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Format : NTSC
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 0786936213850
Product Group : Video
Release Date : 2003-04-15
Studio : Buena Vista
UPC : 786936213850
ASIN : B00005JLET
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Editorial Reviews
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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
Additional Features
The most interesting extra feature on the two-disc set is the Nippon Television Special on the making of Spirited Away, not because it's significantly different from American making-of programs, but because the camera crew was allowed to film Miyazaki at work. It's fascinating to watch the visionary director explaining how individual movements should be animated, and even performing the little dance the frog-master does to welcome the No-Face to Yubaba's bath house. (Old animators describe Walt Disney giving similar performances, but no comparable footage exists.) It's also striking to see how intimate Studio Ghibli is, unencumbered by the tiers of management that burden American studios. The scene comparisons enable the viewer to study the storyboards for the film, which Miyazaki draws himself. These simple yet wonderfully vivid images capture the essence of a mood, a movement, an expression. "Behind the Microphone" offers a fairly standard behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the excellent English version of Spirited Away. --Charles Solomon
Amazon.ca
Après nous avoir ravis avec Mon voisin Totoro et Princesse Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki nous propose un nouveau voyage au cœur de son surprenant imaginaire. Couronné de l'oscar du meilleur film d'animation en 2003, Spirited Away privilégie une vision onirique d'auteur.
Sur la route qui les mène à leur nouvelle maison, Chihiro, 10 ans, et ses parents sont loin de se douter de l'aventure qui les attend. Au détour d'un raccourci, ils découvrent un tunnel improbable qu'ils décident d'explorer. Ce n'est pas la lumière qu'ils trouveront au bout de celui-ci, mais plutôt un monde étrange et fascinant où les adultes sont transformés en cochons et les petites filles contraintes de travailler pour de vieilles sorcières hydrocéphales, maîtresses des bains où se purifient les esprits.
Sorte d'Alice au pays des merveilles à la sauce nippone, Spirited Away est un film fantastique aux deux sens du terme. Au rythme de l'espiègle et attachante Chihiro, nous sommes initiés à un univers surnaturel peuplé d'êtres merveilleux, inquiétants et amusants, faits de traits fluides et de couleurs vives, un théâtre de rebondissements tous plus captivants les uns que les autres. Le toujours créatif Hayao Miyazaki fait mouche, encore une fois, avec son conte bourré de charmantes idées et d'images poétiques, qui ne sacrifie jamais l'intelligence de son public sur l'autel de la facilité. Un enchantement pour tous ceux qui voudront bien renouer avec leurs âmes d'enfants. --Helen Faradji
Customer Reviews
Pure Imagination (2007-08-24)  I can watch this movie over and over again and find something new every time. The story is pure imagination, the animation is phenomenal, and the whole movie takes you away to another place. An all time classic.
intense and entertaining (2005-11-11)  My teen daughters and I loved this movie.
THE BEST MOVIE EVER (2005-10-08) I never knew what Spirited Away was till i has is the awards.So i watched it on TMN for the first time, and loved it...Now I own it, I just got it today, and i watched it 5 times, with different people, and they loved it, and now they are buying! This is simply an amaizng movie.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Swept away by 'Spirited Away'... (2004-10-18) 'Spirited Away' will sweep you off you feet and send you on a thrilling adventure into Miyazaki's lushly animated world full of wonderful creatures and lovably bizarre characters in a movie that will captivate you for almost two hours. It certainly did me. 'Spirited Away' is such a rare treat in today's world with little new been done with conventional cartoons in the world of cinema. Instead, all the major studios are opting for CGI-driven movies that may please visually, but tend to lack in everything else. 'Spirited Away' is lavishly beautiful too the eye, yet is also a strongly structured tale that has the heart missing out of most modern-day animation making this movie really stand out from the crowd and a definite must-see. The story focuses around a little girl named Chihiro who becomes deserted from her parents, only to return and find that they have been turned into pigs. Here she befriends the magically talented and graceful Haku, who safely guides her through, what the place she has found herself in, becomes after nightfall - a spa hotel for thousands of Japan's gods and spirits. Haku tells her that she must find work in there if she is to stay and find a way to break the spell on her parents before they become dinner for some of the hotel's demanding guests. I could find little wrong with 'Spirited Away', which is a lot coming from someone who is always trying to find something wrong with everything. I was utterly captivated in this movie from start to finish. It has everything. Fantasy, the supernatural, comedy, drama... You name it, this movie has it. I've never found that I could recommend an animated movie as highly as I can with this luxurious tale. The character design is fabulous meaning you're guaranteed to meet many kinds of gods, spirits, and creatures that you won't come across anywhere else. Some of the characters literally made me say "wow!" as they really are outstanding 'Spirited Away' is absolutely spellbinding throughout and worthy of all the praise it has, and will receive in the present and near future. See it now!
A work of art! (2004-07-19) First of all,don't listen to people who give this masterpiece bad reviews... they probably think disney movies are the only animations worth watching!This anime is fantastic... Miyazaki is truly a genius. Everything about it blew me away, from the animation and characters to its storyline! The characters have depth, and they show real emotion, and unlike disney movies, there are no annoying sidekicks or crappy songs... in fact, the music is very beautiful and heightens the feel of the movie.Even the dub is pretty good(at least in my opinion), but of course the original japanese with subtitles is best(as always)!I HIGHLY recommend this one to everyone, anime fan or not!This is definitely worth your money! Don't hesitate!
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