Studio Ghibli’s finest hour.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI, THE animation genius behind some of Studio Ghibli’s greatest hits, doesn’t write scripts. By his own account he starts production before he’s even finished storyboarding, with the plot unfolding as he gets his animators rolling, which somewhat explains the dream logic that informs Spirited Away. Of course our hero’s parents would be turned into pigs; of course she would share a lift with a giant radish spirit; of course a boy would also be a dragon who is in fact a river. The whole magical adventure is conducted with such a sure hand, and such a detailed sense of place and character, that you never question its weirder aspects. And the story turns weird, and wyrd, fast, and only gets more bizarre until about a minute before the end.
The plot centres on Chihiro (Rumi Hiiragi in the original Japanese/Daveigh Chase in the dubbed version), a 10-yearold girl who is reluctantly moving to a new town with her parents. When her father takes a wrong turn and the family go exploring, her parents are transformed into pigs and Chihiro herself must take a job at a bath-house for spirits in order to survive and save them. She manages to muddle through, and slowly find her feet among creatures of myth and magic, with the help of a mysterious young man called Haku and a spider-man (not to be confused with Peter Parker) who works in the boiler room.
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