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Nermal
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That's a neat idea. And I do get hungry after watching that movie, especially for pork...
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shirokiryuu
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I think it's cool, but watching spirited away never heightened my understanding on ramen
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Amibite
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Should have shown Naruto
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the_silent_child
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The first time I watched this movie I was eating porkrinds... and fell asleep twice. It was a great movie though. One of my favorites.
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penguintruth
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Ironically, learning of this program makes me want to sit on my couch and watch Spirited Away.
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hamtaroboy2006
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somehow I think watcing Spirited Away isn't going to get you off the couch.
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Subaru19
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This may be a bit tangetial, but I've always found it a bit odd to use anime to illustrate anything about Japanese culture. Though Spirited Away does have a lot of interesting Japanese cultural things in it, you have to be able to sift through the fantasy to get at what's really real.
As to the actual post why not link the movie to the cultural experience of going to a bathouse or something
Also Silent_Child how did you stomach those porkrinds after watching that movie? I think that's probably the one thing I couldn't eat while watching Sprited Away. ^^ |
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Kouji
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How do you use Spirited Away to introduce kids to ramen? Was there even any ramen in this movie?
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RadicalHaruko
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I love Sawtelle! I'm not sure how much it has to do with Spirited Away, but it's a lot of fun anyway... they've got a bunch of great stores.
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silentjay
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Probably because bath-houses tend to have a somewhat different cultural context in North America. |
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daxomni
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It's true that anime often glosses over or even lies about what life is like in Japan, but using it as a springboard to a better understanding of Japanese culture isn't such a bad idea. I doubt that most Americans would ever consider something as Japanese as visiting a bath house and you don't need to take it that far to start the imagination of a child anyway. A movie, some new food, a couple well chosen books. That should be enough to get the interest up. Maybe some of the kids will eventually visit a bath house in Japan when they grow up. I mean how many public bath houses are in America anyway?
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Wolverine Princess
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I went to one when I went camping this summer. It was pretty gross; the tile smelled like urine, there were little kids screaming running around wildly, and someone left a used razor lying on the floor. I used to think it would be fun to go to a Japanese-style bath house, but that bad experience completely ruined it for me. I think I'm going to avoid bath houses like the plague for the rest of my life. 
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daxomni
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Heh. I was thinking of bath houses in the city, not something you'd find at summer camp. It's been so long since I was a summer camper myself but your comment sure brings back some very old memories. I thought the local Boy Scout camps weren't too bad and the ones I went to seemed to have decently kept facilities, but yeah the bathrooms weren't the greatest by any measure. Then I visited a co-ed camp in Iowa of all places. In addition to all the usual issues, these bathrooms also had patched-up holes and other anomalies that you didn't usually encounter in boys-only camps. Man, those Iowan girls were so much cuter than the girls down in here in South Texas. It took a bit of getting used to having my mildly Southern vocabulary made fun of (y'all being the most likely to garner a quick quip) but having lots of cute girls around was certainly worth a little mild ribbing. As for Japanese communal baths, they also run the gamut from clean to smelly. The main problem in my view is the temperature of the bath water. I happen to shower with very hot water myself, but to actually submerge yourself in water that hot is a very difference experience. I could only stand a few minutes and I came out looking like a lobster. I have no idea how the Japanese are able to stand such continuous heat over their whole body. |
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