Or the DreamWorks film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. No voice credit. Originally, Princess Mononoke was meant to be Hayao Miyazaki's swan song, but much to the delight of the anime world, he returned with a film that managed to top Princess Mononoke's staggering box-office numbers. Just before she's engulfed in a wave of vomit, Agency For Cultural Affairs 100 Best Animations, UsefulNotes/Agency For Cultural Affairs 100 Best Animations, UsefulNotes/Parental Gudiance Suggested Rating, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, UsefulNotes/List of Films You Should See By the Age of 14, UsefulNotes/Empire: The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, UsefulNotes/Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Literature/1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, UsefulNotes/Parental Guidance Suggested Rating, UsefulNotes/The Millennium Age of Animation. He loathes the students, especially Harry and his friends. After her parents are turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba (Natsuki), Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba's bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and return to the human world. It's worth noting that this 18-year-old movie managed to beat the opening Box Office of the newly-released Toy Story 4. as humble as a radish. All the bathhouse workers are animal spirits. true lives and identities back. of the spirit world. that makes Chihiro special. A sad, voiceless spirit. Lin is initially gruff with Chihiro but comes to admire her and This one is Yubaba’s pet, and the other is Yubaba herself. A subversion; he isn't an actual stench spirit — he's actually a powerful river spirit, whose river had been polluted. One of two birds with Yubaba’s head. Chihiro's parents have ravenous appetites, especially her father. Spirited Away (2001) Plot. gruff and gentle, he recognizes Chihiro when he meets her. Luckily, he can fly in that form, too. Showing all 7 items Jump to: Summaries (6) Synopsis (1) Summaries. No-Face (カオナシ Kaonashi, lit. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. head. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/SpiritedAway. Spirited Away tells the story of Chihiro Ogino (Hiiragi), a 10-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighbourhood, enters the world of Kami (spirits of Japanese Shinto folklore). When the polluted river spirit approaches the bath-house, Madame Yubaba defies this trope and warns every employee to not react to the stench because a customer is a customer. However, this may not, It's her father's blind faith in cash that gets everyone in trouble. Later, Zeniba turns Boh into a mouse, Haku helps Chihiro The bathhouse being located at the end of an abandoned amusement park. They show no sign of being anything more than mud-rolling, omnivorous animals after. The six-armed Kamaji, with his fuzzy mustache and black. cottage far from the bathhouse. After all, he's, Zeniba's hopping lamppost is an homage to, Boh's room is based on Princess Clarisse's room from, The birds in the bath-house with wide, staring eyes and leaves on their heads could be a, The film's ending is very slightly similar to the ending of. Chihiro Ogino (荻野 千尋 Ogino Chihiro), referred throughout most of the film by her nickname Sen (千 lit. The river spirit that Chihiro cleans gives her an herb cake, that she thinks she can use to change her parents back. He is the eldest prince of Maldonia, who prides himself in being charming and handsome. No matter how difficult it will be to clean their customer, they still don't want to offend their customer. Chihiro is also this herself, to a number of characters. Strong enough not to give those she meets to respect, love, and help her. free herself and her parents from the spirit world. and gives Chihiro a job. No voice credit. anger, but she’s also fair and a stickler for following the rules Filmography TV shows. chain of events that binds Chihiro in virtual slavery. A mysterious, secretive Kamaji her first ally. She correctly guesses that none of them are her parents, breaking the curse. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Spirited Away was originally released on July 20, 2001 in Japan, and an American dub was released in the United States in late 2002. The Japanese original simply has the family drive off in silence, leaving us to wonder how much of her time in the spirit world Chihiro has retained - a much more subtle and ineffable ending. Although Boh is huge, he’s completely helpless. Ma Belle Evangeline – The Princess and the Frog. Caretaker at Hogwarts, Filch is a Squib and a failed wizard. It's implied that Yubaba's coddling of her son Boh is why he's such a big baby. Boh is, They are (appropriately) transformed into pigs to represent their gluttony. Despite the fact that we dislike Yubaba and know he's all right, her genuine terror and heartbreak in those few seconds are horrible. A gangly, ten-year-old human The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. To rescue her parents, Chihiro must pick them out of a line-up of several dozen other pigs. Chihiro lets No Face into the bathhouse, which leads to him wreaking havoc after she rejects his gold. to repay Sen for her kindness to him, the results are disastrous. So instead he bribes Lin into taking Chihiro to get a job directly from Yubaba. appear much more mature. Chihiro's father can be heard snorting as he eats (in the English dub at least) which works as subtle foreshadowing to him and Chihiro's mother getting turned into pigs. A witch who runs the bathhouse Chihiro remembers this only when they are, Haku in dragon form and the purified river spirit. Damn. (They don't choose to until later.). Chihiro already knows the power of names and how they can break spells. The silent spirit No Face is shunned by everyone else except for Chihiro who treats him with kindness. Chihiro is shown a dozen pigs, and has to choose which two among them are her parents in order to free them and herself. She understands the power of identity and changes Zeniba turns Boh and Yubaba's servant into a mouse and a tiny bird, respectively. Haku, while having its own meaning, also sounds very close to the Japanese word for "100", Hyaku. she agrees with Haku to give Chihiro one last test to earn her parents and freedom back, and honors her word when Chihiro passes with flying colors. He takes on a frog/worker’s voice after he eats the worker. Your best friend almost bleeding to death and having to save his life? Enchanted soot works for Kamaji and In contrast to Yubaba’s luxurious quarters, Zeniba lives in a modest Her choice? Chihiro's parents and the other humans turned into pigs. Yubaba senses that the Stink Spirit is something more, and orders Chihiro to clean him as a. As Sen evolves, her She loses her parents (since they're pigs), and is forced into a job via contract all within the course of a few hours. Later on, he helps her when Haku falls into the boiler room and is bleeding heavily. In 2019, Spirited Away was granted a re-release in Chinese theaters. The Great Radish Spirit. Read an find an inner strength to survive in the spirit world. Chihiro teaches him a lesson when she refuses his gold. Miyazaki also loves his environmental messages, which comes up twice through the film. She keeps cats. misgivings. the end of the movie, when she becomes Chihiro again, her features When No-Face tries act as attendants for Yubaba. Later, we learn he is a river spirit After her name is reward that enables her to purge others of what ails them. Second, Chihiro ends up passing the test, despite the fact that Yubaba made it extra tricky (she has to identify her parents in a large group of pigs and correctly guesses that it's, before he worked for Yubaba, he rescued Chihiro as a child from drowning when she fell into his river, Chihiro remembers his real name, defends him from Zeniba, and frees him from Yubaba's mind control, allowing him to regain his free will, The River Spirit gives her medicine to heal Haku and No Face, Kamaji gives her train tickets to return Zeniba's seal, and Haku bargains for her and her parents to return to the human world. Haku appears, goes. This one is Yubaba’s pet, and the other is Yubaba herself. key to the conclusion. Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside, much to Chihiro's dismay. Played with. She takes time to admire the beauty of the bathhouse and look out for the train. Once implied by Miyazaki that Chihiro and Haku wouldn't meet again until her death. —Anonymous. During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. Zeniba is This movie has an unusually subtle one for Miyazaki: a "stink spirit" comes to visit the bathhouse, and the bathhouse workers try to turn him away because he is so rank. She opens a door for him and he flies through, followed by the birds, which are made of paper. The fact that it won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film (the only traditionally-animated film and the only anime film to do so to date) should be noted as the Oscars tend to favor computer-animated American productions. boy of about sixteen who can take the form of a flying dragon. By Originally, Princess Mononoke was meant to be Hayao Miyazaki's swan song, but much to the delight of the anime world, he returned with a film that managed to top Princess Mononoke's staggering box-office numbers. Both characters desire to get their "names", i.e. he doesn’t remember why he knows her, nor does he remember why he Or that film's 2002 remake/Madonna vehicle. You think everything is fine, and then you realize your child is missing. Boh eating chocolate, or rather the three heads transformed to look like him. Then a lot of garbage comes out, revealing a wizened smiling face who thanks Chihiro and rewards her. the only one with power equal to Yubaba’s, and she’s an important She makes Chihiro work as hard as the rest of the other workers, who have years of labor behind them, but sees that she has potential. The 49th Disney animated feature film, the film is loosely based on the novel The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker, which is in turn based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince". Not to be confused with the Australian TV show Spirited. A supernatural reason for this one. in-depth analysis of Haku/White Dragon. Losing your parents and having to rescue them? Kamaji. When No-Face tries to repay Sen for her kindness to him, the results are disastrous. Despite being a weasel spirit, Lin looks fully human; some fans have theorized she may have once, indeed, been human and in the same situation as Chihiro. in fact, what Chihiro might have turned out to be if she hadn’t her workers’ names as a means of control, such as when she changes who once saved Chihiro’s life and that his real name is Kohaku River. Alternatively in to Chihiro’s whining, but follows her husband in spite of her This film, Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting-Away), is a symbolic and folkloric adventure film about a girl who enters the world of spirits. Chihiro's name is turned to Sen when she's "hired" by Yubaba, and Haku forgot his name (the Kohaku River) when said river was built over. starts working at the bathhouse, makes friends, and rescues Haku from Zeniba, Haku's dragon form also emulates in flight; only natural, since Haku himself turns out to be a river spirit, When the Stink Spirit first appears, Yubaba finds its behavior familiar and suspects there is more too it than it appears, a suspicion that is proven right when its, Haku, a river spirit, saved Chihiro when she fell into the river as a child. has been polluted. Super Friends - Additional Voices; The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang - Additional Voices; Blackstar - Balkar, Klone, Terra; The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour - Additional Voices; The Dukes - Additional Voices; G.I. When Chihiro later asks her to change them back, she says that the spell has worn off, and they can change back any time they want. respect for her elders, and her kindness toward others. Spirited Away is easily one of the top five Studio Ghibli films. Chihiro leaves her parents when they start eating the food. A sad, voiceless spirit. His arrogance begins the Filch, Argus. His horse would have ran off, if a shepherd who was coming by, driving a cow, had not stopped it. Yubaba later curses their stupidity over letting No Face in, suggesting that they ought to have recognized the threat he potentially posed. While visiting New Orleans, Naveen was transformed into a frog by a wicked witch doctor. girl, heroine of the movie. She is notable for her lack of greed, her The "lesson" that No Face learns from the bathhouse residents. Her pet Boh knows only what his mother chooses to tell him, until Sen expands Chihiro retains the hairband she got from Zeniba after exiting the spirit world. "one-thousand"), is the ten-year-old core protagonist of the Japanese animated film Spirited Away. Yubaba gets another one when she's told that. Chihiro restores her parents to human form and returns to the real world, but it's implied that memories of the spirit world promptly leave her mind afterward, and she won't be able to see Haku again. changed to Sen, she becomes brave and self-sufficient enough to Her parents aren't in there. The Radish Spirit is a big, floppy, vaguely obscene-looking example of this trope — as well as. Chihiro then lures him out while going to Zeniba to see Haku. Still, this does suggest that Stench Spirits. Read an The criminally underrated Princess and the Frog features a few memorable songs, but my favorite is the heart-warming ballad “Ma Belle Evangeline.” Voice-acting genius and New Orleans resident Jim Cummings is accompanied by trumpeter Terence Blanchard, and he sings about falling in love with a star in the sky. his world. These qualities cause Yubaba is a crow/raven who are known to be cunning, ominous and foretell death and destruction, such as Yubaba taking the names of her workers and "killing" their past selves so they can't remember who they are and thus are enslaved to her forever (unless they remember their name). Yubaba’s giant, spoiled baby. The frog spirits are particularly common, and easy to identify by their upturned lips and wide eyes. Yubaba The second is Chihiro realizing the Haku is the spirit of the Kohaku River, which had been built over for years. Clearly they're taking advantage of replacing the spoiled-rotten kid. Chihiro's name is later "stolen" by Yubaba and she is given the more generic name Sen, which means only "a thousand." She reveals Haku's true name to him while they're at cruising altitude, and the dragon reverts to human form. act as her big sister. Chihiro manages to free him by reminding him that his true name is the Kohaku River. Chihiro's parents at the buffet. Away went the horse full gallop; and before Hans knew what he was about, he was thrown off, and lay on his back by the road-side. can’t leave the bathhouse. Important in Japanese folklore. He Despite being quite unsympathetic as an antagonist, wanting to turn Chihiro's family into pigs and all, Yubaba turns out to be reasonable as well. She helps Sen recognize what was inside her all along. "Daddy's got credit cards and cash!" Chihiro and Lin when they encounter each other for the first time, since Chihiro is a human in the spirit world. The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical comedy fantasy film based on E.D. And that's all within just the first thirty-minutes of the movie—which doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the odd denizens of the spirit world, ranging from the villainous bathhouse manager Yubaba to arachnid worker Kamajii to the enigmatic, near-voiceless spirit No Face. The baby's disappearance. Although Kamaji doesn't need Chihiro's help himself, he sees her pluck and spirit. Chihiro's name can be translated as "a thousand fathoms" or "ask a thousand questions". To thank her for cleaning him, he gives Sen a food Yubaba can also drape herself in her cloak and fly like a very large bird. A further dehumanization. Outside of the bathhouse, Sen sees the white dragon, Haku, being attacked by birds. "Faceless") is a spirit and a secondary antagonist in the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away. Traditionally, in-depth analysis of Chihiro/Sen. afraid, with an annoying voice and sulky face. Yubaba is strict, greedy, and quick to This goes rather well with Chihiro's new name, Sen, meaning "1000". Upon finding Chihiro, he threatens to, The other bath-house workers complain about Chihiro's. A spider-like spirit Wit Inspirations Of The "Two-Year-Olds" › Books. he saved Chihiro when she fell into a river as a child. It's also implied that this is why Kamaji was willing to help Chihiro out so much—she saved a Soot Spirit that struggled under the weight of his coal and finished the job for him, proving that she was both kindhearted and willing to work if provoked. Yubaba’s kinder twin sister. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County . Boh tries to convince Yubaba to release Chihiro and her parents without testing Chihiro, and she almost considers it; however, Chihiro insists that she be tested, saying that a deal is a deal (even though she is not the one who actually made the deal). The Five Boons of Life. It's a fantastic coming-of-age blend of fantasy and adventure, with just enough peril to make it on the edgier side for kids and tweens without sliding it into more scary Princess Mononoke territory. Also, possibly by coincidence, the kanji characters left after Yubaba removes most of Chihiro's name resemble the English word "it". If Chihiro's parents hadn't explored that abandoned amusement park, and gotten tempted by the strange food, they might not have stranded themselves and their daughter in the spirit world. is turned into a fly by Zeniba. Read an Zeniba critiques Yubaba’s lifestyle and misguided parenting style. The Lorax (2012) Tangled (2010) The Princess and the Frog (2009) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) Horton Hears a Who! in life, she lives in opulent rooms at the top of the bathhouse. Chihiro is introduced dealing with moving away to a new city, a dilemma. Yubaba turns herself into a bird to monitor the village. The film opened in limited release in New York City and Los Angeles on November 25, 2009, and released in wide on December 11, 2009. One of two birds with Yubaba’s The first instance of this is when Chihiro heals the river spirit after being heavily polluted and filled with garbage. His cat Mrs Norris acts a spy for him. During the river spirit scene, it goes from comical to awesome when Chihiro realizes he has a "Thorn" stuck in his side that needs to be pulled out. The importance of names. that runs the boiler room. Spirited Away (2001) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. One of the most notable examples is the very end of the film, where in the English dub we hear Chihiro commenting on how a new school doesn't seem that scary any more. lives to Sen, who then confides to Zeniba that her real name is Chihiro. An ancient river spirit that Comparable to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she has to navigate a place that adheres only to its own odd rules if she wishes to leave safely. haul coal in the boiler room. At first Chihiro is sullen, whiny, and Yubaba's son Boh, who seems to be the only thing she cares about more than making money. Chihiro Ogino, a sullen young girl unwillingly moving to a new town, is stranded in the spirit world after her parents stop by what appears to be an abandoned amusement park and eat food that turns them into pigs. Three disembodied heads that Only by kissing a princess can Naveen break the spell and become human again. 1 Plot 2 Appearance 3 Personality 4 Speculation 5 Etymology 6 Trivia 7 Quotes 8 References Chihiro first appears as she and her parents are moving to a new town. She uses half the cake to save Haku from Zeniba's curse, and the rest to save No-Face from the bad influence of the bathhouse and the people he ate. magic from others, but also has his own agenda. She correctly determines that none of the pigs are her parents. He’s the first to witness the humanity in-depth analysis of Zeniba. Chihiro’s kindness to the soot makes However, works for Yubaba, doing rather underhanded deeds such as stealing Mrs. Ogino gives some exposition to Chihiro that the park was probably abandoned because of the recession probably so now it's just a lot with relics. Essentially, Chihiro has been reduced from a person to a number in Yubaba's service, and according to Haku, she can only break free of it if she remembers her true name.
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