The Bathhouse staff encounter the Stink SpiritĬhihiro helps free a river spirit from his sludgy form. It will be adapted into a stage play by John Caird, starring Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi and produced by Toho and will debut in 2022. It won first place in the Studio Ghibli general poll held in 2016, and was re-screened in five movie theaters around Japan for seven days from September 10 to 16, 2016. Due to his efforts in promoting the film in North America, John Lasseter, one of the founding fathers of Pixar, became the executive producer of the English dub. It received multiple international awards, including the Golden Bear Award at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival and the second Oscar ever awarded for Best Animated Feature, the first anime film to win an Academy Award, and the only winner of that award to win among five nominees. The film earned a massive ¥31,680 billion in Japan, a record only beaten by Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train in 2020. 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. 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.

Okuda's daughter even became the model for the film's protagonist, Chihiro.

The film was made to please the ten-year-old daughter of Hayao Miyazaki's personal friend, director Seiji Okuda. She is forced to work at a bathhouse following her parents being turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba. The story is about the adventures of a young ten-year-old girl named Chihiro as she wanders into the world of the gods and spirits. ($289.1 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.

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