$20.49   MPN: D29781D UPC: 786936213843 Spirited Away Features : Animated Closed-captioned Color Dolby DVD-Video Widescreen NTSC Directors : Hayao Miyazaki Release Date:  15 April, 2003 Manufacturer:  Walt Disney Video Availability:  Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:  $29.99   Accessories: (none) Similar Products: Princess Mononoke Howl's Moving Castle Kiki's Delivery Service Castle in the Sky Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind   The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history (more than $234 million), Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi) is a dazzling film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy worlds. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Lewis Carroll's Alice, Chihiro (voice by Daveigh Chase--Lilo in Disney's Lilo & Stitch) plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new home, the petulant adolescent and her parents find what they think is a deserted amusement park. Her parents stuff themselves until they turn into pigs, and Chihiro discovers they're trapped in a resort for traditional Japanese gods and spirits. An oddly familiar boy named Haku (Jason Marsden) instructs Chihiro to request a job from Yubaba (Suzanne Pleshette), the greedy witch who rules the spa. As she works, Chihiro's untapped qualities keep her from being corrupted by the greed that pervades Yubaba's mini-empire. In a series of fantastic adventures, she purges a river god suffering from human pollution, rescues the mysterious No-Face, and befriends Yubaba's kindly twin, Zeniba (Pleshette again). The resolve, bravery, and love Chihiro discovers within herself enable her to aid Haku and save her parents. The result is a moving and magical journey, told with consummate skill by one of the masters of contemporary animation. MPAA Rated: PG ("Some scary moments") --Charles Solomon   Customer Reviews   Spirited Away Rating: 5 Spirited Away blends many themes together nicely in a tale bound to captivate. It conveys nicely the idea that humans are not far away from a spirit world or an animal world since spirits can transform into human figures and humans can talk to animals (such as spiders). And radishes can be Honorable. The story conveys notions of love, compassion, evil, good, human frailty, loneliness, meanness, etc. etc. all the while treating us to terrific illustrations. What a gift! Miyazaki truly is a master. have to give 4...this one had to grow on me... Rating: 4 Was not to wild the first time I saw this movie for I found it a bit strange. It does have to grow on one. ( or at least me) This was purchased for my daughter for Christmas. spirited away Rating: 5 This is a beautiful animated film which I saw many years ago when it was shown in a local theater. It is a children's film (best for older ones) but I thoroughly enjoyed it then and am happy to have a copy to see again. The animation is lovely. I am sending a copy to one of my grandsons who now likes Japanese animation films and wants to see this one again.