Spirited Away

So many years ago, like ten years ago, I could see Spirited Away and since then, I keep watching this movie because it become in one of my favourite movies

Spirited Away, known as El viaje de Chihiro in Spain, is the ninth Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki film, the famous director and screenwriter who made: My neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Howl's moving castle...(Personally, I love all Studio Ghibli and Hayzao Miyazaki films and I saw all their films! but with no doubt my favourite is My neighbor Totoro)

Spirited Away had won a lot of awards in category of: best film, best Asian film and best song, and also won The golden Bear in Berlin. 

All starts with chihiro's family who are moving to another town, but Chihiro's father takes a wrong turn. Then they enter a magical world that Chihiro's father insists on exploring, who believes it's an abandoned thematic park. Her parents sit at a restaurant, meanwhile, Chihiro discovers a bathhouse, where a boy known as Haku tells her to get out before the sunset. Chihiro returns to her parents, and discovers that they have transformed into pigs. She wants to escape, but the way by  the way that they came is flood. Frightened and alone, she observes how the world becomes to a paradise for spirits.

Haku finds Chihiro, and advises her to demand a job from Kamaji,who prepares the water for guests. Kamaji and Lin, one of the employees, send Chihiro to Yubaba, the owner of the bathhouse. Yubaba doesn't want to employ Chihiro but finnally she accepts her service but with one condition: her name will be Sen. Haku takes her to visit her parents, and returns her clothes, and inside the clothes Chihiro finds a goodbye card with her real name written on it. Haku tells her Yubaba controls people by taking their names, also he tells her that she will be captured if Yubaba takes her name and Haku add that this happened to him.

While Chihiro is working accidentaly invites a No-face because then, a stink spirit arrives and Chihiro is assigned to tend the guest but accidentally she discovers that this spirit is actually a guardian spirit and this spirit in appreciation for his "cleanliness" gives to her one special tart.

Later, when everybody is sleep the No-face creature eats an employee and starts demanding food, producing fake gold.

Chihiro discovers "papers" attacking a white-blue dragon and she recognized as Haku, Chihiro follows the dragon and enter to Yubaba's room and then one "paper" transforms into Zeniba, Yubaba's twin sister. Also, Yubaba tells Chihiro that Haku has stolen a magic seal and because that he is being punished, immediatly after Haku falls into one hole, that is situated in the center of the Yubaba's room, and Chihiro trys to help him driving him to Kamaji's room. Inside Kamaji's room she takes care of him and gaves to him part of the magic tart and thanks to this tart Haku can vomit one magic demon who causes him an incredible malaise.

Before leaving to Zeniba's house for apologize for Haku's behaviour, Chihiro needs to repair the damage that has done the No-Face and for this Chihiro gives to him one part of the tart and because this the No-Face vomites all the employee who he has eaten. When No-Face becomes normal again Chihiro, him and Boh (Yubaba's baby who Zeniba had transformed into a rat) went to Zeniba's house by train, with some tickets that Kamaji have given to them.

When they are appears Haku and keeps Chihiro and Boh to the baths, they travell over Haku (who is in his dragon form). During the travel chihiro explains to Haku one anecdote that permits Haku remember his name and become a free man, his real name is: Nigihayami kohaku nushi.

                                    

When they arrive at the bathhouse, Yubaba tells Chihiro that if she wants to leave this world and go with her parents outside she must guess her parents from amog a group of pigs. Chihiro says correctly that none of the pigs are her parents and she can leave from this world. 

The movie ends when Chihiro and her parents walk back to their car which is covered in fallen leaves.

I really enjoy this film every time I watch it because it is enjoyable and really good, actually you enter in this magic world since the first minute it catches you. This film makes you dream and if you are a little kid makes you want to be Chihiro and meet Haku and all her friends. Also, it's very good because even though it will be easy to create a couple with Chihiro and Haku, the creators don't do it, they only create a good friendship, what is good.