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MPN: D29781D
UPC: 786936213843
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Spirited Away
Features :
Animated
Closed-captioned
Color
Dolby
DVD-Video
Widescreen
NTSC
Directors :
Hayao Miyazaki
| Release Date: |
15 April, 2003 |
| Manufacturer: |
Walt Disney Video |
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$29.99 |
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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
Customer Reviews
5 stars
Rating: 5
mezmerizing
everytime i put it in my dvd player i end up glued there until its over
my whole family enjoys it
A great anime, but it wasn't a masterpeice.
Rating: 4
There is a lot of fuss over this anime, you can trust the 600 people who gave it 5 stars, or you can trust me. This was great but it wasn't a SUPER OMG GREATEST MOVIE EVUR!!!!!!! kind of thing. I would recommends buying it, but don't expect a life changing experience.
Greatest Animated Film Ever!
Rating: 5
Yes, I am biased... I have been a Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli fan for a long time, but I will also say that I have worked in movie theaters and been a general movie addict for a long time as well... this is literally the only movie I will lend to and buy for people time and time again. It's simply magical.
The story is about a young girl, Chihiro, who is moving to a new town with her parents. Along the way to their new home, they get lost on a back road and explore an abandoned amusement park, only to find that (as many things are in Miyazaki's films) it is definitely not what it seems! Chihiro finds her parents enchanted by a witch who runs a bathhouse for spirits. With the help of Haku and other friends she has to make along the way, Chihiro must find a way to set herself and her parents free.
I lost track of how many copies of this I have purchased, but there's been atleast a dozen or so. If you like any of Miyazaki's other films, like Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, etc, you will definitely enjoy this one! It's the best of the bunch.
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