Spirited Away
2001AnimeJapanese125 minBRYME editorial score 10/10
A girl wanders into a spirit world and must work in a bathhouse to save her parents — and herself.
Official trailer on YouTube · GKIDS Films · link verified 16 September 2026.
The story
Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece and the only anime film ever to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Ten-year-old Chihiro enters a world of gods and spirits, loses her name, and must find her way home.
Details the desk keeps
- It is the only non-English-language film ever to win the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
- Miyazaki wrote the script after meeting his friend's 10-year-old daughter.
- The bathhouse was inspired by an actual bathhouse in Tokyo that Miyazaki visited as a child.
- Studio Ghibli drew the entire film by hand — over 1,400 animation cels.
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