Spirited Away is a Japanese anime movie by Hayao Miyazaki and produced under Studio Ghibli. The film was first released in July of 2001, and became the most successful film in Japanese history, grossing over $274 million dollars worldwide. The film was so successful, it even overtook Titanic (top grossing film at the time) and because the highest-grossing film in Japanese history with a total of $229,607,878. (Johnson, G. A.)
The story follows a 10 year old girl named Chihiro who, upon moving to a new neighbourhood, gets lost in a spirit world. She must figure out how to get back to the world she once knew, along with saving her parents who have been transformed into pigs as a consequence of eating food that was meant for the spirits. She discovers a bathhouse that the spirits go to, and is approached by a young apprentice named Haku that she must ask the boiler man, Kamaji, for a job. Although Kamaji turns her away, he leaves her with the advice to ask the witch Yubaba for a job, the witch who also owns the bathhouse and is Haku’s master.
Yubaba grants her permission to stay on the terms of signing a contract that allows Yubaba to take Chihiro’s name, take three characters from it, the only character left is “sen” as well as “chi” (as in Chihiro), and thus her new name is Sen. (Abe, N.) She befriends Haku and through helping her find her way around, she finds out Haku is really a dragon. This complicates their relationship as dragon spirits are not allowed to talk or have contact with humans. Through determined actions, Chihiro eventually frees her parents from the spirit world and the film ends.
Spirited away is composed of three main genres, which makes it easier to market to various audiences. Firstly, it is an adventure fi...
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...ve because of its high labor costs. Just as with other labor-intensive industries, technology seemed an answer to the rising costs of production.” (Spirited Away: The Death of an Artform.)
With determination through hardships, anyone can attain their goals. Whether it’s Chihiro saving herself and her family from the Spirit World, or Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli paying close attention to detail and thus staying late night after night to finish an animated film. At the end of the film, Chihiro’s parents are waiting for her and are slightly upset that she had wandered off, as they do not remember anything. They walk back to their car, which seems to have been abandoned for a long while. As they drive away, Chihiro’s dad says, “...A new home and a new school-- it’s a bit scary.” Chihiro, having matured since the beginning of the film, replies, “I think I can handle it.”
This chapter is about the child that Takiko’s mother has. She has the baby with Goro. This is when Takiko thinks about her future and she wants to leave the farm and go on into the city and start a new life there.
After chiyo finally accepted her fate, she worked really hard to become a geisha. She worked so hard that she broke records and as a result she was adopted into the okiya. Pumpkin, another girl who lived in the okiya was supposed to be adopted instead of Chiyo. When Chiyo broke the record for the highest cost of her mizuage, or virginity, Mother pushed aside Pumpkin and congratulated Chiyo. Chiyo felt bad for her but since they were friends, she thought Pumpkin would understand. Much later, to her surprise, she found that Pumpkin was still bitter and jealous about it. Chiyo’s view on it was the fact that she had worked hard for that honor and she had earned it. Pumkin felt that she deserved to be adopted since she had become a geisha first and she was already in the process of being adopted. Their difference of opinion on that subject drew a wedge between them that was never removed.
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The main character is liked, but not by all the characters. She realizes her flaws when she has this reality check with Mr.Kapsi because she thought an affair would lead to ending her misery with her unhappy
...ing her life, he is able to control something and finally rid himself of some of his torments.
“Who is you, Chiron?” This question sets the stage for the entire movie. We follow a young boy named Chiron through adolescence to adulthood within 110 minutes of film. We watch him progress through life while he tries to erase or bury his old younger self. We first meet Chiron, also known as little, while he is running from a group of boys from his school trying to beat him up. He runs into a drug hole and is met by a man named Juan who “fosters” Chiron and soon becomes his father figure. As we watch Chiron grow we observe that he is a young boy who is struggling with his identity in environment that doesn't understand him. He discovers that he fills more at ease to talk to a man named Juan, who slowly raised him, because he is missing a father
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Her mom hung up, those were the last three words Destiny would ever hear her mom say. She tossed and turned the rest of the night. Kisha came into the room to wake up Destiny. She had overslept, which made her and Kisha miss school. Kisha could see the pain in Destiny’s eyes. She knew she had to tell why their mom wouldn’t be coming home and that she moving to New York. Destiny told Kisha the horrible news. They both wept and held each other until they both fell asleep.
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...ceptance to her roots and traditions grew more as she learned. This brings a new perspective in Lisa’s life and with this last piece of recognition she is able to see a clear image of herself as a new person that she wants to see.
Walt Disney Films are known to be as an incredible and outstanding fantasy stories producer. It created more than a hundred of films. Majority of what has been produced rely on fictional stories. The films that were released used animation to capture children’s interest and musically performed as well. Walt Disney produced fantasy stories like The Little Mermaid 1989; Sleeping Beauty 1959; Beauty and the Beast 1991; Cinderella 1950 and more. The tales most often than not were always about the life of a princess in search of her prince charming.
...usion, although both of these women are able to come to terms with their pasts and they both use writing as a way to come to terms with the past, the peace that each of them comes to is very different. Cellei’s peace is of a spiritual nature. She has to let go and forgive those who wronged her in order to become the strong independent woman she wants to be. She develops a relationship with God that makes feel at peace with her life. Kingston discovers her voice when she comes to terms with her heritage and the stories that her mother was telling her. She realizes that her mother was trying to help her to develop a voice, not hold her down. Once she understands the importance of these stories she comes to the understanding that she doesn’t have to adhere to the old Chinese ways and can express herself. Her peace is that of accepting her mother and her heritage.
Miyazaki’s strong support for Japanese culture often becomes prominent in the film. Once chihiro has learned that her parents are pigs, she believes that she is dreaming. “Go away. Go away. Disappear…” she tells herself, only to find that she is literally disappearing. This is because she has not yet eaten food from the realm she is in. Here she meets Haku, a young apprentice of the bathhouse. He feeds her food, and she begins to reappear. This scene reflects old Japanese mythological stories that hold the belief that eating food from another realm will keep you ...
Historically though, the impact of technology has been to increase productivity in specific areas and in the long-term, “release” workers thereby, creating opportunities for work expansion in other areas (Mokyr 1990, p.34). The early 19th Century was marked by a rapid increase in employment on this basis: machinery transformed many workers from craftsmen to machine minders and although numbers fell relative to output – work was replaced by employment in factories (Stewart 1996, p.13).