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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. 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 | Japanese with English subtitles | Rated PG | 35mm
DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Hayao Miyazaki
WITH: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naito
New subtitled print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, with special thanks to Studio Ghibli.