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Spirited Away was Hayao Miyazaki’s first Oscar win, and the first hand-drawn non-English-language animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003. The film invites audiences into a mind-bending supernatural realm when a wrong turn on a family road trip lands 10-year-old Chihiro in a mysterious dimension populated by all manner of creatures, including soot gremlins (first introduced in My Neighbor Totoro), the giant witch Yubaba, and, most memorably, the enigmatic No Face. To find her parents and return to the real world, Chihiro must work at an enchanted bathhouse serving spirits of all shapes and sizes. A tour de force of surrealist invention, Spirited Away is a timeless wonder filled with whimsy and joy.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2001 | 125 min. | Japan | Color | English (Dubbed) | Rated PG | DCP
DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Hayao Miyazaki
WITH: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden, Susan Egan