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千と千尋の ゆめいなえいが
Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し (//Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi)//

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えいがの中でみやざきのが一番好きです. 千と千尋の神隠し(せんとちひろのかみかくし)は一番ゆうめいなえいがなのタイタニックより 千と千尋の神隠しの方がみんしゅてきです. 百二十五分 まであります. 二 千一にえいがをつくります. 千ひろは十さいです.ふるいまちから新しいうちまきるのなのでものさびしいです. 千ひろとりょしんえいがのはじまるのはしんぴてきなかどをさがしだします. たしさんかみとあいます. えいがのおわりにうちにかえります.

Vocab List

タイタニック-Titanic りょしん　-parents みんしゅうてき-popular しんぴてき-mysterious かどーgate さがしだす-to discover さい-counter for age ものさびし-lonely おわる-end はじまる-beginning かみーspirits

Plot Summary:

“Spirited Away” follows the story of Chihiro, a young Japanese girl whose family has just decided to move to the suburbs. During the family move Chihiro’s father decides to take a shortcut down a mysterious dirt road. While driving down the dirt path the family stumbles upon an open-air restaurant filled with tons of free food, however there is no one working there and no costumers. Although Chihiro questions her family’s decision to stop there, her parents do not see any danger in stopping. Once its nighttime the restaurant becomes filled with faceless spirits. It is at this time that Chihiro’s parents unfortunately turn into pigs. Luckily, Chihiro befriends a boy named Haku. Haku works in a bathhouse that is home to thousands of Japanese gods and spirits. Chihiro works along side Haku in hopes of breaking the mysterious spell and save her parents before they become dinner. In the end Chihiro is able to break the spell and turn her parents back into her parents.

= Cultural Roots and Themes =

Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, far surpasses its role as an animated movie. The cultural influence that Miyazaki works into the film is astounding, and the film has much deeper traditional Japanese roots than some of Miyazaki's other films, such as Kiki's Delivery Service or Howl's Moving Castle. Although it was partially influenced by Western Films, such as the Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland, “Spirited Away,” or 千と千尋の神隠し, the film's title in Japanese, has deep ties to traditional culture.

The setting of the movie in particular is of note, in that a majority of the film takes place in the bathhouse of the native spirits of the land, or Kami. The bathhouse itself is a trademark of Japanese culture, but, even moreso, is the way that Chihiro(Whose name can be taken to mean great learning), the protagonist of the film arrives there. The term in Japanese is kamikakushi, a term in ancient Shinto legends that attributed a person's absence to being kidnapped by the gods, or “Spirited Away.” During her stay in the bathhouse, Chihiro encounters many entities, varying from river spirits to monsters such as no-face. The film came at a time when Japan was still recovering from its bubble burst, and this theme is very prevalent in the film. The abandoned playground in particular is a striking scene, and it's one of many that was left in such a condition after the economic collapse. It's a commentary on culture, in a way, as Chihiro's struggling to find a balance between the new and old worlds can be seen as a struggle to find a balance between traditional Japanese and Western values, as is Chihiro's moving between neighborhoods.

Environmental themes play a large part in the film as well, especially in the entities of the river spirits. Kohaku's case in particular is interesting because, as it's shown throughout the movie, he's been polluted, and, in the Japanese ending of the film, it's implied that he can't recover.

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= Significance and Reception in the West =

Although there's a large gap between animation in America and animation in Japan, Spirited Away as done very well in the west, becoming the first non-English movie to win the Academy Award for animation. It has also won awards at the San Francisco Film Festival and is on BFI's list of 50 movies to see before you turn 14.