| | |  | Childrens & Family | Home » » Spirited Away | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | From one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animated cinema comes the most acclaimed film of 2002. Hayao Miyazaki's latest triumph, filled with astonishing animation and epic adventure, is a dazzling masterpiece for the ages. It's a "wonderfully welcoming work of art that's as funny and entertaining as it is brilliant, beautiful, and deep" (Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal). SPIRITED AWAY is 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. An unforgettable story brimming with creativity, SPIRITED AWAY will take you on a journey beyond your imagination. "To enter the world of Hayao Miyazaki is to experience a kind of lighthearted enchantment that is unique to the world of animation" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). It's a fantastic tale the whole family will want to experience over and over again. | | | Product Details: | | | Director:
| Hayao Miyazaki | | Format:
| Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English, French, Japanese | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Walt Disney Video | | Run Time:
| 125 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| April 15, 2003 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 917 reviews |
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 A Fantastic Film.Aug 31, 2010
This is the first Hayao Miyazaki film I have seen and I will certainly watch his others. The story plays on many elements successful with kids films, that transport you back to your own childhood and also allows the young audience to connect with the themes in the movie too. Now this is not the type of film that I would usually end up enjoying but I was completely wrong, this is anime at it's best. The story centers around Chihiro, a young girl who complains and mopes alot who is about to move into a new place and who feels insecure about the new environment she will be living in. These fears become a part of her encounter with a strange abandoned amusement park that she and her parents find when they reach a dead end in their car. At the park they find that their is a stall that is seemingly open, with displays of mouth watering food. There are no people about but Chihiros parents decide to gorge themselves on this food and pay later.
the story then continues Chihiro starts growing from sullen and spoiled to capable and confident, thanks to a strange, sometimes terrifying journey to another world. The other world is inhabited by gods and monsters, kind of like Alice in Wonderland with a Japanese mythology bent. With Chihiro's parents transformed into pigs, the frightened girl must acclimate herself to the rules of this new world--and its unusual power structure. Led by her mysterious new friend Haku, she must go to work in the local bathhouse for the witch Yubaba, signing away her name in exchange for a job. Now called Sen, she must figure out a way to rescue her parents before she forgets her identity and becomes trapped forever in the spirit world.
The story is very imaginative and the characters and animations are endlessly unique and strange, I was really blown away by this. This is just so much more creative than Hollywood. The characters are likeable and we become engrossed with Chihiros adventures inside this bathhouse, and the characters she comes into contact with as she tries to get her parents back as humans and whilst trying to get back to the human world. What I also loved in this film is that the animation gives it a real sense of cinematography, the drawing makes the film stand out in a way that American animations rarely do. Spirited Away is just the best animated film I've seen, it's also a great piece of art. I highly recommend this wonderful film.
Spirited AwayAug 25, 2010
Miyazaki is simply the best of the best in Anime. This item was shipped together with 5 other titles, they were well packaged and received very quickly from Amazon.com. Thank you.
One of his BEST!Aug 22, 2010
I am a fan of most of Hiyao Miyazaki's films, my favorite being "Howl's Moving Castle". This one is right up there.
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 Bad product, but good service!Aug 04, 2010
I bought a copy of Spirited Away that was "Like New". Once I received the DVD and went to watch it, it skipped terribly and then just stopped playing. Thankfully though, it was easy to return and get the money back! The service was great.
0 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Spirited AwayAug 02, 2010
This movie was promised that it worked like new, even though it was used, and it skips 2-3 scenes in the middle of the movie.
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