COME WITH US AS WE TUMBLE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, PASS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, ENTER THE WARDROBE, AND RIDE A TORNADO TO OZ!
It’s time to cover one of my favorite subgenres: movies where people cross over into another world where they learn a lesson and meet a bunch of walking metaphors. This episode’s guest host, Betsy, calls these Portal Fantasies and notes similarities to the popular anime/manga Isekai genre, but I’m afraid that those titles will mess up my search results, so I’m calling them [Blank] in Wonderland Movies.
We’re trying to cover some of the rarer examples of the genre – specifically Tsui Hark’s Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983), Vladimir Grammatikov’s Mio, Min Mio (aka: Mio in the Land of Faraway, 1987), Hiroyuki Morita’s The Cat Returns (2002), and Gokhan Yorgancigil’s On the Count of Zero (Turkish: Sıfır Dediğimde, 2007) – but we can’t help but also talk about popular classics, like Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Pan’s Labyrinth, Spirited Away, and others.
00:00 – Intro and all the important, great movies we aren’t going to cover
12:29 – Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
34:04 – Mio, Min Mio
1:07:22 – The Cat Returns
1:29:23 – On the Count of Zero
1:47:55 – Outro and other recommendations
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