Spirited Away

Starring: Miyu Irino, Rumi Hragi Director: Hayao Miyazaki Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 29th March, 2004 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: Animated, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Spirited Away, or Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi is a movie by Japanese anime director & manga artist Hayao Miyazaki created at Studio Ghibli. The film won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at the 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony in 2003 & the best animation awards from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association & the New York Film Critics Circle. It shared First Prize at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival with Paul Greengrass Bloody Sunday. The film also made it to dozens of top ten lists by American critics in 2002. Spirited Away was released in Japan in July 2001, drawing an audience of around 23 million & revenues of 30 billion yen, to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history ; it is said that a sixth of the Japanese population has seen it. The film was subsequently released in the United States in September 20, 2002 & made slightly over 10 million dollars by September 2003. It was dubbed into English by Disney & was released in North America by its Buena Vista distributing arm. Posters Of Spirited Away

The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history, Hayao Miyazakis Spirited Away is a dazzling film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy worlds. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz & Lewis Carrolls Alice, Chihiro plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new home, the petulant adolescent & her parents find what they think is a deserted amusement park. Her parents stuff themselves until they turn into pigs, & Chihiro discovers theyre trapped in a resort for traditional Japanese gods & spirits. An oddly familiar boy named Haku instructs Chihiro to request a job from Yubaba, the greedy witch who rules the spa. As she works, Chihiros untapped qualities keep her from being corrupted by the greed that pervades Yubabas mini-empire. In a series of fantastic adventures, she purges a river god suffering from human pollution, rescues the mysterious No-Face, & befriends Yubabas kindly twin, Zeniba. The resolve, bravery & love Chihiro discovers within herself enable her to aid Haku & save her parents. The result is a moving & magical journey, told with consummate skill by one of the masters of contemporary animation.

Hayao Miyazaki Miyazaki Hayao is one of the most famous & respected creators of anime, or Japanese animated films. Miyazaki was born in Tokyo in 1941. He is the creator of many popular anime feature films, as well as some manga. Although largely unknown in the west outside of animation circles until his 2002 Animated Feature Oscar for Spirited Away, his films are almost without exception huge box-office & critical successes in Japan. Many of them explore the theme of humanitys relationship to nature. Miyazakis first film as a director was The Castle of Cagliostro, a light adventure film based on Lupin III, the second TV series of which he had directed earlier. a concern with ecological issues, a fascination with aircraft & the absence of a traditional villain. He adapted it from the manga of the same name, which he had created two years prior. He later co-founded, with Isao Takahata, the animation film company Studio Ghibli & has produced most of his subsequent work through it. His next three films at Ghibli were more traditional animated fare. Posters Of Spirited Away

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