Animation

Family

Fantasy

千と千尋の神隠し

Studio Ghibli

Tokuma Shoten

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Mitsubishi

dentsu

Japan

日本語

Spirited Away

Rumi Hiiragi

Miyu Irino

Mari Natsuki

Takashi Naito

Yasuko Sawaguchi

Tatsuya Gashûin

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Yumi Tamai

Yo Oizumi

Koba Hayashi

Tsunehiko Kamijô

Takehiko Ono

Bunta Sugawara

Shigeru Wakita

Shirou Saitou

Michiko Yamamoto

Keiko Tsukamoto

Akio Nakamura

Shinji Tokumaru

Kaori Yamagata

Tsuzuki Kayako

Masahiro Asano

Kazutaka Hayashida

Ikuko Yamamoto

Mina Meguro

Tetsurô Ishibashi

Katsutomo Shîbara

Shinobu Katabuchi

Noriko Kitou

Naoto Kaji

Yoshitaka Sukegawa

Aki Tachikawa

Noriko Yamaya

Katsuhisa Matsuo

Masayuki Kizu

Yôko Ôno

Sachie Azuma

Ken Yasuda

Shigeyuki Totsugi

Mayumi Saco

Sonoko Soeda

Akiko Tomihira

Minako Masuda

Orika Ono

Rina Yamada

Miwa Takachi

Hiromi Takeuchi

Makiko Oku

Hayao Miyazaki

Toshio Suzuki

Yasuyoshi Tokuma

Joe Hisaishi

Atsushi Okui

Takeshi Seyama

Yoji Takeshige

Kitaro Kosaka

Masashi Ando

Megumi Kagawa

Atsushi Tamura

Takeshi Inamura

Noboru Yoshida

Takaaki Yamashita

Atsuko Tanaka

Kenichi Yamada

Masaru Matsuse

Hideaki Yoshio

Eiji Yamamori

Katsutoshi Nakamura

Kazuyoshi Onoda

Makiko Suzuki

Mariko Matsuo

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Makiko Futaki

Akihiko Yamashita

Kaori Fujii

Nobuyuki Takeuchi

Shougo Furuya

Misuzu Kurata

Atsushi Yamagata

Shigeru Kimishima

Hiroomi Yamakawa

Yuichi Tanaka

Shizue Kaneko

Hideki Hamasu

Hisaki Furukawa

Kenichi Konishi

Masaru Ohshiro

Shinya Ohira

Shinji Hashimoto

Tamami Yamada

Yoshikazu Fukutome

Ryoko Ina

Keiko Itogawa

Osamu Masuyama

Kazuo Nagai

Hiromasa Ogura

Masahiro Kubota

Yoshihiro Osugi

Hisashi Mori

Masako Shinohara

Noboru Takano

Kuniyuki Ishii

Shojuro Yamauchi

Sayaka Hirahara

Naoya Tanaka

Naomi Kasugai

Masako Nagata

Tomoe Ishihara

Kikuyo Yano

Hisae Saito

Masanori Kikuchi

Kyoko Naganawa

Hiroaki Sasaki

Banjiro Uemura

Koji Hoshino

Seiichiro Ujiie

Hironori Aihara

Yutaka Narita

Takeyoshi Matsushita

Junji Yabuta

Mitsunori Kataama

Nozomu Takahashi

Atsushi Takahashi

Michiyo Yasuda

Mikio Mori

Masayuki Miyaji

Wataru Takahashi

Youmi Kimura

Michihiro Itou

Toru Noguchi

Shuji Inoue

Tsutomu Kawahigashi

Nizou Yamamoto

Dave Bossert

Kazuo Oga

Yoshiyuki Momose

Goro Miyazaki

ZeBlah

One of the great "masters" of the anime art. Somehow, if I would personally associate "Akira" to "self-destruction", then this anime would be the opposite :)

CinemaSerf

I quite liked the look of the new house that "Chihiro" and her parents were to move to, but she isn't so keen, and being ten had the weight of the world on her shoulders. En route to meet the removal men, her dad takes a wrong turning and soon, together with her mum, end up at the end of a tunnel. What would you do? Go in of course! Luckily it's quite a short walk before they find themselves in a small village that's full of shops all laid out for a banquet. Mum and dad tuck in but the young girl just wants to get going. Ignored, she explores a little as they gorge themselves and that's when she encounters the young "Haku" who suggests that she might like to leave. Snag is - her parents have quite literally now gone a bit porcine and she's going to have to rely on her new friend if she is to rescue them from an impending visit to the abattoir. A job is her first task, and for that she needs a contract with the wart-nosed witch "Yubaba" - and so off we go on a series of marvellously creative escapades discovering some coal spirits; that her friend has a secret identity; her boss an huge great baby and the entire place serves as a sort of bathhouse for the enigmatic "No Face" whose agenda isn't clear to anyone, though we do know he has a rapacious appetite and can make his own gold! The detail of the animation is astonishing and coupled with the mysticism of ancient Japanese folk lore works really well at creating a characterful and engaging story. I just love the lithe dragons of Oriental mythology as opposed to the scaly, stodgy, European ones. The concept of identity underpins much of the narrative here, with not just "Chihiro" but pretty much everyone else coming to terms with flaws and strengths in their personalities requiring a degree of human spirit, trust and forgiveness if ever anyone is to thrive and if ever she and her folks are to get to that new house on the hill. It's two hours really goes fly by and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Best Movies

Spirited Away

Cast & Crew

Videos

Cast

Rumi Hiiragi

Miyu Irino

Mari Natsuki

Takashi Naito

Yasuko Sawaguchi

Tatsuya Gashûin

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Yumi Tamai

Yo Oizumi

Koba Hayashi

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