Spirited Away (2001)

July 20, 2001 (JP) • Animation, Family, Fantasy • 125m

Overview

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes 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 her family.

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Writer

Hayao Miyazaki

Top Billed

Rumi Hiiragi

Keywords

witch parent child relationship darkness bath house magic spirit parallel world amusement park youkai japanese mythology anime

Where to watch

Free / Included

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Top Billed Cast

Rumi Hiiragi

Chihiro (voice)

Miyu Irino

Haku (voice)

Mari Natsuki

Yubaba / Zeniba (voice)

Takashi Naito

Father (voice)

Yasuko Sawaguchi

Mother (voice)

Tatsuya Gashuin

Aogaeru (voice)

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Boh (voice)

Yumi Tamai

Rin (voice)

Yo Oizumi

Bandai Frog (voice)

Koba Hayashi

River Spirit (voice)

Tsunehiko Kamijô

Chichiyaku (voice)

Takehiko Ono

Aniyaku (voice)

Bunta Sugawara

Kamaji (voice)

Shigeru Wakita

(voice)

Shirou Saitou

(voice)

Michiko Yamamoto

(voice)

Keiko Tsukamoto

(voice)

Akio Nakamura

Kaonashi (voice)

Shinji Tokumaru

(voice)

Kaori Yamagata

(voice)

Tsuzuki Kayako

(voice)

Masahiro Asano

(voice)

Kazutaka Hayashida

(voice)

Ikuko Yamamoto

(voice)

Mina Meguro

(voice)

Tetsurô Ishibashi

(voice)

Katsutomo Shîbara

(voice)

Shinobu Katabuchi

(voice)

Noriko Kitou

(voice)

Naoto Kaji

(voice)

Yoshitaka Sukegawa

(voice)

Aki Tachikawa

(voice)

Noriko Yamaya

(voice)

Katsuhisa Matsuo

(voice)

Masayuki Kizu

(voice)

Yôko Ôno

(voice)

Sachie Azuma

(voice)

Ken Yasuda

Oshira-sama (voice)

Shigeyuki Totsugi

Kashira (voice)

Mayumi Saco

(voice)

Sonoko Soeda

(voice)

Akiko Tomihira

(voice)

Minako Masuda

(voice)

Orika Ono

(voice)

Rina Yamada

(voice)

Miwa Takachi

(voice)

Hiromi Takeuchi

(voice)

Makiko Oku

(voice)

Crew

Yasuyoshi Tokuma

Executive Producer

Takeshi Seyama

Editor

Yoji Takeshige

Art Direction

Joe Hisaishi

Original Music Composer

Hayao Miyazaki

Director

Toshio Suzuki

Producer

Atsushi Okui

Director of Photography

Kitaro Kosaka

Animation Director

Masashi Ando

Animation Director

Megumi Kagawa

Animation Director

Atsushi Tamura

Compositing Artist

Akihiko Yamashita

Key Animation

Misuzu Kurata

Key Animation

Hideki Hamasu

Key Animation

Yoshihiro Osugi

Key Animation

Mariko Matsuo

Key Animation

Kenichi Konishi

Key Animation

Kenichi Yamada

Key Animation

Hideaki Yoshio

Key Animation

Yuichi Tanaka

Key Animation

Eiji Yamamori

Key Animation

Atsushi Tamura

Key Animation

Atsushi Yamagata

Key Animation

Katsutoshi Nakamura

Key Animation

Shizue Kaneko

Key Animation

Hiromasa Ogura

Background Designer

Masako Nagata

Background Designer

Masaru Matsuse

Key Animation

Makiko Futaki

Key Animation

Kaori Fujii

Key Animation

Masahiro Kubota

Background Designer

Noboru Yoshida

Assistant Art Director

Shinji Hashimoto

Key Animation

Kikuyo Yano

Background Designer

Hisaki Furukawa

Key Animation

Masaru Ohshiro

Key Animation

Ryoko Ina

Background Designer

Hiroaki Sasaki

Background Designer

Makiko Suzuki

Key Animation

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Key Animation

Tamami Yamada

Key Animation

Noboru Takano

Key Animation

Shojuro Yamauchi

Key Animation

Sayaka Hirahara

Background Designer

Hisae Saito

Background Designer

Kazuyoshi Onoda

Key Animation

Atsuko Tanaka

Key Animation

Osamu Masuyama

Background Designer

Kazuo Nagai

Background Designer

Nobuyuki Takeuchi

Key Animation

Shigeru Kimishima

Key Animation

Shinya Ohira

Key Animation

Yoshikazu Fukutome

Background Designer

Kuniyuki Ishii

Key Animation

Takaaki Yamashita

Key Animation

Hiroomi Yamakawa

Key Animation

Naomi Kasugai

Background Designer

Tomoe Ishihara

Background Designer

Takeshi Inamura

Key Animation

Shougo Furuya

Key Animation

Keiko Itogawa

Background Designer

Masanori Kikuchi

Background Designer

Koji Hoshino

Co-Executive Producer

Hironori Aihara

Co-Executive Producer

Yutaka Narita

Co-Executive Producer

Junji Yabuta

Compositing Artist

Naoya Tanaka

Background Designer

Hisashi Mori

Key Animation

Kyoko Naganawa

Background Designer

Banjiro Uemura

Co-Executive Producer

Takeyoshi Matsushita

Co-Executive Producer

Seiichiro Ujiie

Co-Executive Producer

Masako Shinohara

Key Animation

Mitsunori Kataama

Animation Director

Michiyo Yasuda

Color Designer

Nozomu Takahashi

Production Manager

Atsushi Takahashi

Assistant Director

Mikio Mori

Dolby Consultant

Masayuki Miyaji

Assistant Director

Wataru Takahashi

Compositing Artist

Michihiro Itou

Sound Effects

Toru Noguchi

Sound Effects

Tsutomu Kawahigashi

Dolby Consultant

Youmi Kimura

Theme Song Performance

Shuji Inoue

Sound Mixer

Nizou Yamamoto

Background Designer

Dave Bossert

Thanks

Kazuo Oga

Background Designer

Yoshiyuki Momose

Key Animation

Goro Miyazaki

Writers' Assistant

Hayao Miyazaki

Original Story

Hayao Miyazaki

Screenplay

Youmi Kimura

Main Title Theme Composer

Reviews

ZeBlah

⭐ 10/10

June 29, 2019

One of the great "masters" of the anime art. Somehow, if I would personally associate "Akira" to "self-destruction", then this anime would be the opposite :)

CinemaSerf

⭐ 7/10

December 28, 2024

I quite liked the look of the new house that "Chihiro" and her parents were to move to, but she isn't so keen, and being ten had the weight of the world on her shoulders. En route to meet the removal men, her dad takes a wrong turning and soon, together with her mum, end up at the end of a tunnel. What would you do? Go in of course! Luckily it's quite a short walk before they find themselves in a small village that's full of shops all laid out for a banquet. Mum and dad tuck in but the young girl just wants to get going. Ignored, she explores a little as they gorge themselves and that's when she encounters the young "Haku" who suggests that she might like to leave. Snag is - her parents have quite literally now gone a bit porcine and she's going to have to rely on her new friend if she is to rescue them from an impending visit to the abattoir. A job is her first task, and for that she needs a contract with the wart-nosed witch "Yubaba" - and so off we go on a series of marvellously creative escapades discovering some coal spirits; that her friend has a secret identity; her boss an huge great baby and the entire place serves as a sort of bathhouse for the enigmatic "No Face" whose agenda isn't clear to anyone, though we do know he has a rapacious appetite and can make his own gold! The detail of the animation is astonishing and coupled with the mysticism of ancient Japanese folk lore works really well at creating a characterful and engaging story. I just love the lithe dragons of Oriental mythology as opposed to the scaly, stodgy, European ones. The concept of identity underpins much of the narrative here, with not just "Chihiro" but pretty much everyone else coming to terms with flaws and strengths in their personalities requiring a degree of human spirit, trust and forgiveness if ever anyone is to thrive and if ever she and her folks are to get to that new house on the hill. It's two hours really goes fly by and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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