But, even if you are over 14, better now than never!
Critics just love it, as the audience, and this animated movie is considered one of the best films of the 2000s decade and one of the greatest animated films of all time winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival (tied with Bloody Sunday) and is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. The film even overtook Titanic (at the time the top grossing film worldwide) in the Japanese box office to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history with a ¥30.4 billion total.
Just to say that this is the most successful film in Japanese history, grossing about $270-350 million worldwide. Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside, much to Chihiros dismay. I haven't seen that version, I enjoyed the original with subtitles. Hewitt wrote the English-language dialogue, which they wrote to match the characters' original Japanese-language lip movements. Screenwriters Cindy Davis Hewitt and Donald H. I wish I could see the rest of the story! English version of the film was supervised by the Pixar director John Lasseter, a fan of Miyazaki. Production of the animated film began in year 2000 with a budget of US$19 million, but during production, Miyazaki realized the film would be over three hours long and decided to cut out several parts of the story. Miyazaki's script was based on associate producer Seiji Okuda's ten-year-old daughter, who came to visit his house each summer.
Stumbling on the food street in that world, her parents are transformed into pigs by the spell of the witch Yubaba (Natsuki), and 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 first page contains a list of cast and crew and a background and introduction. It tells the story of Chihiro Ogino (Hiiragi), a ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighbourhood, enters the spirit world. The following six-page study guide film packet is used to accompany the Hayao Miyazaki-directed 2001 animated coming of age film 'Spirited Away.' It can be used in an English, film studies, or media studies classroom. I will use one word to describe it - wonderful! Japanese animated fantasy, Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi?, "Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away") is a 2001 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and stars Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takeshi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tsunehiko Kamijo, Takehiko Ono and Bunta Sugawara.