The movie is a surreal Alice in Wonderland-like tale about a lost little girl. During her family's move to the suburbs, sullen 10-year-old Chihiro wanders into a world ruled by bizarre gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
7 November 1973, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
12 February 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
16 August 1933, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2 January 1938, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 January 1975, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
15 September 1971, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
19 May 1993, Saitama, Japan
5 October 1954, Portugal
2 May 1952, Tokyo, Japan
27 May 1955, Osaka, Japan
20 May 1952, Tacoma, Washington, USA
20 November 1951, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
31 January 1937, New York City, New York, USA
28 July 1940, Goshen, Indiana, USA
8 March 1964, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
30 August 1963, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
31 August 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
January 08, 2016
[VIDEO ESSAY] Animation legend Hayao Miyazaki's divinely imaginative display of madcap surrealism is virtuosic in this episodic coming of age classic.
November 27, 2013
It's an amazing work, filled with a visual intelligence that's meticulously composed and obscenely clever.
November 27, 2013
Miyazaki's luminescent, gorgeously realized world is relatively safe for children, but it also acknowledges blood, pain, dread, and death in ways that other animated films wouldn't dare.
April 23, 2014
Artful but not arty, Spirited Away is a handcrafted cartoon, as personal as an Utamaro painting, yet its breadth and heart give it an appeal that should touch American viewers of all ages.
November 27, 2013
Spirited Away has much to say about many worthy things: the life of the spirit, materialist greed, the importance of words, the power of love.
December 07, 2014
Vivid, amusing and genuinely awe-inspiring.
December 07, 2014
Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, who previously made the impressive Princess Mononoke, has created a wonderfully bizarre world filled with a gallery of creepy, and some not so-creepy, characters.
December 07, 2014
Knock me down with a feather, it turns out to be terrific; maybe not a masterpiece, but certainly aglitter with invention, excitement and a mysterious kind of wit.
July 28, 2015
Part Alice in Wonderland and part Hansel and Gretel...
December 07, 2014
This one is an event, a huge accomplishment in the world of traditional animation and a powerful rebuttal to the notion that films for children must be simplistic and visually dull.
April 23, 2014
The result is nothing less than magical, a throwback to the very best of early Disney. If I can't remember the last time I was this enchanted by an animated film, it's because I was too young.
October 25, 2011
Enchanting and impressively crafted.
