I've tried really hard to like Miyazaki's work and the only film of his I could get into was "Ponyo" and I loved it. I find Japanese film and TV a very mixed bag and to me some of the masters are seriously overrated, but others move me to my core. Both the 1962 original and the 2011 remake of "Harakiri" are to me exceptional. The TV version of the manga "Erased" was matchless.
Re American TV of this era (I guess a flexible term), for me "The X-Files" is an achievement of such breathtaking scope and quality that nothing can compare and everything else seems so lesser.
But some Korean stuff comes close. Anything that really makes me cry--full marks. And a few Korean TV shows had me sitting here genteelly sobbing.
I've tried really hard to like Miyazaki's work and the only film of his I could get into was "Ponyo" and I loved it. I find Japanese film and TV a very mixed bag and to me some of the masters are seriously overrated, but others move me to my core. Both the 1962 original and the 2011 remake of "Harakiri" are to me exceptional. The TV version of the manga "Erased" was matchless.
Re American TV of this era (I guess a flexible term), for me "The X-Files" is an achievement of such breathtaking scope and quality that nothing can compare and everything else seems so lesser.
But some Korean stuff comes close. Anything that really makes me cry--full marks. And a few Korean TV shows had me sitting here genteelly sobbing.