in you know,

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Speaker 1: the original Japanese language with the subtitles. But Miyazaki always

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Speaker 1: knew that the key to success overseas was having sort

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Speaker 1: of English language dubs of his films, and so they've

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Speaker 1: always put so much effort in incredible voice casts, and

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Speaker 1: with the Boy and the Heron, like I would say,

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Speaker 1: this is probably the best voice cast that they've ever

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Speaker 1: put together. You just listen to some of the people

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Speaker 1: involved here. So you've got Christian Bale who plays this

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Speaker 1: young boy's dad. You've got Florence Pugh who and plays

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Speaker 1: a sort of a plucky female saler. You've got Willem

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Speaker 1: Dafoe as a Pelican, Dave Battista as the King of

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Speaker 1: the parakeets and as the voice of the Heron, sort

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Speaker 1: of one of the major characters. You've got Robert Pattinson,

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Speaker 1: so you've got just these Mark hamill is in it

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Speaker 1: as well, he's a great grand uncle. So it's really

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Speaker 1: a who's who of all of these big name actors

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood who have just been more than happy to

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Speaker 1: kind of add their voices to this movie because Mirzaki

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Speaker 1: is just such a god in the cinematic industry. And

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Speaker 1: you know, for anybody who's watched any of his films,

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Speaker 1: this is you know, this is a masterpiece. There's no

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Speaker 1: other way to describe. It is an absolute Gems has

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Speaker 1: let you down when a comeback. He's so highly impressed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, oh yeah yeah, Like his films are

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Speaker 1: like nothing else. And and it's in a way it

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Speaker 1: kind of gets a bit Christopher Nolan esque in some

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Speaker 1: of the twists towards the end. It feels kind of

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Speaker 1: like more of a you know, sort of a Hollywood

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Speaker 1: twist kind of vibe than some of his previous films.

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Speaker 1: But it's also you know, it's highly conceptual. If you've

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Speaker 1: never seen one of his films, you'd walk into it

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Speaker 1: and go like, or did they have a magic mushroom

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Speaker 1: on the way in or something? What the heck is

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Speaker 1: going on? But they really are. There's such a special

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Speaker 1: special movies. And if this is the last one that

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Speaker 1: he ever makes, he's gone out on a high note. Well, gosh,

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Speaker 1: what are you giving it? Well, I'm giving this one

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Speaker 1: four and a half month. We know, when you're excited

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Speaker 1: about and I don't think Lisha and I are alone

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Speaker 1: who would have answered the question in that way when

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Speaker 1: you asked about me is actly we both went more so.

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Speaker 1: I was like an education for a lot of people

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Speaker 1: right there, and here's your passion. Yeah. Absolutely absolutely recommend it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Ben, Thanks Benny, see you next week. Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys,