My Neighbors the Yamadas w/ Zoe Crombie (Studio Ghibli, Episode 17)

Isao Takahata’s penultimate feature My Neighbors the Yamadas features “rude” family comedy akin to his early career work, such as Chie the Brat. Tristan and Zoe Crombie, researcher and lecturer at Lancaster University, discuss how Studio Ghibli’s 1999 film, while sometimes seen as “just” a series of vignettes, is an incredibly refined commentary on modern life and family dysfunction (and indeed, is quite funny).