Spirited Away ( Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi )

Spirited Away (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Japanese ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
124 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Behind the scenes
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Storyboards
Trailer(s)
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Hayao Miyazaki
Kirk Wise

Written By:
Hayao Miyazaki

Actors:
Rumi Hiiragi ..... Chihiro Ogino / Sen (voice)
Miyu Irino ..... Haku (voice)
Mari Natsuki ..... Yubaba / Zeniba (voice)
Takashi Nait? ..... Akio Ogino (voice)
Yasuko Sawaguchi ..... Y?ko Ogino (voice)
Tatsuya Gash?in ..... Aogaeru (voice)
Ry?nosuke Kamiki ..... B? (voice)
Yumi Tamai ..... Rin (voice)
Y? ?izumi ..... Bandai-gaeru (voice)
Koba Hayashi ..... Kawa no Kami (voice)
Tsunehiko Kamij? ..... Chichiyaku (voice)
Takehiko Ono ..... Aniyaku (voice)
Bunta Sugawara ..... Kamaj? (voice)
Shigeru Wakita ..... (voice)
Shiro Saito ..... (voice)

Synopsis:

Master animator Hayao Miyazaki directs this fantasy adventure about Chihiro, a ten-year-old girl who is leaving behind everything she knows to move with her parents to a new home. Along the way, they stumble across a tunnel that leads to a spooky, deserted open-air restaurant where Chihiro's parents sit down and begin to eat. But she is uncomfortable with their new surroundings and wanders off to explore further. She meets a boy, Haku, who explains to her that the world they have entered is a holiday resort for spirits who have left behind their exhausting earthly duties. After discovering that her greedy parents have been turned into pigs, she learns the number one rule of the new world she is now part of: laziness is not tolerated, and only working hard can enable her to break the spell on her parents. With its fantastical critique of an adult world of capitalism and wasteful consumption, entwined with the simple tale of a girl finding herself and learning to get by on her own, the film has been dubbed a modern-day 'Alice in Wonderland', and won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside, much to Chihiro's dismay. On the way to their new home, Chihiro's father makes a wrong turn and drives down a lonely one-lane road which dead-ends in front of a tunnel. Her parents decide to stop the car and explore the area. They go through the tunnel and find an abandoned amusement park on the other side, with its own little town. When her parents see a restaurant with great-smelling food but no staff, they decide to eat and pay later. However, Chihiro refuses to eat and decides to explore the theme park a bit more. She meets a boy named Haku who tells her that Chihiro and her parents are in danger, and they must leave immediately She runs to the restaurant and finds that her parents have turned into pigs. In addition, the theme park turns out to be a town inhabited by demons, spirits, and evil gods. At the center of the town is a bathhouse where these creatures go to relax. The owner of the bathhouse is the evil witch Yubaba, who is intent on keeping all trespassers as captive workers, including Chihiro. Chihiro must rely on Haku to save her parents in hopes of returning to their world.

While moving to a new home in Japan, Chihiro and her parents take a wrong turn down a mysterious wooded path. They come across an ominous-looking tunnel of which only Chihiro is scared. Going through the tunnel, they are lead them to a mysterious town filled with restaurants that have all kinds of delicious food on display. Chihiro's parents quickly sit down and start gorging themselves, assuming they will pay the restaurant upon their return. Chihiro's doubt of this strange town leads her to wander off, and she comes across a building of titanic size, where a young boy warns her to leave before nightfall. However, as the sun sets, the town begins to fill up with the gods of Japan's mythology, and Chihiro returns to find her parents mysteriously turned into pigs. The young boy, Haku, works in the building, which is a bathhouse for 8 Million gods. He helps Chihiro find work in this new world, find a way to save her parents from a dinner platter, and find her way home.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 05 March, 2015.