Released as an exclusive Patreon post at the end of 2024, we’re now releasing this video podcast to publicly to commemorate ONE HUNDRED EPISODES! What a milestone. See you at 1000! 

The summer of 2024 saw Ben, Wilson, and Eli all together in the same place for the first time in six years! To mark the momentous reunion, we recorded a special video episode. It's time to go all the way back to the start by revisiting the work of the podcast's first director, Hirokazu Kore-eda, with 2008's Still Walking. Learn about our history together, hear our musings on the complications of family, and watch as Wilson gets six pounds of blueberries.

Links

Ben’s video essay on Still Walking

We’re still walking over at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com

Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro

00:05:50 Plot summary

00:07:25 General thoughts

00:14:10 Gifting interlude

00:24:53 Still Walking continued

00:27:43 Story and characters

00:37:01 Deliberate cinematography, use of space

00:42:36 Food

00:47:43 Non-judgmental filmmaking

00:50:23 Melodrama?

00:52:22 Yoshio scene

00:54:15 Atsushi

01:01:06 Blue Light Yokohama

01:04:35 Tokyo Sonata comparisons

01:06:10 Stealthy emotional narratives

01:12:02 What does Kore-eda not show us?

01:16:58 Best food, best outfit

01:19:57 Closing thoughts

01:25:29 Longest outro ever