What the corpus says about Spirited Away (2001)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Spirited Away (2001) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Spirited Away (2001) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:04:57 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Spirited Away · top-ten-list · David's top ten includes Spirited Away, Alien, Master and Commander, A Matter of Life and Death and Chungking Express, the uncovered outliers. · "Spirited away. Alien Master Commander. Matter of life and death."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:18:45 · Tim Simons (0.50)] The Boy and the Heron ↔ Spirited Away · more challenging than · Spirited Away is a classic linear movie; Boy and the Heron is harder to follow for kids. · "I don't think it made as much sense to them as spirited away, a classic linear movie."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:19:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Spirited Away ↔ Leonardo DiCaprio · introduced · DiCaprio introduced Scorsese to Spirited Away. · "he was like, but, you know, I did put you onto Miyazaki and specifically spirited away."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Hornblower (TV films) · programming · Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute. · "I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Truman Show · theme · Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes. · "They do both have sailing scenes."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterloo · theme · Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce. · "I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage. · "any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness. · "Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Moby-Dick · theme · Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies. · "how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Russell Boyd ↔ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · craft · Boyd, back with Weir after years apart, won the Oscar for this film's cinematography. · "And of course, Russell Boyd won the office."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Tim Simons · latest sketch, Blank Check · Fearless · Adores Bradley Whitford, Jeff Bridges, and unbridled positivity about moviegoing. Lover of old movies he has not seen yet. Can be contrarian ('movie MAGA mode') about near-consensus films and U2. Moved by performance and craft more than plot. · stances: Fearless is uniformly excellent, the first 30 and last 20 minutes transcendent; Jeff Bridges is peak, subtle and singular; the Fearless ending locks all puzzle pieces; nitpicks consensus classics
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Spirited Away (2001); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Spirited Away (2001) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.