Spirited Away is a dazzling, enchanting, and gorgeously drawn fairy tale that will leave viewers a little more curious and fascinated by the world around them.
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Spirited Away is a dazzling, enchanting, and gorgeously drawn fairy tale that will leave viewers a little more curious and fascinated by the world around them.
Awards
Ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino and her parents Akio and Yūko are traveling to their new home.
Haku first appears as a boy of about sixteen, but he is actually a lost river spirit that also can take the form of a white dragon.
Spirited Away tells the story of Chihiro "Sen" Ogino, a ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters the world of kami (spirits of Japanese Shinto folklore). After her parents are turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba, Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba's bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and return to the human world.
Aired: 20 July 2001
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Duration: 125 minutes
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation. Now 82 years old, Miyazaki has continued to produce films for the studio, with his most recent completed effort, The Boy and the Heron, proposed as his creative swan song before his retirement.
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