Ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino becomes separated from her family in an abandoned amusement park that turns out to be a portal to the spirit world.
This celebrated masterwork from Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki was a huge hit worldwide. It marked a pivotal point both in the growing popularity of Japanese anime and the wider acceptance of animated films as significant cultural works worthy of adult attention. The film combines traditional Japanese supernaturalism with European strains of fantasy, from Homer through Lewis Carroll to the Surrealists, and offers a wry commentary on subjects as diverse as consumerism, environmentalism and architecture.
The “product of a fierce and fearless imagination whose creations are unlike anything a person has seen before.” Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“This is a film made by a master animator at the height of his powers and it is one where the quality of the animation really does set it apart from everything else around it. Nobody else was making films that looked like this or that were as inventive as this was at this time”. Rayna Denison, Time.