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Spirited Away (2001, Jp./US)
(aka Sen to Chihiro No Kamikakushi)
In director Hayao Miyazaki's classic, best-known anime and
the highest-grossing film in Japanese box-office history at the time:
- the characters and storyline of this Alice-in-Wonderland-like
(and Wizard of Oz) coming-of-age tale for unhappy 10 year-old,
pony-tailed Japanese schoolgirl Chihiro (voice of Daveigh Chase),
as she entered a spirit-haunted, abandoned amusement park with
her parents - when suddenly her father and mother (voices of Michael
Chiklis and Lauren Holly) were turned into pigs after eating food
in a deserted cafe
- also the imaginative characters she encountered in
a nocturnal bath-house/spa for spirits as she struggled to save her
parents:
- greedy, cranky, large-headed twin sister/matron Yubaba (voice of
Suzanne Pleshette) who ran the bathhouse and could morph into a flying
crow
- young boy Master Haku (voice of Jason Marsden) - also seen as a flying
dragon
- "The Boiler Man" with six arms, named Kamajii (voice
of David Ogden Stiers)
- a white-masked, destructive, gluttonous spirit named "No Face" (voice
of Bob Bergen) who presented everyone with gold
- three green bouncing heads
- stink spirits, the Radish Spirit, a giant baby (Chihiro's doppelganger),
destructive paper birds, and more
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