2001 · animation · fantasy
Spirited Away
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki2h 5m2001
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Our read: Spirited Away (2001) reads as a cosy, steady, surreal animation · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, steady, gentle animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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