Making of Spirited Away - Part 1

Japanese animé at its finest, Spirited Away is guaranteed to delight hardcore devotees, and those who've yet to make an acquaintance with the best that the East has to offer. See it and marvel.

A wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world.

With none of the sentimentality of Disney nor the computerized sheen of Pixar, this traditional animé even blows the brilliant "Finding Nemo" out of the water. It's epic story is more imaginative, rousing and luscious than anything American animation has produced since the halcyon days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

The workings of Miyazaki's wild imagination are laid bare in set pieces like Chihiro's attempt to bathe a 'stink god' - a slobbering mass of slime and grease who stinks the bathhouse out. His feel for the eccentric is even drawn into incidental characters like The Frog in a kimono, and the three disembodied green heads who roll around muttering to themselves.

[jikotaka]

Such a masterpiece...
I don't know why but I strangely like the train sequence where she sits in the train and see those painting-like landscapes and shadowy people on the platform.
It's so beautiful and nostalgic.

[damatically]

This is the first ghilbi movie that i've watched this is really amazing

[xhenri]

The American dubbing of Spirited Away is quite excellent, but as with most foreign films, it's best to watch it in its original language with subtitles.

[TheBikeOnTheMoon]

I hope Disney won't come up with the idea of buying studio Ghibli.

[mememono]

OMG... Chihiro and Haku's voice lol
I love Japanese ver.

[fluffybuni]

Just seeing and hearing HAKU speaks soothes me. When I look at the voice actor I kind of die inside

[PACKaPUNCH]

i watched spirited away SO many times as a kid, even at my birthday party i had everyone watch it, my favorite film yet.

[lynxdre]

Heh I thought it would be interviews of the Japanese animators and of how they came about the film and the works that they did but it's literally just them westerners talking about the story and only 2 Japanese appeared amazin

[irlandflow]

Its so Sad to know that mayazaki Will not make any more movies.

[tessalonika]

hayao miyazaki loves air plane, thats why he always put flying scene in every movie he has.

[MaTtRoSiTy]

Fantastic film much to my surprise. I watched it just to keep kids quiet and found that not only were the kids silent but I was completely taken back by this movie. A stunning piece of work that you have to see to appreciate. 

[textus]

Hayao's movies are so rich in creativity and visuals you never get bored no matter how slow the scene is. Absolute legend.

[PyroMan]

Spirited Away is a truly beautiful movie

[ngandang]

this film left a deep impression on my childhood:)i was quite terrified to watch it when i was only 7:))but such a phenonomenon story:) i imagined myself like that little girl dragged into such a world:)i would be terrifying yet exciting:)

[futuropasado]

This is just the greatest animation movie ever made, by far. The first time I watched it I was just experiencing the movie, the atmosphere sorrounds you completely, the desings blows you away. This was a stroke of genius in history, thanks Master Miyazaki for this piece of art.

[bicuti]

Castle in the sky, Howls moving castle, Spirited away. Hayao makes the best animated movies that are so fascinating but would also scare me when I was little lol

[PixieHollowtink]

This film as good as all miyazaki's masterpieces deserves wholly to have been a studio ghibli film only with no interruptions from a said company Disney.

[pritalize]

Got so upset after watching this movie. This movie is SUPER GOOD! And yet, I asking myself pretty long, WHY DIDN'T I WATCH THIS MOVIE REALLY SOON? I feel really glad, happy and day dreaming at the same time. Feel like I live inside.

[duuudddddeeeeeeeeee]

Hayao Miyazaki : One of the most amazing men on Earth.

[wabacake]

Lets all be honest, When we first watched Spirited Away we gained a crush on Haku