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Erin Jang 12/11/12

Yearbook and Journalism Period 6 Miyazaki’s Movie Review

Title of the movie is “Spirited Away.” With the voices of: Chihiro: Daveigh Chase

Yubaba, Zeniba: Suzanne Pleshette Haku: Jason Marsden Kamaji: Chihiro’s mother: Lauren Holly

Assistant Manager: John Ratzenberger This film is presented by Studios, this film was written and directed by . The U.S. version is directed by Kirk Wise. It is 124 minutes long. (2 hours and 4 minutes)Rated PG, because there are some scary scene. A lot of people agree that “Miyazaki’s Spirited Away” is very similar to “Alice in the Wonderland,” and yes it tells about a 10‐year‐old girl who wanders into a spirited world, in the world there are creatures that don’t even exist in the real world and has these crazy rules. But the storyline is delightful and unique in its own way. The creator is a Japanese master who is a god to the Disney animators.

This delightful movie has been dubbed into English by, the writer of “Toy Story,” It won co winner of the year, Berlin Film Festival against “regular” movies, it has passed “Titanic” to become the top grossing film in the Japanese history, and it was the first film to ever make more than $200 million before opening in America. This is a wonderful film, don’t avoid the movie because you think you know the animation in Japan. And if you only go for Disney Animation, but, you should know that this film is being released by Disney.

Miyazaki’s other works (“My Neighbor Totoro,” “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” “Princess Mononoke”) are also known in USA. He doesn’t usually use computers. He also has a complexity of often drawing out the characters. He draws thousands and thousands of frames, there is also a richly painted, unique artwork that he had made. “Spirited Away” is being told through the eyes of Chihiro, a 10year old girl who is more personal and less epic, then Princess Mononoke. As the story is starting, Chihiro is on her way to her new home her father mistakenly takes the family to explore a mysterious dark tunnel. The other side of the tunnel ends up being an old theme park; with a delightful smell of food. As her parents go on to take a free meal, Chihiro wanders away, ending up at a mysterious bathhouse. A mysterious boy named Haku appears to be her guide and to warn her that the witch who runs the bathhouse whose name is Yubaba, she will try to steal Chihiro’s name and her identity. Yubaba has a huge face; and has to deal with her unusually large baby, named Boh. She ends up remaining Chihiro who wanders around the place, like “Totoro,” with little tiny black fur balls with dust. While walking towards the structure, she comes upon a man named Kamaji, who is dressed in a formal coat and has either limbs, That he uses them to get different items from different shelves. High or low, he can reach them. There is a good side to him, and he isn’t a friend of Yubaba, and perceives Chihiro with her goodness.

If Yubaba is the scariest in the film and Kamaji the freakiest, then Okutaresama is the one with the most urgent messages. He is the Spirit of the River, and his body has sucked up some dirty junk. At one point, he actually sucked up a bicycle. As Miyazaki did in his film, he made the character do wondrous things, but mostly Chihiro when she finds out that her parents have turned into pigs while eating the food in the beginning, and she has to save them. Haku is much more than he seems to be, Yeah, the bathhouse is being under spells and different odd things, But It’s still an enchanting place to be.