Spirited Away
Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember.
Plot:A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
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Known For Hayao Miyazaki
Cast & Crew
Rumi Hiiragi
Miyu Irino
Mari Natsuki
Takashi Naitō
Yasuko Sawaguchi
Tatsuya Gashūin
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Yumi Tamai
Yo Oizumi
Koba Hayashi
Tsunehiko Kamijô
Takehiko Ono
Bunta Sugawara
Shigeru Wakita
Shirō Saitō
Writing
Hayao Miyazaki
Production
Toshio Suzuki
Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Nozomu Takahashi
Camera
Atsushi Okui
Editing
Takeshi Seyama
Crew
Masashi Ando
Fun Facts of Movie
- Despite having a rich plot with developed characters, Spirited Away (2001) was not made with a script. In fact, Miyazaki‘s films never had scripts. “I don’t have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film,” the filmmaker told Midnight Eye. “I usually don’t have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. The production starts very soon thereafter, while the storyboards are still developing.” Miyazaki does not know where the plot is going, and he lets it happen organically. “It’s not me who makes the film. The film makes itself and I have no choice but to follow”.
- Although Hayao Miyazaki had considered retiring after completing Princess Mononoke (1997), he was inspired to make this film after seeing a friend’s sullen 10-year-old daughter.
- When Chihiro arrives at Zeniba’s house, the jumping lamp with sound effect is a nod to the Pixar logo.
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This is the first film to earn US$200 million in grosses before opening in the U.S.
- 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.
- First anime film to be nominated for (and win) an Academy Award. It also has the longest runtime of any other film nominated or winning in that category (125 minutes).
- One of only two animated films ever to receive the Japan Academy Prize for picture of the year, the first being Princess Mononoke (1997), a product of the same crew.
- Hayao Miyazaki wrote, directed, and drew the storyboards for the movie; many directors have claimed that he essentially ‘writes his movie with drawings’, with films like Spirited Away (2001) being one man’s work and vision. The filmmaker is so influential and involved in the production, the New Yorker once called him “the auteur of anime.”
- This was the first film directed by Hayao Miyazaki in which a child character was actually voiced by a child.
- To this day, Spirited Away (2001) is the highest-rated traditionally animated feature film in the IMDb Top Rated Movies (Top 250).
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