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Spirited Away sold 5.5 million home video units in Japan by 2007, [78] and holds the record for most home video copies sold of all time in the country as of 2014. [79] The movie was released on Blu-ray by Walt Disney Studios Japan on 14 July 2014, and DVD was also reissued on the same day with a new HD master, alongside several other Studio ...
In English, to "spirit away" means to remove without anyone's noticing. In Japanese folklore , spiriting away ( Japanese : Kamikakushi ( 神隠し ), lit. ' hidden by kami ' ) refers to the mysterious disappearance or death of a person, after they had angered the spirits ( kami ).
Susuwatari (Japanese: ススワタリ, 煤渡り; "wandering soot"), also called Makkuro kurosuke (まっくろくろすけ; "makkuro" meaning "pitch black", "kuro" meaning "black" and "-suke" being a common ending for male names), is the name of a fictitious sprite that was devised by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, known from the famous anime-productions My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and ...
Spirited Away (2001) Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s films delight kids with their bright colours, imaginative characters and plucky heroines (usually).
There are moments where you feel “Spirited Away” wants to be more like the latter. But for all the flair of the vast design team delivering “wow” moments, for much of the three-hour show ...
Spirited Away – still fresh and affecting, 23 years on –was never crying out for a stage adaptation. In hewing so closely to the original text, this production does little to augment the ideas ...
Among the studio's highest-grossing films are Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). [6] Studio Ghibli was founded on June 15, 1985, by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, after acquiring Topcraft's assets.
Spirited Away was released on July 20, 2001; it received critical acclaim, and is considered among the greatest films of the 2000s. [44] The film was also commercially successful, earning ¥30.4 billion (US$289.1 million) at the box office. [45] It became the highest-grossing film in Japan, [46] a record it maintained for almost 20 years. [b]