15 DETAILS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 'SPIRITED AWAY'

We can describe Japanese anime as a culture in itself. Due to the increase in the awareness of animes that have their own rules and understanding, anime fans are increasing day by day.

Hayao Miyazaki is known as a great author. Miyazaki directed many movies in which put the human relationship with nature and own self to the center. We can say that Spirited Away is the most known movie and his masterpiece that melts themes he worked throughout his career in a single pot. We collect the 15 detail about Spirited Away that you need to know.

Box Office Success

Spirited Away holds the title of the highest-grossing movie earning 30.80 billion yen in Japan so far. Titanic was the last owner of this title with 26.20 billion yen. The anime is also the first production that earns 200 billion dollars before come out in America.

Refer to Pixar

The lamp we saw jumping and making noise when the main character of the movie Chihiro goes to the Zeniba's home is frankly referred to as the logo of the famous animation company Pixar.

The Best Animation Oscar

The movie is the first non-English production to win an Oscar for Best

Animated Feature Film. Director Hayao Miyazaki did not attend the award ceremony. Instead of him, announcer Cameron Diaz accepted the award. Also, Spirited Away is the first anime to be nominated for an Oscar.

Source of Inspiration

After Princess Mononoke 1997, Hayao Miyazaki decided to retire. But, to see 10 years old sulky girl of his friend inspired him for Spirited Away and cause to suspend his retirement.

Scenario

Although having deep feature characters and a wide plot, there is no script written on paper. However, this is valid for all the other Miyazaki movies. When Miyazaki started working on a film and drawing, his ideas about the movie were incomplete and continued to take shape during the studies. According to Miyazaki, he does not make his movies; movies make themselves, he just follows the ideas.

Cleansing the River Spirit

Cleansing the river spirit we see in the film, Miyazaki is inspired by real life. Miyazaki has a similar experience and attended to a cleansing operation in which taking out of the river many things included a bicycle.

Final Scene

At the end of the movie, the scene where Chihiro with her parents walk through the tunnel to their car is exactly the same scene at the beginning of the movie. We just watch this scene reversely.

Haku's Medicine Scene

Miyazaki told his animators to examine the reactions of vets when they give drugs to dogs, in order for the scene where Chihiro force drugs to Haku in dragon form to be reflected on the screen in a realistic way. And in this scene, Haku's reactions are shaped by these observations.

The Similarity of Howl's Moving Castle

The colored glass we see at the beginning of Spirited Away and the colored door in another movie by Miyazaki Howl's Moving Castle, have a great resemblance. We can say that this makes a comparison with the personal journey in Spirited Away and the interdimensional journey in Howl's Moving Castle.

Closing Song

Itsumo Nando Demo (always with me) playing in the closing credits of the movie is actually made for another Miyazaki movie that he couldn't actualize. Miyazaki has listened to this song while working for Spirited Away and after decided to give place in closing.

Vocalizing

Spirited Away is the first movie that a child character vocalizing by a child. During vocalizing of Chihiro's mother speaks while eating food, actor Yasuko Sawaguchi ate chickens from Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Version With English Dubb

To the English dubb version of the movie added some dialogs that did not exist in the original. The reason is to make it more understandable some notions belong to Japanese culture, especially for the American audience.

Character Names

Character names in Spirited Away carry information directly about the character. For example; Boh means a little boy or boy; Yubaba, a bath witch; Zeniba, a money witch. Main character Chihiro's name means a thousand ghosts or quests.

Misunderstanding About the Movie

There is a general belief that the events in Spirited Away take place in a brothel. However, Miyazaki himself stated that this belief is not true. It is said that the director sees young women first as the target audience of this film, and is very uncomfortable with the expansion of the sex industry to include children.

Shinto Belief

The not looking back theme in the film

can be interpreted as a reference to the Shinto belief of escaping from the underground world of death. This belief is similar to the Greek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice. The names of the characters in the movie also contain references to the Shinto belief and gods.

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Source: Filmloverss