Spirited away

Resource Information

The work Spirited away represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Spirited away

Statement of responsibility

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Tohokushinsha Film and Mitsubishi present a Tokuma Shoten, Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu ; producer, Toshio Suzuki ; written & directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Title variation

• Miyazaki's spirited away
• Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

Contributor

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Dentsū
• Mitsubishi Shōji Kabushiki Kaisha
• Nihon Terebi
• Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha
• Tohokushinsha Film (Firm)
• Tokuma Shoten
• Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Chase, Daveigh
• Chiklis, Michael, 1963-
• Hisaishi, Jō, 1950-
• Holly, Lauren
• Kagawa, Megumi
• Marsden, Jason, 1975-
• Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941-
• Pleshette, Suzanne, 1937-2008
• Seyama, Takeshi
• Stiers, David Ogden
• Suzuki, Toshio, 1948 August 19-
• Yoshida, Norobu

Subject

• Animated films
• Animated films
• Animated films -- Japan
• Anime
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films -- Japan
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Foreign films
• Foreign language films -- Japanese
• Parent and child -- Drama
• Parent and child -- Juvenile drama
• Parent and child -- Juvenile films
• Spirits -- Drama
• Spirits -- Juvenile drama
• Spirits -- Juvenile films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Animated films
• Anime
• Drama
• Feature films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Foreign films
• Foreign language films
• Juvenile drama
• Juvenile films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• jpn
• spa
• eng
• jpn
• eng

Summary

When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents. Chihiro and her parents accidentally wander into another world ruled by witches and monsters. When her parents are captured by the ruler of the world, she tricks the witch into hiring her so she can figure out how to free them

Awards note

Academy Awards, USA, 2003: Oscar - Best Animated Feature Film of the Year (Hayao Miyazaki)

Cataloging source

TEF

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Supervising animators, Masashi Ando, Kitaro Kosaka, Megumi Kagawa ; art director, Yoji Takeshige ; editor, Takeshi Seyama ; original music, Joe (Jō) Hisaishi ; English language adaptation, Cindy Davis Hewitt, Donald H. Hewitt ; production designer, Norobu Yoshida

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG; for scary moments

Language note

English, French, Japanese or Spanish dialogue; Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

English language voices: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden, Lauren Holly, David Ogden Stiers, Michael Chiklis, Tara Strong, Susan Egan, John Ratzenberger

Runtime

124

Target audience

general

Technique

animation