Daniel from The Ghibli Blog has found a translated transcript of very insightful interview/discussion between director Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers) and Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki at welcome datacomp.
The main subjects of the discussion were (absent) director Hayao Miyazaki, Ponyo, The Sky Crawlers, jellyfishes, getting older and nothing less than the future of animation.
While the conversation already took place in August 2008 during Suzuki’s radio show [MP3 download] it’s still pretty newsworthy for us because Ponyo and Sky Crawlers are just arriving at our shores.
The discussion in the transcript reads a bit heated because of the sometimes pretty harsh words (especially towards Miyazaki) but if you listen to the radio show you can hear (even without knowing any Japanese) that this really was a friendly conversation between two old confreres. Another thing I noticed (and made my kinda ‘proud’) was the fact that Oshii criticizes the same thing about Ponyo like I did in my recent review:

Suzuki: Was the movie no good?
Oshii: No, it [Ponyo] was interesting to watch. What I mean by that is that Miya-san’s wild ideas are interesting to watch. The problem is that it wasn’t a real movie. It wasn’t put together like a proper movie. Not one bit.
(…)
Oshii: The movie didn’t explain anything about Fujimoto.

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