Spirited Away
A seemingly abandoned amusement park turned out to be a home of ghost and some unseen creatures.
15 September 1971, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
1 August 1942, Tokyo, Japan
19 June 1946, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
31 August 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 January 1937, New York City, New York, USA
December 07, 2014
This one is an event, a huge accomplishment in the world of traditional animation and a powerful rebuttal to the notion that films for children must be simplistic and visually dull.
November 27, 2013
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.
April 23, 2014
Artful but not arty, Spirited Away is a handcrafted cartoon, as personal as an Utamaro painting, yet its breadth and heart give it an appeal that should touch American viewers of all ages.
July 28, 2015
Part Alice in Wonderland and part Hansel and Gretel...
November 27, 2013
It's an amazing work, filled with a visual intelligence that's meticulously composed and obscenely clever.
December 07, 2014
Knock me down with a feather, it turns out to be terrific; maybe not a masterpiece, but certainly aglitter with invention, excitement and a mysterious kind of wit.
October 25, 2011
Enchanting and impressively crafted.
December 07, 2014
Vivid, amusing and genuinely awe-inspiring.
November 27, 2013
Miyazaki's luminescent, gorgeously realized world is relatively safe for children, but it also acknowledges blood, pain, dread, and death in ways that other animated films wouldn't dare.
December 07, 2014
Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, who previously made the impressive Princess Mononoke, has created a wonderfully bizarre world filled with a gallery of creepy, and some not so-creepy, characters.
January 08, 2016
[VIDEO ESSAY] Animation legend Hayao Miyazaki's divinely imaginative display of madcap surrealism is virtuosic in this episodic coming of age classic.
April 23, 2014
The result is nothing less than magical, a throwback to the very best of early Disney. If I can't remember the last time I was this enchanted by an animated film, it's because I was too young.
