Earwig and the Witch with Gorō Miyazaki | Picturehouse

We’re back with a mini interview special! Our next full episode of the podcast will return in early June. 

In this shorter episode, host Sam Clements talks to Studio Ghibli director Gorō Miyazaki about his latest film Earwig and the Witch. The film is in cinemas across their UK from Friday 28 May. 

Gorō Miyazaki speaks Japanese, so for this podcast you’ll hear him at the beginning of each answer and his translator will come to complete the answer in English.

Magic, mystery, a plucky heroine and her loyal cat: don’t let the shift to CGI fool you, this is a classic Studio Ghibli adventure through and through.

Based on the book by Diana Wynne Jones (author of Howl’s Moving Castle), Earwig is a young orphan growing up and causing mischief in the British countryside, all the while unaware of her mother’s magical past. When she’s adopted by a suspicious, selfish witch and her mysterious partner, Earwig must learn to understand the skills she’s inherited as she makes her way through a spooky world of spells and secrets.

Earwig and the Witch is in UK cinemas now.