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Spirited Away

by Hayao Miyazaki · film · 2001

Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Each character was mostly hand-drawn, with Miyazaki working alongside his animators to see if they were getting it just right, and due to relatively tight production deadlines (one and a half years instead of three for Princess Mononoke), Spirited Away is the studio's first film not to have been entirely made in Japan. The development of part of the scenes was therefore entrusted to the Korean studio DR Digital. During production, Miyazaki often sought inspiration by visiting the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei, Tokyo. He based some of the buildings in the spirit world on the Pseudo-Western style buildings from the Meiji period that were available there.

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    Wikipedia · Spirited Awaysingle-source· article

    “Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was produced by Toshio Suzuki, animated by Studio Ghibli, and distributed by Toho. The film stars Rumi Hiiragi, alongside Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tsunehiko Kamijō, Takehiko Ono, and Bunta Sugawara. It follows a young girl named Chihiro "Sen" Ogino, who moves to a new neighborhood and inadvertently enters the world of kami. After her parents are turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba, 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.”
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    TMDB · Spirited Away· archive

    “Director: Hayao Miyazaki · Original Music Composer: Joe Hisaishi · Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui · Editor: Takeshi Seyama · Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki”
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    Wikidata · Spirited Away· archive

    “2001 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki”