This is an I-Heart podcast.

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

This is Rob Lamb, and today we are re-airing our episode from just last year.

This published 118, 2024.

It is our discussion of Miyazaki's 2001 fantasy classic, spirited away.

Enjoy.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Okay. of iHeart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House, we're going to be talking about the 2001

Japanese animated fantasy film Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

This week, I really wanted to talk about a weird movie with a good soul, and I can hardly

think of a better example.

This is not only one of my favorite films we've covered on Weird House Cinema.

This has got to be one of my favorite films of all time.

I just came back to it for the first time in many years this week.

And I knew I was going to love it on rewatch,

but I think I was not prepared still for just how lovely and exciting

and wonderful this movie is in basically every way. Absolutely. I mean,

this is one of the all-time greats. This is a film I've seen multiple times over the years. And

yesterday, like late in the afternoon, I asked my family, it's like, hey, I've got to watch

Spirit It Away again for work. Who Wants to Watch It with me? And they were both on board, my wife and my son. So we all just sit in and sit in the living room and watch the film all the way through again. And it's one of those films where every time you watch it, yeah, you make new discoveries. You find yourself reexamining the things you love about it and discovering new

things to love about it as well.

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