Miyazaki and Kurosawa Fireside Chat

Miyazaki and Kurosawa Fireside Chat (映画に恋して愛して生きて黒澤明と宮崎駿, Eiga ni Koishite Aishite Ikite, Kurosawa Akira to Miyazaki Hayao) is a documentary first broadcast on Nippon Television in 1993. The TV special was expanded into a book entitled, "Nani ga Eiga ka" or "What is a movie?" centering around the making of "Seven Samurai" (1954) and" Madadayo" (1993)."

This documentary, initially broadcast on TV, accompanies the home video release of the compilation films for the "Sherlock Hound" series.

Overview
The 1993 TV special is about a conversation between Hayao Miyazaki and Akira Kurosawa about cinema. Miyazaki had great respect for Kurosawa, as evidenced by him appearing fairly nervous during the meeting. During the interview, Kurosawa recommended that Miyazaki create a jidai-geki (a film about medieval Japanese history) and the latter took the opportunity to talk about his upcoming project called "Princess Mononoke".

In that same year, their conversation was published as a book entitled "Nani ga Eiga ka"? (What is a movie?) which includes an additional interview with Miyazaki.