When her parents are turned into pigs and she is put to work in a magical bathhouse, Chihiro must use her wits to survive in this strange new place, find a way to free her parents, and return to the normal world. Thrupkaew, Noy. "Animation Sensation: Why Japan's Magical Spirited Away Plays Well Anywhere." American Prospect 13.19: 32–33. Academic OneFile. Gale. 11 February 2009. McGee, Oona (10 November 2021). "First look at Studio Ghibli's new Spirited Away live-action stage play". SoraNews24.com . Retrieved 7 January 2022. Haku offers to retrieve Boh if Yubaba releases Sen and her parents. Yubaba agrees, but only if Sen can pass a final test. Sen meets with Zeniba, who makes her a magic hairband. Haku appears in dragon form, and Sen, Boh, and Haku leave for the bathhouse, leaving No-Face with Zeniba. Mid-flight, Sen discovers Haku's identity as the spirit of the Kohaku River ( ニギハヤミ コハクヌシ, Nigihayami Kohakunushi ). When they arrive, Sen passes Yubaba's test to identify her parents, and she is allowed to leave. Haku vows to see her again, but she leaves the city with her parents, who do not remember anything after the restaurant. After returning to their own world, the family find their car covered with leaves and dust, as the forest around it has become immensely overgrown. They then exit the forest and continue their journey to their new home.

BFI Statistical Yearbook 2012" (PDF). British Film Institute (BFI). 2012. p.125 . Retrieved 21 April 2022. The closing song, "Always With Me" ( いつも何度でも, "Itsumo Nando Demo ", lit. 'Always, No Matter How Many Times') was written and performed by Youmi Kimura, a composer and lyre-player from Osaka. [29] The lyrics were written by Kimura's friend Wakako Kaku. The song was intended to be used for Rin the Chimney Painter ( 煙突描きのリン, Entotsu-kaki no Rin), a different Miyazaki film which was never released. [29] In the special features of the Japanese DVD, Hayao Miyazaki explains how the song in fact inspired him to create Spirited Away. [29] The song itself would be recognized as Gold at the 43rd Japan Record Awards. [30] Spirited Away– All Releases". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019 . Retrieved 25 October 2019. Spirited Away Box Office and Rental History". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 16 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 April 2006.Spirited Away (2002)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016 . Retrieved 18 July 2023.

Elley, Derek (18 February 2002). "Spirited Away Review". Variety. Archived from the original on 3 February 2021 . Retrieved 2 September 2011. Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan's most successful film, and one of the top-grossing 'foreign language' films ever released. Set in modern Japan, the film is a wildly imaginative fantasy, at once personal and universal. It tells the story of a listless little girl, Chihiro, who stumbles into a magical world where gods relax in a palatial bathhouse, where there are giant babies and hard-working soot sprites, and where a train Statistical Yearbook 2017 (PDF). United Kingdom: British Film Institute (BFI). 2017. pp.140–1 . Retrieved 25 April 2022. Every summer, Hayao Miyazaki spent his vacation at a mountain cabin with his family and five girls who were friends of the family. The idea for Spirited Away came about when he wanted to make a film for these friends. Miyazaki had previously directed films for small children and teenagers such as My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service, but he had not created a film for ten-year-old girls. For inspiration, he read shōjo manga magazines like Nakayoshi and Ribon the girls had left at the cabin, but felt they only offered subjects on "crushes" and romance. When looking at his young friends, Miyazaki felt this was not what they "held dear in their hearts" and decided to produce the film about a young heroine whom they could look up to instead. [17] Hayao Miyazaki used shōjo manga magazines for inspiration to direct Spirited Away.

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Prizes & Honours 2002". Berlinale. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013 . Retrieved 9 August 2013. Honestly, my review is influenced by the movie rather than the book. This was one of the movie that I watched and thought "Wow, that will be cool." The picture book, even though I didn't read it, was super cool and expensive, which belong to a friend. Hopefully, I'll be able to buy it one day. HSC Extension course" (PDF). New South Wales Department of Education and Training. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 January 2017 . Retrieved 7 July 2016. Sunada, Mami (Director) (16 November 2013). 夢と狂気の王国[ The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness] (Documentary) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Studio Ghibli. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014 . Retrieved 12 July 2014. Interview with Toshio Suzuki The 75th Academy Awards (2003)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 28 November 2017 . Retrieved 1 December 2017.

Gomes, Paul. "Lesson Plan– Spirited Away" (PDF). UHM. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2013 . Retrieved 12 August 2013. Spirited Away tells the story of Chihiro Ogino (Hiiragi), a ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters the world of kami (spirits of Japanese Shinto folklore). [8] After her parents are turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba (Natsuki), 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. a b c Satoshi, Ando. 11 February 2009. "Regaining Continuity with the Past: Spirited Away and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Bookbird 46(1):23–29. doi: 10.1353/bkb.0.0016. The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000–2009)". Paste. 3 November 2009. Archived from the original on 12 December 2011 . Retrieved 14 December 2011. Statistical Yearbook 11" (PDF). British Film Institute (BFI). 2011. p.109 . Retrieved 21 April 2022.The name of life/late summer)". Ayaka Hirahara. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013 . Retrieved 1 September 2013. Chihiro's parents turning into pigs symbolizes how some humans become greedy. At the very moment Chihiro says there is something odd about this town, her parents turn into pigs. There were people that "turned into pigs" during Japan's bubble economy ( consumer society) of the 1980s, and these people still haven't realized they've become pigs. Once someone becomes a pig, they don't return to being human but instead gradually start to have the "body and soul of a pig". These people are the ones saying, "We are in a recession and don't have enough to eat." This doesn't just apply to the fantasy world. Perhaps this isn't a coincidence and the food is actually (an analogy for) "a trap to catch lost humans". [42]

Commentators have often referred to environmental themes in the films of Miyazaki. In Spirited Away, two major instances of allusions to environmental issues have been noted. Pam Coats, for example, a Vice President of Walt Disney Feature Animation, describes Chihiro dealing with the "stink spirit", who, it turns out, is actually a river spirit but is so corrupted with filth that one couldn't tell what it was at first glance. It only became clean again when Chihiro pulled out a huge amount of trash, including car tires, garbage, and a bicycle. This alludes to human pollution of the environment, and how people can carelessly toss away things without thinking of the consequences and of where the trash will go. [46]Following a sell-out tour of Japan in 2022, the original Japanese cast including Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi, who both play Chihiro, will perform this spectacular production for a strictly limited London season from April to August 2024.