Spirited Away

Director: MIYAZAKI Hayao
2001, Animation Division, 124'
Grand Prize, 5th Japan Media Arts Festival
© 2001 Nibariki-GNDDTM

The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history, Spirited Away is a wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, 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 herself and return her family to the outside world.