Spirited Away
(Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)(2001)
From the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke), this Academy Award winner (Best Animated Film) follows the fanciful adventures of a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro.
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Best Animated Feature, Academy Awards 2003.
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Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Starring Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden, Susan Egan, David Ogden Stiers
Written by Hayao Miyazaki
Studio Studio Ghibli
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The fact that Miyazaki and his team hand-draw the images before they're digitally coloured and animated gives them an artistry that has been woefully lacking from so many recent American features. Full Review
Spirited dazzles and entertains like no other movie this year. It also comes to a satisfying conclusion and never once seems to take shortcuts. Miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers. Full Review
Prepare to be astonished by Spirited Away. Full Review
The towering, lost dreaminess at the heart of the film is an unmistakable obsession of this director. Full Review
An out-and-out charmer. It's almost impossible to do justice in words either to the visual richness of the movie, which melanges traditional Japanese clothes and architecture with both Victorian and modern-day artifacts, or to the character-filled storyline, with human figures, harpies and grotesque creatures. Full Review
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