However, during his speech, Miyazaki told the audience of a time he subjected Takahata to a very different smell.
Miyazaki and Takahata share the same personal physician, and nine years ago, the doctor called Miyazaki on the phone. “If you’re Isao Takahata’s friend, make him quit smoking,” the doctor gravely commanded.
Miyazaki also spoke of a time when he’d grown dissatisfied with the work he was doing at Toei Doga.
“He seemed like a kind, wise young man,” Miyazaki remembers, an impression keeping with the soft, relaxed tone of many of Takahata’s films.