389: Tales from the Spirit Bathhouse

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Our survey of the films of director Hayao Miyazaki continues with 2001’s “Spirited Away.” It’s a real weird one, and sure to be turbocharged nightmare fuel for kids… but as adults, we have more capacity to appreciate a film as absolutely bugnuts as this. (Some downloads of this file contained an audio error at 32 minutes, with multiple overlapped voices. Re-download the file to get a corrected version, or just skip ahead about a minute.)

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0:00.0	The Incomparable
0:02.0	Number 389, January 2018.
0:11.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:14.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and in this episode, we are resuming our walk through the films of Haya Miyazaki and the, uh, the selection this time
0:24.1	made as always by John Syracusa, who joins me.
0:28.1	John, what movie did we watch this time?
0:30.2	I hope we all watch Spirited Away because that's what we're going to talk about.
0:34.5	Yeah.
0:35.6	Let's, let's check in Steve Lutz.
0:37.3	Did you watch Spirit It Away?
0:39.3	Yes. Okay, good. Moises Chouyan, did you watch Spirited Away?
0:43.7	Childhood ain't easy, man. Childhood ain't easy. I'm going to take that as a yes. Aline Sims,
0:49.2	did you watch Spirited Away? Yeah, but I held my breath the whole time. Oh, good. So no one could see you while you were watching the DVD.
0:56.0	I also watched Spirited Away, but that's not why I'm here.
0:59.0	I just want to work.
1:01.0	I just need a job.
1:02.0	I'm just here to work.
1:03.0	And weighed in a giant pool of filth.
1:06.0	Oh, man.
1:07.0	Okay, 2001, Spirited Away.
1:09.0	This is a weird movie. People love it. I'm hoping that in this episode,
1:15.1	some people can explain what the heck happened in this movie to me. John, do you have an opening
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