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	Amazon.com: Spirited Away: DVD: Hayao Miyazaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After she feeds him some of the River Spirit's medicine, No Face returns (somewhat graphically) to his former self but clearly the environment of the bath house with its overwhelming spirit of greed and indulgence (served, but never made concrete by Yubaba) is what lies at the core of Miyazaki's critique of modern society.
		Perhaps its not too far-fetched to suggest that Chihiro's travels through the spirit world and the spirits' desire to escape Yubaba's world of toil are both manifestations of the human spirit's desire for escape from the tyranny of the mundane and the material.
		Miyazaki's exteriors of the spirit world by contrast, (except for the ghostly theme-park town which was wonderfully charming and creepy at the same time) are almost all pastoral, evocative and hauntingly beautiful.
	www.amazon.com /Spirited-Away-Hayao-Miyazaki/dp/B00005JLEU (3104 words)

	Spirited Away - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spirited Away was released in Japan in July 2001, drawing an audience of around 23 million and revenues of ¥30 billion (approx.
		Spirited Away is often marketed, sold and associated with other Miyazaki movies such as Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service and, most recently, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (due in part to the latter's recent US release).
		Obake and Yokai - the spirits of the Shinto religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spirited_Away (4945 words)

	"Spirited Away" - Salon
		"Spirited Away" is a trip, in the literal, metaphorical and indeed lysergic senses of that word.
		Ostensibly, it's the story of a girl's voyage into the spirit world to rescue her parents, who, in typical idiotic adult fashion, drive on a road where they shouldn't drive, eat food they shouldn't eat and end up getting turned into pigs.
		To stay in the spirit world and thus have a chance of rescuing her parents, Chihiro must ask Yubaba for a job in the bathhouse, a request the fearsome witch cannot refuse.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2002/09/25/spirited/index.html (1076 words)

	AnimeOnDVD.com >> Disc Reviews >> Spirited Away
		A young girl is trapped in a strange new world of spirits who must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents.
		Spirited Away for me has the honor of being the first Miyazaki film that I simply have not cared for at all after seeing it.
		Visually and technically, Spirited Away is a stunningly gorgeous film that has a lot to offer, but only a few areas really ended up interesting me in the end.
	www.animeondvd.com /reviews2/disc_reviews/2046.php (2165 words)

	Spirited Away
		Spirited Away is the latest masterpiece by revered animator Hayao Miyazaki to be adapted and marketed to mainstream America.
		Spirited Away is sort of a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Shinto mythology.
		Spirited Away easily blows away anything Disney has put out in the last 15 years (although, to their credit, Disney did adapt Spirited for the US market).
	www.scifidimensions.com /Oct02/spiritedaway.htm (387 words)

	Midnight Eye review: Spirited Away (2001)
		As we've come to expect from Studio Ghibli, Spirited Away is an animation film of the highest technical calibre.
		As night sets in, spirits start appearing from everywhere, but just as she is about to panic she meets a boy called Haku, who tells her that there is both a way out of this fantastical dream world and a way to save her parents.
		Spirited Away celebrates basic and simple human virtues, which the more cynical among us may dismiss as obvious.
	www.midnighteye.com /reviews/spiraway.shtml (786 words)

	Spirited Away - film reviews
		Spirited Away really represents the great filmmaker at the peak of his powers.
		Spirited Away became Japan’s most successful movie ever, topping $200 million at the box office before acquiring endless awards and honors around the world.
		Sprited Away is a truly great fantasy, and one of the finest films of recent years.
	www.danielthomas.org /pop/film_reviews/spirited.htm (1061 words)

	CNN.com - Japan falls under blockbuster movie's spell - August 3, 2001
		Spirited Away is the story of Chihiro, who is cast adrift in a spirit world when her parents are turned into pigs
		Spirited Away, the latest movie from famed animator Hayao Miyazaki, has blown out box office records there since it opened on July 20.
		Spirited Away has broader appeal, though some say it is preachy.
	asia.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/asia/08/02/japan.spirited (807 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Spirited Away
		Spirited Away, or is a 2001 film by the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, written and directed by famed animator Hayao Miyazaki.
		They lose their way and come across a tunnel, and out of curiosity enter it, unaware that it actually provides access into a spirit world—specifically, to a spirit bathhouse, where the spirits and gods (drawn from the Shinto religious tradition) go to rest and relax.
		She was actually saved by Haku, who was the river spirit of the Kohaku River, near which Chihiro used to live but has since been drained and built upon.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Spirited_Away (4411 words)

	News about Spirited Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The radish spirit reminds me an awful lot of the big totoro in his massive immobility, for instance, and of course the little coal-dust creatures were in My Neighbor Totoro as well.
		Among many fascinating comments about Spirited Away, Miyazaki mentions that he is currently working on a couple of short films, including one with Mai from My Neighbor Totoro and her encounter with a baby cat bus.
		Spirited Away will also be shown at the Toronto Film Festival which starts on Sept. 5.
	www.randomly.com /dazazel/spiritedaway.html (1836 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Spirited Away" (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) review (2002) Hayao Miyazaki, Daveigh Chase
		But while all my fellow film critics seem to think Miyazaki's new film, "Spirited Away," is one of his very best, the fable-istic story of a little girl trapped in a parallel world of spirits left me unaffected and completely indifferent.
		Running away in fear as the village comes to life with soot-colored apparitions, Chihiro is saved by a mysterious boy named Huku.
		An interestingly imaginative but never quite engaging experience with beautiful hand-animated production values, "Spirited Away" seems to meander rather aimlessly through Chihiro's vaguely confidence-building adventures before reaching a contrived conclusion in which Chihiro is given "one more test" by Yubaba that will determine her fate.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/spiritedaway.html (830 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Spirited Away at Epinions.com
		Of course that isn’t to say that Yubaba the witch is a bad guy (or hag) and that she is going to be burn at the stake by the end of the movie.
		All the things she does is mainly business, Chiro and her parents screwed things up around the bath house so she turn the parents into pigs because of it, she deems it has doing Chiro a favor by signing her on and not during her into a pig.
		Spirited Away was number 1 in the Jappanse box office in 2001, toppling that of Titantic.
	www.epinions.com /content_102532746884 (1856 words)

	Spirited Away
		Directed by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, SPIRITED AWAY is the tale of Chihiro (voiced by Daveigh Chase), a young girl who is taken down an unusual road by her parents while moving to a new home in an unfamiliar town.
		Spirited Away has the quality of a dream: It takes you places so foreign and fantastic you have no option but to yield completely to it and be spirited along.
		At its heart and most importantly, Spirited Away concerns a little girl learning to honour her friends and her family by valuing herself.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/spirited_away (1066 words)

	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Spiriting Away of Sen and Chihiro (informal literal English title)
		The cleansing of the river spirit is based on a real-life incident in Miyazaki's life in which he participated in the cleaning of a river, removing, among other things, a bicycle.
		Spirited Away is one of the most perfect movies I have ever seen.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0245429 (567 words)

	BBC - collective - spirited away
		Spirited Away, his most recent feature, finally gets a UK release this autumn, over two years after it was released in Japan.
		However, unlike her Western equivalents, Chihiro must toil in a bathhouse that caters for spirits and gods if she's to save her parents, who’ve been transformed into pigs, and win her freedom.
		Following its July 2001 home territory release, Spirited Away went on to become the most commercially successful film ever in Japan, beating reigning box office champ, Titanic.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A1171667 (546 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Spirited Away (xhtml)
		"Spirited Away" is told through the eyes of Chihiro (voice by Daveigh Chase), a 10-year-old girl, and is more personal, less epic, than "Princess Mononoke." As the story opens, she's on a trip with her parents, and her father unwisely takes the family to explore a mysterious tunnel in the woods.
		He is the spirit of the river, and his body has absorbed the junk, waste and sludge that has been thrown into it over the years.
		Apart from the stories and dialogue, "Spirited Away" is a pleasure to regard just for itself.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020920/REVIEWS/209200306/1023 (729 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Spirited Away' turns heads in U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The lead character of Spirited Away, a 10-year-old girl, is apathetic about her life as she prepares to move to a new home and new school.
		But soon she is spirited off on an adventure, during which she discovers an enchanted world and experiences newfound excitement and a sense of purpose.
		Already one of the most successful movies in Japanese history, Spirited Away was the first animated film to win the best-picture award at the Berlin Film Festival.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2002-09-19-spirited-away_x.htm (385 words)

	Spirited Away (2002)
		To many aficianados — including director John Lasseter of the Toy Story movies, who oversaw the preparation of Spirited Away for its American theatrical release — Miyazaki is possibly the greatest animation filmmaker of all time.
		The most important survival tactic he give her is to ask for work in the spirit world’s bath house, where the spirits come to "replenish themselves." As long as she persists in asking for work, Haku assures Chihiro, no one will harm her, though the work may be hard.
		Myths and fairy tales often contain rules that must be followed for safety’s sake: Don’t touch the walls in the enchanted castle; avert your eyes from the bathing goddess; don’t answer the knock of a stranger.
	www.decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1849 (920 words)

	Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki - Anime
		Released in 2001, Spirited Away has become an instant classic in animation, bringing the anime tradition to a much wider audience.
		I won't give away the ending section, but while much of the middle of the movie sung with innovations and interesting, fascinating twists, at the end it dissoved back down into just about every other coming-of-age story written, and some extremely tired cliches finish the movie off.
		So in the end, while other aspects of the movie were lovely but not excellent, I loved Spirited Away for those little spots of laughter in the story.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art10090.asp (916 words)

	theLogBook.com Movie Reviews - Spirited Away
		However, it was popular enough that when Disney announced that it was releasing the film on DVD without the original Japanese audio track, a huge protest caused Disney to rethink the plans and include the Japanese audio track with both literal English subtitles as well as the words to the Neil Gaiman-adapted script.
		Spirited Away, however, is more of a family film, and was the inspired by a group of ten-year-old girls who visited Studio Ghibli, and Miyazaki realizing that the studio never did a film targeted for them.
		Spirited Away was presented with the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.
	www.thelogbook.com /movies/2002/a.htm (1301 words)

	jonvon.net - spirited away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Spirited Away may be the most amazing movie i've ever seen.
		I was similarly blown away by Spirited Away.
		the thing that blows me away is how detailed and interesting the story is. so many different characters, you really get a sense that you have happened upon an entire world.
	jonvon.net /jonvon/blog/blog.nsf/dx/spirited-away.htm (480 words)

	Spirited Away (2001) A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		A fabulous ghost-infested adventure full of action, suspense, bizarre creatures, and compelling human characters, it is the pinnacle of animated fantasy and depicts the transformation of a sullen little girl into a powerful being.
		Chihiro finds herself in a world filled with these spirits -- actually she is enslaved as a worker in a bathhouse for spirits.
		She treats even the most disgusting spirit with kindness, and discovers it isn't as disgusting as everyone thought.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /spirited_away.htm (1071 words)

	Amazon.ca: Spirited Away: DVD: Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		'Spirited Away' is such a rare treat in today's world with little new been done with conventional cartoons in the world of cinema.
		'Spirited Away' is lavishly beautiful too the eye, yet is also a strongly structured tale that has the heart missing out of most modern-day animation making this movie really stand out from the crowd and a definite must-see.
		'Spirited Away' is absolutely spellbinding throughout and worthy of all the praise it has, and will receive in the present and near future.
	www.amazon.ca /Spirited-Away-Miyazaki-s/dp/B00005JLEU (1744 words)

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		So, she must find her name, save her parents, and help a mysterious boy and crazed spirit while in the disguise of a simple washing girl, with the supposed purpose of replenishing the spirts.
		Spirited Away is, in my opinion, Miyazaki's best film yet.
		But I think Spirited Away is his best movie yet because of the creativity, amazing artwork, wonderful characters (who else thinks Yubaba's nose is hilarious?) and fantastic storytelling techniques that Miyazaki uses.
	fish.netexpress.net /view/B00005JLEU (643 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Spirited Away
		As such, the release of Spirited Away could only be seen as a great thing, since it was such a wholly unexpected venture.
		Thankfully though, Spirited Away is a fantastic film, even if it doesn’t quite live up to the majesty of Miyazaki’s Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro (my favorite animated film of all time).
		Set in an alternate universe that hides within an abandoned amusement park, Spirited Away stars Chihiro, a ten year old girl who must infiltrate a “health spa for the gods” in search of a cure for her parents, who were turned into pigs after eating food intended for the spa's patrons.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2001/spiritedaway.htm (689 words)

	SPIRITED AWAY (PG): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR22111 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		SPIRITED AWAY (PG) -- This is not an Aesop's fable with a moral to the story.
		Spirited Away is praised for its environmentalism heart.
		For example, Okutaresama the river spirit, comes as a smelly, slimy sludge slug and is cleaned up and returned to his river.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/spiritedaway.htm (2565 words)

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