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Spirited Away sold 5.5 million home video units in Japan by 2007, [78] and holds the record for most home video copies sold of all time in the country as of 2014. [79] 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 ...
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]
In English, to "spirit away" means to remove without anyone's noticing. In Japanese folklore , spiriting away ( Japanese : Kamikakushi ( 神隠し ), lit. ' hidden by kami ' ) refers to the mysterious disappearance or death of a person, after they had angered the spirits ( kami ).
Spirited Away Original Soundtrack (千と千尋の神隠し サウンドトラック, " Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi Saundotorakku ", lit. 'Spirited Away Soundtrack') is the soundtrack to the film released on 11 July 2001 by Studio Ghibli Records and published by Tokuma Japan Communications. It featured 20 of Hisaishi's score from the film ...
In the UK, the film's Studio Ghibli anniversary release appeared on the annual lists of ten-best-selling foreign language films on home video for five consecutive years, ranking number seven in 2015, [47] number six in 2016 [48] and 2017, [49] number one in 2018, [50] and number two in 2019 below Spirited Away. [51]
The film achieved the second-largest gross for a domestic film in Japan, behind Spirited Away, and the fourth-largest ever, behind Titanic and Frozen. [64] It is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than $100 million (~¥10 billion) at the Japanese box office. [26]
A 44-year-old Big Apple transit worker who had two of his teeth knocked out by a short-on-cash subway vagrant said Sunday that he’s now afraid to return to work.
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 ...