From the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke), this Academy Award winner (Best Animated Film) follows the fanciful adventures of a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she myst call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world.
I apologise, we feel bad, but there's no trailer available. ~Ed.
One of a kind. The detail to sound and atmosphere are amazing. The music score is superb and the world created utterly compelling. Rent it.
The fact that Miyazaki and his team hand-draw the images before they're digitally coloured and animated gives them an artistry that has been woefully lacking from so many recent American features.
Spirited dazzles and entertains like no other movie this year. It also comes to a satisfying conclusion and never once seems to take shortcuts. Miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers.
Prepare to be astonished by Spirited Away.
The towering, lost dreaminess at the heart of the film is an unmistakable obsession of this director.
An out-and-out charmer. It's almost impossible to do justice in words either to the visual richness of the movie, which melanges traditional Japanese clothes and architecture with both Victorian and modern-day artifacts, or to the character-filled storyline, with human figures, harpies and grotesque creatures.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 1st Feb 2001.
Release date: February 1st 2001.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
