Talk:Shimako Sato

I bought the Wizard of Darkness trilogy on DVD a couple of days ago and I just watched a brief interview with her where she was being an adorable SF geek talking about liking Earthsea and Tolkien and growing up and becoming friends with her favourite shoujo manga writer and deciding to use the word "wizard" for a girl in her film of Eko Eko Azaraku because in Earthsea Le Guin had written that girls couldn't be wizards and what kinds of weapons the characters would use in the film to make it scary and storyboarding and so forth so I rushed over here to create this entry. I'll need to go back and rewatch the interview to catch the name of the mangaka. --Ide Cyan 07:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

The name is Moto Hagio! The subtitles for the interview translate Sato's words about her as "she is like God to me!" --Ide Cyan 08:33, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

More notes, now that I've rewatched the first movie and the second (which I can't remember whether I've seen before or not), Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard, which is a prequel to the first. I'm at the mercy of the subtitles, but I couldn't spot Misa referring to herself as or being called a wizard in the first (which Sato outlined but didn't write); she says she's a witch in that one, in a rather defeated scene deploring her powerlessness, but there is a scene in the prequel (which Sato wrote) where the female antagonist calls Misa a wizard. I bloody love how woman-centered these two DVDs are, though. Female director, female stars, strong central female characters (heroes and villains), kinda exploitative lesbian sex shoehorned into the first but also comeuppance of a pervert male teacher who'd been feeling up female students, and the boy with a crush on Misa in the second one not getting anywhere but being the first to die, and antagonism between women that has nothing to do with men, and the heroine's stoic resolve, and the protective men being the ones that end up in refrigerators, for a change. --Ide Cyan 10:57, 26 July 2008 (UTC)