Spirited Away

A scene from Spirited Away

Spirited Away is the first anime film to win an academy award.This film was made without any script. Spirited away is the first studio ghibli movie i watched. And since then i kept on rewatching it and never gets bored. It makes me sad that here is no sequel to this...Hayao, why do you have to retire without making one??

Spirited Away tells the story of Chihiro. 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino's family stumbles upon a deserted theme park. Intrigued, the family investigates the park, though unbeknown to them, it is secretly inhabited by spirits who sleep by day and appear at night. When Chihiro's mother and father eat food from a restaurant in the street, angry spirits turns them into pigs. Furthermore, a wide sea has appeared between the spirit world and the human one, trapping Chihiro, the sole human, in a land of spirits. Luckily for her though, a mysterious boy named Haku appears, claiming to know her from the past. Under his instructions, Chihiro secures a job in the bathhouse where Haku works. With only her courage and some new found friends to aid her, Chihiro embarks on a journey to turn her parents back to their original forms and return home. In this movie everything just appears to meet up consummately: the story is interesting, each character is more unique than the past one, the artwork is breathtaking and on top of all of that you also get a soundtrack that is beautiful in its simplicity.

Spirited Away is the highest grossing movie in Japanese history and made Studio Ghibli as famous abroad as it is in Japan. If you haven’t watched Spirited Away yet, it is definitely time to do that.