It represents the times when we were truly happy, living life with no worries, just enjoying everything. [111][112], In his book Otaku, Hiroki Azuma observed: "Between 2001 and 2007, the otaku forms and markets quite rapidly won social recognition in Japan," and cites Miyazaki's win at the Academy Awards for Spirited Away among his examples. Eventually, Yubaba reveals she took an oath to give work to anyone who asks for it, and gives Chichiro a working contract. Spirited Away is undoubtedly a masterpiece upon watching it. [76] Spirited Away sold 5.5million home video units in Japan by 2007,[77] and holds the record for most home video copies sold of all-time in the country as of 2014[update]. [31] In the special features of the Japanese DVD, Hayao Miyazaki explains how the song in fact inspired him to create Spirited Away. Mononokes protagonist, Ashitaka, is an exiled prince suffering from a demonic curse. Broadly speaking, Spirited Away is a movie about coming of age in a time when the world is becoming less caring. [134][135], On a limited time release from November 11 to December 18 in 2022,[136][137] the Imperial Theater performance of the play was available for rental in Japan in several streaming services such as ABEMA, Amazon Prime Video Japan, Docomo Anime Store, Fuji TV on Demand, Hulu Japan and U-NEXT.[138]. When Dwight Eisenhower gave the Atoms for Peace speech what constructive use of nuclear energy was he introducing? One thing about Ghibli movies is that there's never really one unifying moral or theme to take from the story. [38], Yubaba has many similarities to the Coachman from the 1940 film Pinocchio, in the sense that she mutates humans into pigs in a similar way that the boys of Pleasure Island were mutated into donkeys. Press J to jump to the feed. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just to entertain readers. She only lived with her grandfather and attended a rundown school in the country. Miyazaki did once say that Japanese society has become like the sex industry. Share your love of all things Ghibli! It's fair to say that most adults, at least in the first world, probably feel they lived relatively safe childhoods. Many male critics described Chihiro as a "sullen" and "spoiled" girl, and continue to describe her as such. ", As with any film that has quickly reached a cult status, you can fall down a hole of Spirited Away theories. They replied that the transformation is reflective of how people turned into pigs during Japan's bubble economy of the 1980s, which was followed by a 1991 crash, and once someone becomes a pig, he or she will gradually have the "body and soul of a pig," which "doesn't just apply to the fantasy world.".
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