SPIRITED AWAY -- or This Week In Acid Casualty Anime Fairy Tales That Will Haunt Your Dreams For A Long Time But Make You Want To Watch Them Over And Over Again

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Which leads me to ask who John Lasseter is...

*googles*

Yeah, that would qualify him, wouldn't it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

BRING OUT NAUSICAA, PORCO ROSSO, AND THE OTHERS YOU BASTARDS

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 12 May 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

This movie is fucking amazing. I can't even begin to describe...just WOW.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

And a little research has turned up how to get that DVD DB mentioned at the start of the thread for a good price, though it is Region 3. Definitely time for me to get that multi-region player...

Ned, the Japanese Region 3 double DVD set (Spirited Away + Storyboards & Making of) is playable on my computer (RC1) as well as my flatmate's (RC2). I don't know about "regular" DVD players though.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've got a multiregion one now so I might yet get that. But I wonder what it's like compared to the American release.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

This movie needs more giant robots and tentacle sex.

― adam (adam), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

And Will Smith in the lead role.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kiki's Delivery Service is out on DVD. And Jess, if you're not a Jap-lang. whore, Kim's has like a 12 dvd set for around $59 dollars or something, English dubbing with Chinese subtitles. I would get it but I like to hear the Nihon-go.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 04:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really enjoyed this movie, though it really did give me nightmares. It was all because of that No Face guy - yikes!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

I had a dream last night that I was on a hanglider and the muddy stink-beast from Spirited Away was chasing me. I tricked him into going into the ocean, though, where the saltwater dissolved him.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wow - we watched Spirited Away twice last night (taking a break to do a Baskin Robin's run for Chocolate Chip Mint and Cookie Dough). I am still completely entranced and disturbed and my mind is all swirly. I do wish that I had some concept of the mythological/historical/cultural allusions in the film - I think that there were many levels of meaning that went right over my head. I loved those little coal-carrying things, though.

So, um, does anyone want to venture what happened to the family once they returned to their car and drove to their "new" home? (With the time passage and stuff, I mean.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 19 May 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw this last night and LOVED it and now I want to watch it again. Despite No Face being kind of scary, I really liked him.

― Mandee, Monday, 19 May 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

strictly Alice In Wonderland turf
I reckon he wanted to animate certain things - then found a way to link 'em all in a 'story?'

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 19 May 2003 01:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

does anyone want to venture what happened to the family once they returned to their car and drove to their "new" home?

That's part of the joy of the story...that it ends there, and you just don't know. I'm not sure myself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 May 2003 02:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's one of the things I really like about Miyazaki's style, is that he leaves lots of things unexplained; the 3 bouncing grunting heads, the strange encounter with the radish spirit, the strange eerie spirits out in the streets...it kinda adds to the strange realism of his films by leaving so much unexplained.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 19 May 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

It seemed really long. Almost all anime movies I've seen seem too slow. I liked the imagination on display, but I doubt I got more out of it that I would had I looked at a portfolio of the character designs.

I agree with Paul. Very Wonderlandish... As in nearly every scene is another "This is how we do things here in CRAZY Alternate Dimension World... Look there: CRAZY!"

― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

six months pass...

NO FACE was so cute. When he tried to give her all those herbal cakes he looked like a puppy. It was a bit sad that she never said goodbye to him properly.

I just saw it for the first time on Thursday. The CCA are showing it with subtitles. They never bother me but I guess I must have been missing visual tuff without realising - I'd love to see the dubbed version too, seeing as people say it's so well done.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 14 December 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

If you want some insight into the origins of some of the weird beings and happenings in Spirited Away, have a read at Shinto and its Festivals by Denny Sargent.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 14 December 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link

Miyazaki believes in the audience feeling genuine, powerful emotions, terror, confusion, unease, gladness, love. Like in early Disney, eg Pinnochio, not today where it's all filtered for you into a low-key blandness.
I saw Spirited Away several times and it stayed fresh while each time suggesting more to me. Finally i think it's an allegory of the horror of having to grow up and go to work. Chihiro being in fear of her life conveys the death of innocence that we fight against.

― pete s, Sunday, 14 December 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

i have gathered that @d@m doesn't like this movie AT ALL and want to know why.

I think it's great, but the story is a little meandering and the characters seem to change from being likable to unlikeable rather suddenly sometimes, I'm assuming this is just a cultural difference or something.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

I don't hate it, I just don't understand all the hullabaloo!

Manga/Anime-what's the big deal?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

I don't hate it, I just don't understand all the hullabaloo!

Well, you're a punk. Uh, yeah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:43 (twenty years ago) link

Films that make N post stuff like THIS -

"NO FACE was so cute. When he tried to give her all those herbal cakes he looked like a puppy.

- should be banned OUTRIGHT!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

I saw it a few weeks ago and was left singularly unmoved.

Was too long, the charcters were not particularly interesting, story was not that original and the animation did not excite me at all. I was all excited too as I'd heard good stuff about it and walked out feeling 'that was it?!?'

― H (Heruy), Monday, 15 December 2003 06:40 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, you big meanie. I finally saw this Saturday and I thought it was absolutely beautiful! HSA was a bit "Oh, it was slightly too self consciouly weird!" and I told him "no, it's a fairy tale, fairy tales are always weird, you just think of it as self conscious because you don't know the myths that it's based on!"

I loved it, and I'm film-deaf. I thought it was charming and beautiful without being twee, it was suspenceful and scary without being horrifically violent, and it made me happy.

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 15 December 2003 11:05 (twenty years ago) link

Fantastic film, wonderful, marvellous, and I can't believe it's not out on DVD yet :(

I saw the dubbed version and thought it was excellent. Of course, it's animation, so it's MUCH easier to dub than a live action film - from experience there should be almost no lowering of quality or balance because of this. Having said that, Sarah saw it in Japanese and definitely preferred that version - sgs to thread to explain why?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 December 2003 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I was disappointed that it was dubbed and not subtitled. There seemed to be things that were missing, but not enough to spoil my enjoyment of the film. However, subtitles in such a visual extravaganza of a film might have really intruded. You don't want to be busy trying to read subtitles while a stink demon is wrecking havoc on the bathhouse, do you?

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 15 December 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link

In here we have subtitles in every film (except in Finnish ones, obviously), it isn't that big a distraction. I have no idea about the dubbed version, but the Japanese voice actors in Spirited Away were great.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 15 December 2003 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

markelby, I saw it on DVD so you should be able to find it.

― H (Heruy), Monday, 15 December 2003 13:12 (twenty years ago) link

You can get it on Region 1 but Amazon doesn't list a Region 2 release date yet I don't think. I know, region-free players yadda.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 December 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

When I watched it I had trouble reading the subtitles, problems keeping up like I was in 2nd grade or something. But Dakota Fanning who dubbed for Chihiro really grated on my nerves, so I learned to read again.

I suggest rounding up all the hataz into a rocket and firing them into the sun. The scene on the train is one of the most powerfully emotional scenes I've ever witnessed.

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

on the dubbing of anime ... i was very surprised to see the recent re-release of Akira w/ subtitles. the original i'd seen had been dubbed and i found the plot and dialogue v. confusing. the subtitles seemed to make much more sense - why couldn't they have just translated the dialogue that way in the first place??

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

I bought the dvd for a friend for xmas. I really want to open it and watch it. :(

when i saw it in the theater it was dubbed so i assume the dvd is too.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

The DVD has both dubbed and subtitled options, thankfully.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:31 (twenty years ago) link

DO you have access to a shrinkwrap machine? Because then you could watch it and then wrap it back up! (Not that this has ever occurred to me before or I've tried it when I was younger with disasterous results, oh no...)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

If you believe that, the Brooklyn Bridge is still new....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link

Can't you just pretend you got it from some independent eco-friendly DVD store that doesn't shrinkwrap things?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Here's an article that talks about Miyazaki's next movie. Sounds pretty cool too.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

This guy retires more often than the Cure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

*rechecks story* Although Diana Wynne Jones! That's wonderful, she's a fantastic and deeply underrated author, and given Miyazaki's increasing cachet everywhere now, I hope this turns into something that really showcases her work.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

at the risk of reviving another thread for it to just die on it's arse like the last half a dozen:

Spirited Away double dvds available for a tenner in Virgin megastores around the country* now

* sample size = 1 - Hammersmith

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw quite a few Japanese animation things, but I don't know if they're any good. Something about vampires.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Blood: The Last Vampire?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

The animation is very good, the story for that one is very meh though.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, it was just too short.

I got Kah Doh Maru on DVD, it was very disappointing!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Beware the Disney DVD of My Neighbor Totoro, by the way. It's JUST the dubbed version, with no subtitle feature offered. WTF? I thought that was kind of standard for a non-English film on DVD. My dreams will remain unfulfilled until I've seen the Japanese version of Totoro.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

What of all this 'Ghost in the Shell 2 / Innocence' business? I've seen a trailer but have no idea if this is already out worldwide or still a Japan-only thing (?)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

animation and story are more than meh - they're crap.

i recognize the unhealthily excessive love for this film is driving my ever-increasing levels of dislike - but PLZ PPL its is just not that good!!!!

Why??? Why??

― H (Heruy), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

eh? "kai doh maru" doesnt seem to haev an imdb entry. not even the crew can be found. what is goign on here.

― :|, Friday, 27 August 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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Will be seeing this next Friday in London. Very excited!

― willem, Monday, 6 May 2024 07:00 (three weeks ago) link

Yes! I'm going later in the month and I am psyched!

― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 6 May 2024 08:00 (three weeks ago) link

(Is that the play of My Neighbour Totoro, though?)

The start of this thread is the least grumpy I've ever seen jess!

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 6 May 2024 08:30 (three weeks ago) link

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