Spirited Away (volume 1 of 5)

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As for the depiction of the spirits, Miyazaki mentions how Japanese gods are quite modest in design. Because of humans' need for development, they destroyed a part of nature, causing Haku to lose his home and identity. In the United Kingdom, then-independent based film distributor Optimum Releasing acquired the rights to the movie from Wild Bunch in January 2003. million) Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し , Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, literally translated as "Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away"), is the 12th animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli, and premiered in theaters in Japan on July 20, 2001.

As a monstrous, out-of-control being, No-Face exhibits all the negative traits of those he had swallowed (most significantly, Aogaeru), becoming a brash, arrogant, loud, and selfish creature whose obsession with Chihiro proved troubling for everyone around it. This film may seem to be in imitation of a different world, but rather I wanted to think about a direct line with the tales of the past like Suzume no Oyado (The house of the hawk) or Nezumi no Goten (The Palace of Mice).Miyazaki had wanted to produce a new film for years, but his two previous proposals—one based on the Japanese book Kiri no Mukō no Fushigi na Machi ( 霧のむこうのふしぎな町) by Sachiko Kashiwaba, and another about a teenage heroine—were rejected. The only reason kids don't have to work today is because Japan experienced a period of high economic growth after the war. When production began, Miyazaki realized it would be more than three hours long if he made it according to his plot. Hustle Punch (1965) • Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968) • Animal Treasure Island (1971) • Lupin the Third Part I (1971) • Panda!

While exploring alone, Chihiro finds a bathhouse and meets a boy named Haku, who warns her to leave.Prior to the production of Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki had considered adapting the children's book, Kiri no Mukô no Fushigi na Machi (霧のむこうのふしぎな町), also known as Rin and the Chimney Painter or Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist, a 1975 novel by Sachiko Kashiwaba about a young student forced to repaint the chimney of a bathhouse left behind. With his assumed large amount of wealth, No-Face became a sensation with the workers who constantly begged for tips from him. En route to the bathhouse, Chihiro remembers a previously suggested meeting with Haku: some time ago, she had fallen into a river and was rescued by the river's spirit. Having topped Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Frozen now trails only Titanic, which opened in 1997 and grossed ¥26. In the penthouse, the stowaway shikigami shapeshifts into Yubaba's sister, Zeniba, who turns Yubaba's son, Boh, into a mouse.

The bathhouse, situated within an abandoned theme park, symbolizes Japan's distorted cultural identity. Since I had spent a lot of time talking about the train idea, it got to the point where those around me were asking if there wasn't some way we could include the other scenes.He subsequently disappeared and reappeared again on the bridge the morning after, watching a passing Chihiro with fascination. No-Face is a lonely spirit who begins to follow Chihiro Ogino after having developed an interest in her sincerity. In the special features of the Japanese DVD, Hayao Miyazaki explains how the song in fact inspired him to create Spirited Away.