Spirited Away (2001)

PG • Drama • 2h 5m

Non-Christian Worldview: Moderate

100%

Audience Score

5.0 ★

2 Ratings

Overview

While moving to a new home, a young girl wanders into a spirit realm where she must work in a supernatural bathhouse to rescue her parents from a transformative curse.

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Spirited Away is a masterwork of hand-drawn animation that explores the loss of innocence and the discovery of inner strength through the eyes of ten-year-old Chihiro. After her parents are turned into literal swine due to their gluttony in an abandoned theme park, Chihiro is forced into a contract with a formidable sorceress named Yubaba. To survive, she surrenders her name and becomes "Sen," laboring in a sprawling bathhouse that serves a dizzying array of Japanese folklore deities. The narrative serves as a poignant coming-of-age journey, where the protagonist must navigate a world of shifting identities, environmental decay, and the corrupting influence of greed to find the sacrificial love necessary to break the spells binding her and her friend Haku.