I assume that most of the people who read my blog are aware of the incredible work of Hayao Miyazaki. I feel like this is a fairly safe assumption with me and my parents making up three of my total readership of four (yeah, I read my own blog).
I don't need to sell him to you. That time has passed. The guy is crazy internationally revered for his contributions to his medium, and popular culture as a whole. You don't need me to tell you that. Maybe you do. Maybe you aren't really aware of the defining influence that this guy has had not only on animation in his home country, AND the international relationship with that animated output of that country of his home, BUT ALSO mostly responsible for a very different sort of broad range appeal than you would find in, say, a Disney Pixar film.
Maybe you need me to tell you those things.
Maybe you also need to be told that starting tomorrow night (Saturday, 2014-12-06) SBS 2 are running a Hayao Miyazaki Family Movie Season.
| My Neighbour Totoro | 1988 | Saturday, 2014-12-06, 5:55pm | |
| Kiki's Delivery Service | 1989 | Saturday, 2014-12-13, 6pm | |
| Spirited Away | 2001 | Saturday, 2014-12-20, 6pm | |
| Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Saturday, 2014-12-27, 6pm | |
| Ponyo | 2008 | Saturday, 2015-01-03, 6pm |
It's a good selection of his films. I mean, they aren't necessarily the five films that I would choose if I was trying to force my love of his films onto my friends and family, but they've included films from the late eighties and the the entire naughties, which are the two periods in which his popularity went through it's greatest growth.
In case you didn't notice, they're on Saturday nights for the next 5 weeks.
I'm not sure if they're going to end up on catchup, so if you don't have access to them in any other form, it might be worth your time to tune in.
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