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Spirited Away sold 5.5 million 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. [78] The movie was released on Blu-ray by Walt Disney Studios Japan on 14 July 2014, and DVD was also reissued on the same day with a new HD master, alongside several other Studio ...
Susuwatari (Japanese: ススワタリ, 煤渡り; "wandering soot"), also called Makkuro kurosuke (まっくろくろすけ; "makkuro" meaning "pitch black", "kuro" meaning "black" and "-suke" being a common ending for male names), is the name of a fictitious sprite that was devised by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, known from the famous anime-productions My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and ...
The animated feature-length film Spirited Away had its premiere on July 20, 2001. In October that same year the Ghibli Museum was opened. In 2002 director Hiroyuki Morita’s The Cat Returns and Ghiblies episode 2, directed by Yoshiyuki Momose, had their theatrical release. In 2003 Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Spirited Away – still fresh and affecting, 23 years on –was never crying out for a stage adaptation.In hewing so closely to the original text, this production does little to augment the ideas ...
Among the studio's highest-grossing films are Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). [6] Studio Ghibli was founded on June 15, 1985, by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, after acquiring Topcraft's assets.
In the novel and manga Missing / Spirited Away by Gakuto Coda, the main character Utsume Kyoichi goes missing for a second time, in the company of his new spirit girlfriend Ayame. In the manga Rin-ne by Rumiko Takahashi , heroine Sakura Mamiya disappeared for a week after being taken away by spirits, and she was brought back to this world by ...
Makiko Futaki (二木真希子 Futaki Makiko; June 19, 1958 – May 13, 2016) was a Japanese animator best known for her contributions to Studio Ghibli on films such as My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Spirited Away (2001).
Spirited Away was released on July 20, 2001; it received critical acclaim, and is considered among the greatest films of the 2000s. [44] The film was also commercially successful, earning ¥30.4 billion (US$289.1 million) at the box office. [45] It became the highest-grossing film in Japan, [46] a record it maintained for almost 20 years. [b]