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Spirited Away

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

917 reviews
Sales Rank: 432

Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: 786936213843
ISBN: 078884461X
UPC: 786936213843
EAN: 9780788844614
ASIN: B00005JLEU

Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: April 15, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description
Chihiro must save her parents after they are turned into pigs at a mysterious and abandoned amusement park inhabited by spirits.

Amazon.com
The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history (more than $234 million), Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi) is a dazzling film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy worlds. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Lewis Carroll's Alice, Chihiro (voice by Daveigh Chase--Lilo in Disney's Lilo & Stitch) plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new home, the petulant adolescent and her parents find what they think is a deserted amusement park. Her parents stuff themselves until they turn into pigs, and Chihiro discovers they're trapped in a resort for traditional Japanese gods and spirits. An oddly familiar boy named Haku (Jason Marsden) instructs Chihiro to request a job from Yubaba (Suzanne Pleshette), the greedy witch who rules the spa. As she works, Chihiro's untapped qualities keep her from being corrupted by the greed that pervades Yubaba's mini-empire. In a series of fantastic adventures, she purges a river god suffering from human pollution, rescues the mysterious No-Face, and befriends Yubaba's kindly twin, Zeniba (Pleshette again). The resolve, bravery, and love Chihiro discovers within herself enable her to aid Haku and save her parents. The result is a moving and magical journey, told with consummate skill by one of the masters of contemporary animation. MPAA Rated: PG ("Some scary moments") --Charles Solomon

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A Fantastic Film. August 31, 2010
Puzzle box (Kuwait)
This is the first Hayao Miyazaki film I have seen and I will certainly watch his others. The story plays on many elements successful with kids films, that transport you back to your own childhood and also allows the young audience to connect with the themes in the movie too. Now this is not the type of film that I would usually end up enjoying but I was completely wrong, this is anime at it's best. The story centers around Chihiro, a young girl who complains and mopes alot who is about to move into a new place and who feels insecure about the new environment she will be living in. These fears become a part of her encounter with a strange abandoned amusement park that she and her parents find when they reach a dead end in their car. At the park they find that their is a stall that is seemingly open, with displays of mouth watering food. There are no people about but Chihiros parents decide to gorge themselves on this food and pay later.

the story then continues Chihiro starts growing from sullen and spoiled to capable and confident, thanks to a strange, sometimes terrifying journey to another world. The other world is inhabited by gods and monsters, kind of like Alice in Wonderland with a Japanese mythology bent. With Chihiro's parents transformed into pigs, the frightened girl must acclimate herself to the rules of this new world--and its unusual power structure. Led by her mysterious new friend Haku, she must go to work in the local bathhouse for the witch Yubaba, signing away her name in exchange for a job. Now called Sen, she must figure out a way to rescue her parents before she forgets her identity and becomes trapped forever in the spirit world.

The story is very imaginative and the characters and animations are endlessly unique and strange, I was really blown away by this. This is just so much more creative than Hollywood. The characters are likeable and we become engrossed with Chihiros adventures inside this bathhouse, and the characters she comes into contact with as she tries to get her parents back as humans and whilst trying to get back to the human world. What I also loved in this film is that the animation gives it a real sense of cinematography, the drawing makes the film stand out in a way that American animations rarely do. Spirited Away is just the best animated film I've seen, it's also a great piece of art. I highly recommend this wonderful film.

5 out of 5 stars

Spirited Away August 25, 2010
Jill T. Ballard (Solvang)
Miyazaki is simply the best of the best in Anime. This item was shipped together with 5 other titles, they were well packaged and received very quickly from Amazon.com. Thank you.

5 out of 5 stars

One of his BEST! August 22, 2010
CK (Honolulu, HI USA)
I am a fan of most of Hiyao Miyazaki's films, my favorite being "Howl's Moving Castle". This one is right up there.

2 out of 5 stars

Bad product, but good service! August 4, 2010
Cameronology
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

I bought a copy of Spirited Away that was "Like New". Once I received the DVD and went to watch it, it skipped terribly and then just stopped playing. Thankfully though, it was easy to return and get the money back! The service was great.

1 out of 5 stars

Spirited Away August 2, 2010
G. Roehl
0 out of 11 found this review helpful

This movie was promised that it worked like new, even though it was used, and it skips 2-3 scenes in the middle of the movie.

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