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"Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside, much to Chihiro's dismay. On the wsynopsis is supposed to give out a few spoilers ay to their new home, Chihiro's father makes a wrong turn and drives down a lonely one-lane road which dead-ends in front of a tunnel. Her parents decide to stop the car and explore the area. They go through the tunnel and find an abandoned amusement park on the other side, with its own little town. When her parents see a restaurant with great-smelling food but no staff, they decide to eat and pay later. However, Chihiro refuses to eat and decides to explore the theme park a bit more. She meets a boy named Haku who tells her that Chihiro and her parents are in danger, and they must leave immediately. She runs to the restaurant and finds that her parents have turned into pigs. In addition, the theme park turns out to be a town inhabited by demons, spirits, and evil gods. At the center of the town is a bathhouse where these creatures go to relax. The owner of the bathhouse is the evil witch Yubaba, who is intent on keeping all trespassers as captive workers, including Chihiro. Chihiro must rely on Haku to save her parents in hopes of returning to their world."
- Written by Zachary Harper
The reason why I would think this synopsis is very good at summarizing the plot is because it gives a long yet detailed explanation of what the film is about. The synopsis is supposed to give out a few spoilers on what the film is about, and this person does a very good job in not revealing too many details about the film. I also think that the synopsis is fairly lengthy but it is pretty good at explaining what the film is about.
"Ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents are moving to a new town, much to Chihiro's displeasure. While driving, they get lost and her father decides to take a shortcut down a mysterious forested pathway. After a short but bumpy drive, the family comes to a stop at what seems to be an abandoned theme park. Curious, the father leads his family through a tunnel and explores the park, finding a deserted town and a stall full of freshly-cooked food. The parents greedily help themselves while Chihiro refuses to eat. As Chihiro's parents are eating, she wanders off and meets a boy named Haku. Haku seems to be familiar with Chihiro and warns her to escape with her parents; she returns to find they have turned into pigs, and that the way back has become a deep river. Spirits appear and go about the park. Haku secretly takes Chihiro to a large bathhouse to avoid alerting the spirits to her presence. Haku then tells her that she must get a job from the boiler man, Kamajii until he can help her recover her parents and escape."
This synopsis is very good because it shows a fair amount of detail when telling the story of spirited away. When it talks about the story of the film, it gives a fair amount of detail away while talking about the story in case someone may want to watch film afterwards and may want to enjoy it.
Resources
The equipment that studio Ghibli had used were mainly pencil and paper because their style is mainly hand drawn films and they do this to deliver amazing animation quality. Hand drawn animation is usually not used in this day of age because most studios have moved on to digital animations, which take less time to make but are often lacking in quality. They upload all of their drawings on their computers and edit and finalise all their drawings in a program called Opentoonz. The film that they exported the format in was a 35 MM (Kodak Vision 2383). They exported with this sort of technology because they wanted to deliver a high quality picture.
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Personnel
The director and the writer of Spirited Away is the world renowned director 'Hayao Miyazaki'. He had completely wrote the script and directed the movie. He had also helped animate some parts of the movie so he could get the smoothness of the film fitted in. Other movies he has worked on were My Neighbor 'Totoro', 'Ponyo' and 'Howls Moving Castle'. He was born on January 5th, 1941 an he grew up in Bunyo, Tokyo. He is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist and he is very talented at all of them.
The music composer for the film was Joe Hisaishi. He had wrote all the films music and had composed it. In my personal opinion, I think that he did a superb job in composing the music because it would take a long time to compose symphonies like the music he wrote. But I think that he wrote amazing and memorable songs that enhanced the viewing experience for me. He was born in December 6, 1950. He had attended the 'Kunitachi College of Music' after realising his passion for music and learning the violin at the age of 5. Other notable films he has composed are Howls moving castle, Ponyo and Princess Mononoke.
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Talent
Rumi Hiragi is a very talented voice actor who voices Chihiro (main character of the movie) has an array of voices to choose from. HIragi originally starred in commercials when she was younger but has worked her way up to voice acting. She was born in August 1st, 1987 in Toko. Not much is known abal Cityout her other then her TV debut. She has worked on other films like Ponyo and Detroit Metal City.
Miyu Irino is a voice actor that plays Haku in the film as the silent protagonist and is shown along side Chihiro. He was born in February 19, 1988. He was raised in Tokyo. He has done other notable voices from other anime and games like Sora of Kingdom Hearts, Yu-gi-oh and One piece. He is not well known when compared to other voice actors.
Mari Natsuki is a Japanese singer, dancer and actor who voiced as guest a guest voice actor. She was born in 2nd May, 1952. She had started voice acting in 2007 and had begun her career in singing and acting. Other notable works that she has been part of was Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted 3 and Sakuran.
Finance
There was only one production company used to make "Spirited Away" and that was Studio Ghibli. In the US both "Disney Pictures" and "DreamWorks" helped sell/promote the movie around the world.
Locations
Due to the fact that "Spirited Away" was an animated movie, there were no locations used for the filming of the actual movie,although there was a location that the setting of the movie was inspired by. "Spirited Away" has a setting that is based on "Jiufen" in "Taiwan", you notice that the setting for the whole movie is similar to "Jiufen"
Costs
"Spirited Away" had a budget of 1.9 billion Japanese yen, which is 17M dollars
Placement:
"Spirited Away" was released in countries such as "Japan", "Argentina","Spain","Italy" and the "UK" and "US". The reason why the film was released in these certain countries is that they are countries where anime is very popular, and it would make sense for the makers of the film to release the movie in areas where they think it would be successful.
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