This cool Website was profiled in the LA Times yesterday. It provides parents with ideas for videos to show their kids, and then culturally-interesting locations in the LA area to take the rugrats that are related in some way to the film.
This pairing is after my own heart: Hayao Miyazaki's anime film "SPIRITED AWAY," and our favorite West LA Japanese neighborhood, on Sawtelle.
UPDATE:
This pairing, on the other hand, seems bizarre: showing the kids another Miyazaki movie, "PRINCESS MONONOKE" and then taking them for a forest hike. The Website does suggest that Mononoke not be shown to kids younger than nine; but frankly I wouldn't show it to anyone younger than a teenager. Mononoke is a morally-complex fantasy story that is the most violent film Miyazaki has created; it features beheadings, dismemberment, pools of blood pouring from freshly-opened wounds, etc. Plus, there's the character Lady Eboshi, a noblewoman who has created a workforce for her iron foundry/armorer business by buying the contracts of prostitutes from brothels and using the women to run her forges; and by hiring lepers to fabricate rifles. Try explaining all that to your nine-year-old -- and then taking her for a forest hike.
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