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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 | ... |
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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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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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("Always With Me")
Lyrics by Wakako Kaku
Original Music/Vocal Performance by Youmi Kimura
Tokuma Japan Communications
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Hayao Miyazaki: [pigs] Chihiro's parents are turned into pigs as a result of eating food intended for the gods. See more »Goofs
When Kamajii bangs the wheel to alert the Mushi-balls, a chopstick clearly falls down from the bowls. However, when he is cleaning off the dust only a minute later, there are two chopsticks again. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Chihiro: [reading a card] I'll miss you, Chihiro. Your best friend, Rumi.
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Crazy Credits
The credits have a series of still images from the film. The last image before the film fades is Chihiro's shoe in the river. See more »Soundtracks
"Itsumo Nando-demo"("Always With Me")
Lyrics by Wakako Kaku
Original Music/Vocal Performance by Youmi Kimura
Tokuma Japan Communications
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There is simply no denying that Miyazaki is the Godfather of Japanese Animation, time and time again delivering unto the public works of such incredible beauty, such stunning visual and sensory delights, such mastery of storytelling, that one can only be left speechless. Overwhelmed. Intoxicated with wonder. Such is the magic of Spirited Away.
Much like Miyazaki's previous feature Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away is an epic fairytale fantasy that deserves no better medium than the stunning animation work of Studio Ghibli. This multiple award-winning masterpiece has grown to become the largest grossing film in Japanese history, and rightly so. From the moment our child heroine Chihiro enters the bath houses we are literally bombarded with an overwhelming sense of detail and rich, lavish colours rarely - if ever - seen in western animation. Scenes such as Chihiro running through the field of flowers, the marvellous landscapes seen from the train, Haku and Chihiro soaring the skies above, and Chihiro running across the pipe to climb the walls of the bath house are nothing short of breathtaking, and undoubtably some of the most lavish animation ever to hit the screen.
The world of Spirited Away is simply bustling with life; unique, quirky, instantly lovable creatures jostling about their daily activities and tasks in the bath houses, dancing across the screen like leaves caught in a playful summer breeze. The inventiveness of Miyazaki's character designs, much like in Mononoke, is wonderful to behold, in fact not since classic tales like Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland and The Neverending Story have we been able to fall hopelessly in love with such original, quirky, magical, even fantastical characters. The viewer is plunged headfirst into another world for nearly two hours and one cannot help but be completely and utterly captivated.
The music and original score is stunningly beautiful, the original Japanese language track of such high quality that one wonders why someone could insult the work by producing a dub track at all. With a plot differing in its complexity on so many levels, from the basic storyline, to the omnipresent universal themes, to the riddling of Japanese history and fable throughout, children and adults alike will be mesmerised from start to end. A magical, awe-inspiring, tearful, laughter-filled, heartfelt journey through a land of sweeping fantasy and dreams.
Prepare to be Spirited Away........................