Paper On Spirited Away

Ever heard of Spirited Away? Well if not it’s a shame since people of all ages enjoyed it. Spirited Away is about a ten year old girl who gets lost in the spirit world and has to change her parents back into humans again. But even though people loved it no one knew about the director, the production it went through, and how successful it really was, since it wasn’t made in the U.S.A.

The director's’ name was Hayao Miyazaki. Also known as the Walt Disney of Japan even though he hates that nickname. But not only did he direct the movie but he also wrote and did the storyboard for the film. When he made a trip over to Disney’s headquarters to present how they animate they gave Disney’s employes some ideas. Miyazaki gave one of the writers the

When Spirited Away was brought over to America they had to add some narration from the characters because the children might not know what some of the buildings are. Like when Chihiro went to the bathhouse in the American version they made her say “It’s a bathhouse.” because kids didn’t know too much about japanese culture. A little fact about the bathhouse is that it exist in real life it can be found in Miyazaki’s home town. When Chihiro is in the bathhouse a mud spirit comes and starts to tear up the place because it’s angry about something. When they were able to get someone out of the mud spirit he told them there was a bike in it, so they got a rope and pulled it out. This happened to Miyazaki but they weren’t pulling a bike out of a mud spirit they were pulling it out of a river because Miyazaki cleaned up a river once. In the bathhouse part of the movie there is a girl called Lin who is like Chihiro’s mentor while she is there. Lin had a really boyish personality so Miyazaki would always flatten her chest but one of the writers thought that he should leave them like that so her two traits would be fighting against each other. All of the characters names describe who they are. In the scene where Chihiro’s Mom is eating