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Spirited Away
(2001)
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Cast
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Chihiro
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| Suzanne Pleshette | ... | ||
| Susan Egan | ... |
Lin
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Kamajii
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Chihiro's Mother
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| Michael Chiklis | ... |
Chihiro's Father
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| John Ratzenberger | ... |
Assistant Manager
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Jack Angel | ... |
Additional Voices
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| Rodger Bumpass | ... |
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Jennifer Darling | ... |
Additional Voices
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| Paul Eiding | ... |
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Tatsuya Gashûin | ... |
Aogaeru, Assistant Manager
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Koba Hayashi | ... |
Kawa no Kami
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Rumi Hiiragi | ... | |
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside and Chihiro is missing her old house. Chihiro's father makes a wrong turn and drives through a lonely land road with dead end in a tunnel. Her parents decide to stop the car and explore the area. They cross the tunnel and find an abandoned cultural theme park on the other side with a ghost town. When her parents sees a restaurant with smelling food but no staff, they decide to eat to pay later; however Chihiro refuses to eat and decides to visit the place. She meets the boy Haku that tells her that her parents and she are in danger and they must leave the place. She runs to the restaurant and finds that her parents have turned into pigs. Further, the place is a bathhouse of spirits, monsters, gods and ghosts owned by the witch Yubaba. Now Chihiro counts on Haku to save her parents and return to their world. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Country:
JapanLanguage:
JapaneseRelease Date:
20 July 2001 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
Miyazaki's Spirited Away See more »Box Office
Budget:
JPY 1,900,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£152,504 (UK) (12 September 2003)Gross:
£542,530 (UK) (26 September 2003)Company Credits
Production Co:
Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV), DENTSU Music And Entertainment See more »
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Sound Mix:
DTS-ES | Dolby Digital EX | Dolby (English-language version)| Dolby Digital (English-language version)Color:
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1.85 : 1
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Chihiro: [reading a card] I'll miss you, Chihiro. Your best friend, Rumi.
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Trivia
To do the voice of Chihiro's mother talking while eating, actress Yasuko Sawaguchi actually spoke the dialog (in the original Japanese-language version) while eating a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Actress Lauren Holly did the same thing in the English version with an apple. See more »Goofs
When Yubaba flies back to the Aburaya with the bag, she clearly flies above the side of the deck. However, in the next shot, the bag hits the side of the deck. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Chihiro: [reading a card] I'll miss you, Chihiro. Your best friend, Rumi.
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Actually I dislike his or her comments badly. If you didn't get it watch it again. This is not a piece to just entertain, the creator has put his own feeling and I believe life experience and the fear always buried in children's mind into it. It is a comely tale that express the creator's thoughts in some way, whilst shining as a attractive animation piece with so many details that you might have ignore if you were careless. It is a rich story and I can see the efforts creators put into it in many spots and frames.
e.g. While Chihiro was walking towards the garden where Haku told her to meet him, she passed some stairs where she can see an island, there are some house on it, she stopped for it for a little while, that, represents her longing to human world, her own world, this kind of details can be ignored by many people but they don't mind putting it in to make the whole story richer, more truthful, full of power of humanity.
Apart from that, did you ever notice that some "camera language" was used very well to tell the story in a more entertaining and better pace.e.g. When Kamaji was telling Chihiro how Haku turned up to this world before just like what she did, the "camera" panned to where the little rat(changed from the fat baby)was showing off to soots by putting his foot into the spell melted print while Kamaji's introduction about Haku's background is also getting across to the audience. This is just one of the details that shows how much story telling skills and rhythm control of plots.
There're many other things like this, shouldn't be ignored if you want to make a nice comment, even though as an American viewer you might miss a lot of the story by lack of the culture background, but that's not the reason that you can comment it as anyway you want without even really READ the film.
I am a visual effects person and film maker but I can't tell where the jerking of the footage and the stopping of character's movement are in the film. could Gazzer please enlighten us? As also a fan of Pixar I hope I don't have bias on either American animations or Japanese ones, but as a Chinese who might have some resistance towards Japanese products for national esteem or historic reason, I still admires Ghibli Studio's work. "Spirited Away" is a masterpiece of elegant picture and touching story, if Gazzer-2 knows what that means.
"Ice Age" was a pretty cute one of Fox productions, but not good enough to compete with "Spirited Away" I'm afraid. And I'd laugh at the opinion that the story of "Ice Age" is much simpler hence Oscar committee didn't recognise it, actually I believe "Spirited Away" was beautifully hand-painted frame by frame while "Ice Age" had a giant crew in 3d animation and visual effects. I'm afraid Ice Age was the much more complicated one.