Spirited Away

MOVIE #1,786 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.05.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス Watched this one a while ago with my daughter. Chronologically, it was my first Miyazaki but it’s not super fresh in my mind right now. That isn’t to say it wasn’t memorable, though, because it certainly is. It’s a classic, no doubt. I liked it slightly more than Princess Mononoke, however the films are so vastly different they’re difficult to rank (this is a kids movie, while the latter is borderline at best). Yeah, it’s Spirited Away. You know it, you love it, what else is there to say.

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Spirited Away (Japanese: 千と千尋の神隠し, Hepburn: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, lit. 'Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away') is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Spirited Away tells the story of Chihiro "Sen" Ogino, a ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, inadvertently 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. The film was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Tohokushinsha Film, and Mitsubishi and distributed by Toho. It was released on July 22, 2001.