Spirited Away- SILVER SCREEN SOCIETY

Animation, Adventure, Family, Anime | 2001 | PG. 2hr 5min
CAST: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mari Natsuki DIRECTOR: Hayao Miyazaki SILVER SCREEN SOCIETY

Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning masterpiece Spirited Away was the biggest box office hit of all time in Japan and a film that helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers.

Wandering through an abandoned carnival site, ten-year-old Chichiro is separated from her parents and stumbles into a dream-like spirit world where she is put to work in a bathhouse for the gods, a place where all kinds of nonhuman beings come to refresh, relax and recharge. Here she encounters a vast menagerie of impossibly inventive characters — shape-shifting phantoms and spirits, some friendly, some less so — and must find the inner strength to outsmart her captors and return to her family. Combining Japanese mythology with Through the Looking Glass-type whimsy, Spirited Away cemented Miyazaki's reputation as an icon of inspired animation and wondrous, lyrical storytelling. During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

There will be two versions of the film available throughout the week:

English (dubbed)
Japanese with English subtitles

Dub/Subbed Schedule:

Friday 7/7: English Dubbed

Saturday 7/8: Japanese Subtitled

Sunday 7/9: English Dubbed

Monday 7/10: Japanese Subtitled

Tuesday 7/11: English Dubbed

Wednesday 7/12: Japanese Subtitled

Thursday 7/13 English Dubbed

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Reviews

Spirited Away has much to say about many worthy things: the life of the spirit, materialist greed, the importance of words, the power of love.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Vivid, amusing and genuinely awe-inspiring.

Neil Norman, London Evening Standard