Spirited Away (volume 1 of 5)

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TV special of Spirited Away that aired before the film's release, featuring Rumi Hiiragi, the voice actress for Chihiro and Takashi Naitô, voice actor of Chihiro's father exploring the Edo-Tokyo Museum.

It soon became clear that outsourcing video and coloring to other domestic studios and talent would not be enough. Therefore, for the first time since the founding of Studio Ghibli, Suzuki decided to outsource to an overseas studios. Four people were sent from Ghibli to South Korea to oversee the operation. [10] Korea's DR DIGITAL was placed in charge of video and coloring, while JM Animation Co. was in charge of coloring. Their work was produced at a high standard, which satisfied the Suzuki et al. On September 20, 2000, chairman of Tokuma Shoten and Studio Ghibli president Yasuyoshi Tokuma passed away. [8] A farewell ceremony was held at Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa on October 16th of that year.. Miyazaki presided over the association. According to Seiji Kano, in Miyazaki's speech, he mentioned that all the attendees in mourning looked like frogs, implying a relationship with the frog men in Spirited Away. [9] Tokuma died without having seen the final cut of the film, but he was posthumously credited as "Executive Producer". So Rina helps in the house or is sent to the different shops that make up the village. But this is no punishment, as they are all fascinating places run by different magicians. As she works Rina becomes more self confident and finds her true character. Miyazaki didn't understand why he found this story so interesting and, intrigued, he wrote a project proposal around it, but it was also rejected. Herskovitz, Jon (15 December 1999). " 'Mononoke' creator Miyazaki toons up pic". Variety. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020 . Retrieved 24 February 2020.

After Miyazaki returned to Japan, he was greeted by the press. A conference was held where he said a few words regarding his experience. million) Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し , Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, literally translated as "Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away"), is the 12th animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli, and premiered in theaters in Japan on July 20, 2001. The film was made to please the ten-year-old daughter of Hayao Miyazaki's personal friend, director Seiji Okuda. Okuda's daughter even became the model for the film's protagonist, Chihiro. During the film's planning phase, Miyazaki gathered the daughters of Ghibli's staff in a mountain hut in Shinano Province to hold a training seminar. His experience led him to wanting to make a film for them, since he had never made a movie for girls at the age of 10.

Some suggest that the film is an allegory on the progression from childhood to maturity, and the risk of losing one's nature in the process. The theme of a character being lost inside a (fictional/different) world if they forget their real name is a common folk theme. True names having magic power are a staple of folks tales such as Rumplestilskin or Earthsea. Similarly, Chihiro and Haku stay under Yubaba's control forever if they forget their real names and consequently their real identities. Hayao Miyazaki sought authenticity in the representation of the bathhouse, admitting to having been inspired by the buildings at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, which was near the studio where he liked to walk. Its park indeed offers a reconstruction of the Japanese capital, between the 17th and the beginning of the 20th century. For Miyazaki, to represent this place is to plunge the Japanese viewer into a certain nostalgia. Ghibli staff conducted location scouting at this park on March 17, 2000. The public bathhouse Kodakara-yu was Miyazaki's favorite exhibit, and many of its details were used as reference when designing the bathhouse in the film. The main building at Dōgo Onsen in Matsuyama was also referenced, following a past Ghibli company trip. The interiors of Meguro Gajoen and the ceilings of Nijō Castle was used as reference. Kamajī's workplace was based on the Takei Sansho-do (stationery store) at the Edo-Tokyo Museum. Meanwhile, the film's bathhouse's girl's dormitories was based on the Japanese garment factories from the 1950s. The National Sanatorium Tama Zenshōen's multi-tenant room also served as inspiration.Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Video Game) • Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu • Jade Cocoon 2 • Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color • Ni no Kuni (Series) • Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn • Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch • Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

Flying City Plan • Shiki-Jitsu ( Studio Kajino) • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence • Nasu: Summer in Andalusia • Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase • Portable Airport • Red Crow and the Ghost Ship • Space Station No. 9 • The Red Turtle He later elaborated, "There are No-Faces all around us. Because there's only a paper-thin difference between evil spirits and gods. And on top of that, this film is set in Aburaya, a bathhouse. So once you open the doors, all sorts of things come in." However, when asked if No-Face represented the youth today, he explained, "I didn't make this film with that in mind. No-Face is just a name and a mask, and other than that we don't really know what he's thinking or what he wants to do. We just named him No-Face because his expression never changes; that's all. But I do think there are people like him everywhere, people who want to glom on to someone but have no sense of self." [4] Design [ ] Eiko Kadono (Author) • Tokiko Kato (Singer) • John Lasseter (Director) • Rieko Nakagawa (Author) • Tatsuo Hori (Author) • Mamoru Hosoda (Director) • Yoshie Hotta (Author) • Yōichi Kotabe (Senior Animator) • Naohisa Inoue (Artist) • Keisuke Miyazaki (Son) • Kenji Miyazawa (Author) • Yasuji Mori (Animation Director) • Hideo Ogata (Animage Editor) • Osamu Sagawa (Friend) • Ryōtarō Shiba (Author) • Mamiko Suzuki (Toshio Suzuki's Daughter) • Mamoru Oshii (Director) • Yasuo Ōtsuka (Director)Original: Akio Nakamura ( Kashira), Shigeru Wakita, Shirô Saitô, Michiko Yamamoto, Keiko Tsukamoto, Shinji Tokumaru, Kaori Yamagata, Yayoi Kazuki, Masahiro Asano, Kazutaka Hayashida, Ikuko Yamamoto, Mina Meguro, Tetsurô Ishibashi, Katsutomo Shîbara, Shinobu Katabuchi, Noriko Kitou, Naoto Kaji, Yoshitaka Sukegawa, Aki Tachikawa, Noriko Yamada, Katsuhisa Matsuo, Masayuki Kizu, Yôko Ôno, Sachie Azuma, Shigeyuki Satô, Mayumi Sako, Sonoko Soeda, Akiko Tomihira, Minako Masuda, Orika Ono, Rina Yamada, Miwa Takachi, Hiromi Takeuchi, Makiko Oku At the same time, Spirited Away's production was facing serious delays. Several new animation directors were hired, although Toshio Suzuki was worried the film would not meet its deadline. New animators were given at least "one cut per person in a week" to complete. Only half of the animation cuts were made in-house at Ghibli, while the rest was outsourced. Veteran animator Kenichi Konishi was asked to find any available animator he could hire for support the production.

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 Yubaba has many similarities to the Coachman from the 1940 film Pinocchio, in the sense that she mutates humans into pigs in a similar way that the boys of Pleasure Island were mutated into donkeys. Upon gaining employment at the bathhouse, Yubaba's seizure of Chihiro's true name symbolically kills the child, [38] who must then assume adulthood. She then undergoes a rite of passage according to the monomyth format; to recover continuity with her past, Chihiro must create a new identity. [38] Traditional Japanese culture [ edit ] In my grandparents' time, it was believed that kami existed everywhere– in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything. [8]

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Absorbing: He can eat anything, whether it's food or spirits. This may be an extension of his mimicry ability. As for the depiction of the spirits, Miyazaki mentions how Japanese gods are quite modest in design. "Tenjin has been turned into a god for those who pray for success in their school exams, and I'm sure it's tough for him because he doesn't even understand English. [laughs]" Other traditional Japanese gods have been lumped in with Buddhism and made into wooden idols of worship, but that wasn't what they originally were. What Miyazaki is trying to say is that Japanese spirits "originally never had a form. And if people give them form without being careful, they start looking like yokai. But even that's vague since all the yokai in the famous scroll painting Hyakki yagyozu were all given forms after the fact. So in principle, I didn't want to depict my Japanese spirits to be based on any existing images. But one exception is the masks at Kasuga Taisha shrine. When I saw photos of them, they were too fascinating not to use as reference. When I gave form to the spirits, I didn't want them to look like deities. So if you ask my why I depicted the spirits the way I did in the film, it's because I think Japanese gods are probably quite exhausted. So it made sense to me that they would want to come to a bathhouse and stay two nights and three days. Sort of like the Shimotsuki festival. Sunada, Mami (Director) (16 November 2013). 夢と狂気の王国[ The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness] (Documentary) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Studio Ghibli. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014 . Retrieved 12 July 2014. Interview with Toshio Suzuki As a monstrous, out-of-control being, No-Face exhibits all the negative traits of those he had swallowed (most significantly, Aogaeru), becoming a brash, arrogant, loud, and selfish creature whose obsession with Chihiro proved troubling for everyone around it. Spirited Away tells the story of Chihiro Ogino (Hiiragi), a ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters the world of kami (spirits of Japanese Shinto folklore). [8] After her parents are turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba (Natsuki), Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba's bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and return to the human world.