Spirited Away (volume 1 of 5)

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Demon Slayer Overtakes Spirited Away as Japan's Highest Grossing Film Ever". ScreenRant. 29 December 2020 . Retrieved 14 July 2023. Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba proved to be a major inspiration for Miyazaki. Miyazaki then said, "Actually, we thought about having Yubaba use an actual labor contract of some sort there, but since no one would get it even if we included an explanation, we just left it with her saying, "we're using a boring old oath." But there is a labor agreement in effect in her world because she has to give work to those who want it. Because that's the kind of society Japan originally was; people had to give work to those who wanted it. To want to work is to want to live. To live in a specific place. We skipped all the explanations. The same with the fact that Yubaba and Zeniba are really the same person. I'm that way too. I'm completely a different person when I'm at Ghibli, when I'm at home, and when I'm out and about in the community. In fact, I live in most schizoid fashion. I was worried children would accept this aspect of the movie, but they seem to have accepted it with no problem at all, so I've been greatly relieved." [5] Other Motifs [ ] A co-recipient of the Golden Bear with Bloody Sunday at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival and the first, and to date only, hand-drawn and non-English-language animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, [16] Spirited Away is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time and has been included in various "best-of" lists.

But things became clearer at the beginning of 2001. At the beginning of January, the magazine Animage presented the images of the teaser (short trailer), then screened in Japanese theaters. On January 26, the NTV channel broadcasts it exclusively on television. Soon follow a new trailer, the trailer and finally a clip illustrating the magnificent song of the end credits. But there is more to promoting the film than advertisements on television. Tôhô, the film's distributor in Japan, is carrying out a Disney-worthy marketing campaign and, with such media hype, observers expect a tidal wave. Miyazaki explained, "Recently my friends and I use the word asamashii [despicable or disgraceful] a lot. It's a word that's fallen out of favor these days, but it seems perfectly suited to describe the current Japan. It originally refereed to things that should have been more embarrassing and shameful of all." Akihiro Oyama, Akiko Nasu (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio), Akiko Shimizu (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio), Akira Sugino, Do Hee Lee (JEM), Eun-Kyung Lee (JEM), Fumino Okura (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio), Hee Hwa Yun (JEM), Hiroshi Iijima (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio), Jin-Wook Kim (JEM), Kanako Takahashi (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio), Keum I Han (JEM), Kim Byoung Ryul (JEM), Kumi Nanjo (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio), Lee Kyung Heo (JEM), Masayo Iseki, Mi Sun Kim (JEM), Michiko Saito (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio), Myeong-Suk Kim (JEM), Myoung Hoi An (JEM), Myoung Sun Kim (JEM), Na Sung Park (JEM), Naomi Mori, Rie Okada, Soon Hwa Choi (JEM), Sun Ki Ham (DR Digital), Tae Jong Kim (JEM), Tomotaka Shibayama, Yuki Yokoyama (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio), Yumiko Ukai The bathhouse workers dislike Sen, but give her work as Lin's assistant. Later that night, when Yubaba leaves, Haku finds Sen and shows her her parents, who are being held in pigpens. Haku explains that Yubaba controls people by taking their names; if she completely forgets hers like he once did, she will never be able to leave the spirit world. Sen is ostracized by the other workers. While working, she invites No-Face inside, accidentally believing him to be a customer.All Asian releases of the DVD (including Japan and Hong Kong) have a noticeably accentuated amount of red in their picture transfer. This is another case of compensating for home theatre displays, this time supposedly for LCD television which, it was claimed, had a diminished red color in its display. Releases in other DVD regions such as the US, Europe and Australia use a picture transfer where this "red tint" has been significantly reduced.

Production of the film began at the end of 1999 and ended in June 2001. As usual, Hayao Miyazaki realized that the film would last more than three hours, if he had made it according to his original proposal. Much of the original script was cut to expedite the film's length. Due to relatively tight production deadlines (one and a half years instead of three for Princess Mononoke), Spirited Away is the studio's first film not to have been entirely made in Japan. The development of part of the scenes was therefore entrusted to the Korean studio DR Digital, which had already worked on animated films as prestigious as Metropolis or Jin-Roh.

No-Face is a lonely spirit who begins to follow Chihiro Ogino after having developed an interest in her sincerity. His vocabulary consisted of grunts and moans as opposed to coherent words. Not knowing much about the Bathhouse or about other spirits in general, No-Face learned by example and adapted to his surroundings.