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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 ...
The first anime and traditionally animated winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Spirited Away at the 75th Academy Awards. They would later win this award for a second time with The Boy and the Heron at the 96th Academy Awards, marking the second time a traditionally animated film won the award.
Hayao Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, in the town Akebono-cho in Hongō, Tokyo City, Empire of Japan, the second of four sons. [1] [2] [3] [note 1] His father, Katsuji Miyazaki (born 1915), [1] was the director of Miyazaki Airplane, his brother's company, [5] which manufactured rudders for fighter planes during World War II. [4]
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]
Set in 1999, “Drive-Away Dolls” is a lark, a curio, a caper that feels like Coen brothers lite — which is saying something, since the Coens, in the 18 films they made together over 35 years ...
Spirited Away Original Soundtrack (千と千尋の神隠し サウンドトラック, " Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi Saundotorakku ", lit. 'Spirited Away Soundtrack') is the soundtrack to the film released on 11 July 2001 by Studio Ghibli Records and published by Tokuma Japan Communications. It featured 20 of Hisaishi's score from the film ...
Millennium Actress received the Grand Prize in the Japan Agency of Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival, [28] tying with Spirited Away. Additionally, it won the awards of Best Animation Film and Fantasia Ground-Breaker at the 2001 Fantasia Film Festival. It was awarded the Feature Film Award at the 8th Animation Kobe.
Ethan Coen's comedy 'Drive-Away Dolls' includes a cameo from Miley Cyrus as Tiffany Plastercaster, inspired by the real-life Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton.