Rnz: The Podcast Hour

The Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli is 33 years old this year, and from Spirited Away to Kiki's Delivery Service, it's responsible for some of the most popular animated films ever made. Film geek Michael Leader has seen all 20-odd of them, but his colleague Jake Cunningham has hardly seen any. So each week they watch one, share their thoughts about it and some interesting facts about how it was made, and then rank them all from best to worst. Here's part of their discussion about many people's favourite Ghibli, the 1988 film 'My Neighbour Totoro' with the two presenters joined by the film writer Beth Webb who recently wrote a piece to mark the film's 30th anniversary.