Comments on: The shorts review #1: Mizu no Kotoba and She & Her Cat http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/04/15/the-shorts-review-1-mizu-no-kotoba-and-she-her-cat/ Get decultured Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Martin http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/04/15/the-shorts-review-1-mizu-no-kotoba-and-she-her-cat/#comment-41616 Martin Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:24:48 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=449#comment-41616 @Hige: cheers for the Twitch link ('Celebrating Mullets'? WTF?!) I need to track down some Studio 4 degrees C stuff too (Comedy etc) but their work is pretty hard to find. Incidentally I watched Shinkai's latest short, Neko no Yuukai, this week too. It's very different from his earlier movies, short or otherwise - playful, funny and quite clearly a tribute to the Ghibli movies he must have grown up with. The scene where Chobi goes like a Nausicaa God Warrior is utterly priceless! @Hige: cheers for the Twitch link (’Celebrating Mullets’? WTF?!) I need to track down some Studio 4 degrees C stuff too (Comedy etc) but their work is pretty hard to find.

Incidentally I watched Shinkai’s latest short, Neko no Yuukai, this week too. It’s very different from his earlier movies, short or otherwise - playful, funny and quite clearly a tribute to the Ghibli movies he must have grown up with. The scene where Chobi goes like a Nausicaa God Warrior is utterly priceless!

]]> By: Hige http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/04/15/the-shorts-review-1-mizu-no-kotoba-and-she-her-cat/#comment-41609 Hige Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:33:47 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=449#comment-41609 Mizu no Kotoba is definitely interesting from a chronological stand-point, you're right, but definitely feels like an early work. I'll have to dig around and see if there's a non-dub version. The English voice actors are particularly amateurish in this one... which probably isn't a coincidence, I'd wager. But yeah, both are great short bursts of what makes their directors so appealing. Like Cathy She and Her Cat is still my favourite Shinkai film. The 'Her Loneliness' scene hits me more acutely than anything else he's made. There's something deeply affecting about Japanese saying 'Please save me'. I can't say why exactly, but it shakes me up. Twitch have She and Her Cat on their video player if you didn't already know: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1272266570/bclid1315740289/bctid1320144308 Mizu no Kotoba is definitely interesting from a chronological stand-point, you’re right, but definitely feels like an early work. I’ll have to dig around and see if there’s a non-dub version. The English voice actors are particularly amateurish in this one… which probably isn’t a coincidence, I’d wager.

But yeah, both are great short bursts of what makes their directors so appealing. Like Cathy She and Her Cat is still my favourite Shinkai film. The ‘Her Loneliness’ scene hits me more acutely than anything else he’s made. There’s something deeply affecting about Japanese saying ‘Please save me’. I can’t say why exactly, but it shakes me up.

Twitch have She and Her Cat on their video player if you didn’t already know: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1272266570/bclid1315740289/bctid1320144308

]]> By: Martin http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/04/15/the-shorts-review-1-mizu-no-kotoba-and-she-her-cat/#comment-41586 Martin Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:40:54 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=449#comment-41586 @Cathy: She and Her Cat is an upbeat film in my view as well - there's something really soothing about the idea of the woman and her pet living together contentedly and, as you pointed out, learning to love and accept the world around them. @TheBigN: that cafe looks really, fun I must admit. 5cm is probably my fave Shinkai work but SahC says so much with so little time that I had to voice my views on it! @Cathy: She and Her Cat is an upbeat film in my view as well - there’s something really soothing about the idea of the woman and her pet living together contentedly and, as you pointed out, learning to love and accept the world around them.

@TheBigN: that cafe looks really, fun I must admit. 5cm is probably my fave Shinkai work but SahC says so much with so little time that I had to voice my views on it!

]]> By: TheBigN http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/04/15/the-shorts-review-1-mizu-no-kotoba-and-she-her-cat/#comment-41562 TheBigN Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:06:53 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=449#comment-41562 Both works I highly recommend, and shows that you don't need a lot of time to make an impact. I'd definitely want to be a patron of the cafe in Mizu no Kotoba, and I find She & Her Cat and 5cm to be better than the other works that Shinkai has done. :P Both works I highly recommend, and shows that you don’t need a lot of time to make an impact.

I’d definitely want to be a patron of the cafe in Mizu no Kotoba, and I find She & Her Cat and 5cm to be better than the other works that Shinkai has done. :P

]]> By: Cathy http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/04/15/the-shorts-review-1-mizu-no-kotoba-and-she-her-cat/#comment-41557 Cathy Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:58:43 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=449#comment-41557 She and Her Cat is probably my favorite Makoto Shinkai film of all time. It's odd, because I watch it whenever I'm depressed, and you'd think it'd make me more depressed, but it's so much about loving and accepting the world for that love that it makes me happy. :) She and Her Cat is probably my favorite Makoto Shinkai film of all time. It’s odd, because I watch it whenever I’m depressed, and you’d think it’d make me more depressed, but it’s so much about loving and accepting the world for that love that it makes me happy. :)

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