Spirited Away
“The tunnel led Chihiro to a mysterious town.”
千と千尋の神隠し · 2001 | PG | 125 min | Animation · Family · Fantasy
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Synopsis
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Class DivideThemeThe bathhouse runs on contracts and names: Chihiro signs hers away to earn the right to stay, and the spirits soaking upstairs are served by a workforce that must keep proving it is useful.
- Parents and ChildrenThemeThe parents are turned into pigs within ten minutes and are no use for the rest; what follows is a study of what a child does once the adults have disqualified themselves.
- Food as CharacterMotifEating is the moral test, run in both directions: the parents gorge and stop being human, while Chihiro is kept human by a rice ball she cries through.
- Stairs and LevelsMotifThe bathhouse is read vertically — boiler room, guest floors, Yubaba's suite at the top — and Chihiro's standing at any moment is legible from the level she is on.
Box office · USD, worldwide
×14.5return on budget
Budget
$19.0M
Revenue
$274.9M
