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''Spirited Away'' was released in its home country on July 20, 2001, and an English dub conducted by Disney came to the United States on December 20, 2002.

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''Spirited Away'' was released in its home country on July 20, 2001, and an English dub conducted by Disney came to the United States on December September 20, 2002.
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* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: A hilarious scene in which Lin smuggles Sen aboard the bath house's upper elevator. She's stuck on it with the elephantine, UglyCute Radish Spirit. Since she's ''really'' not supposed to be in the bath-house at all and most of the other spirits have already expressed their revulsion for humanity, she's trying hard to brace for the worst while remaining unnoticed. (Not easy when the other passenger is so big that you're being squeezed against the side of the elevator.) Veeery awkward. Luckily, he's either kindly enough, mischievous enough, or apathetic enough to call nobody's attention to her.

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* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: A hilarious scene in which Lin smuggles Sen Chihiro aboard the bath house's upper elevator. She's stuck on it with the elephantine, UglyCute Radish Spirit. Since she's ''really'' not supposed to be in the bath-house at all and most of the other spirits have already expressed their revulsion for humanity, she's trying hard to brace for the worst while remaining unnoticed. (Not easy when the other passenger is so big that you're being squeezed against the side of the elevator.) Veeery awkward. Luckily, he's either kindly enough, mischievous enough, or apathetic enough to call nobody's attention to her.
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Reccord has been broken by Miyazaki’s second win


The film was an immediate hit in both Japan and America, and was the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time for almost two decades, grossing a total of 31.68 billion yen ($304.2 million), until it was topped by ''[[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train]]'' in 2020. It also won the MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedFeature, making it the first (and currently only) traditionally animated film, anime film, and non-English-language animated film to do so. This victory was especially noteworthy as the Oscars tend to favor [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] and/or American productions.

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The film was an immediate hit in both Japan and America, and was the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time for almost two decades, grossing a total of 31.68 billion yen ($304.2 million), until it was topped by ''[[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train]]'' in 2020. It also won the MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedFeature, making it the first (and currently only) traditionally animated film, anime film, and non-English-language animated film to do so. This victory was especially noteworthy as the Oscars tend to favor [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] and/or American productions.
productions. It would hold the record of being the only anime film to win the Oscar in that category until Miyazaki won again for 2023’s ''Anime/TheBoyAndTheHeron''.
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* FacialFacade: Implied with No-Face, who nominally has a white mask for a face. Given his name however (and the fact his mouth is located elsewhere) it is heavily implied the mask is just a rouse to lure in victims, and he is actually TheBlank.
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Chihiro Ogino (Rumi Hiiragi), a sullen young girl unwillingly moving to a new town, is stranded in the spirit world after her parents Akio (Takeshi Naito) and Yuko (Yasuko Sawaguchi) stop by what appears to be an abandoned amusement park and eat food that turns them into pigs. At first, her only aid is Haku (Creator/MiyuIrino), a mysterious boy who finds her shelter and a job in a bathhouse that caters to these spirits. Eventually, Chihiro makes more friends as she searches for a way to make her parents human again and escape the spirit world before she forgets her real identity. And that's all just within the first 30(ish)-minutes of the movie--and that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the odd denizens of the spirit world, ranging from the villainous bathhouse manager Yubaba (Mari Natsuki) to arachnid worker Kamajii (Bunta Sugawara) to the enigmatic, near-voiceless spirit No-Face (Akio Nakamura).

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Chihiro Ogino (Rumi Hiiragi), a sullen young girl unwillingly moving to a new town, is stranded in the spirit world after her parents Akio (Takeshi Naito) Naito and Yuko (Yasuko Yasuko Sawaguchi) stop by what appears to be an abandoned amusement park and eat food that turns them into pigs. At first, her only aid is Haku (Creator/MiyuIrino), a mysterious boy who finds her shelter and a job in a bathhouse that caters to these spirits. Eventually, Chihiro makes more friends as she searches for a way to make her parents human again and escape the spirit world before she forgets her real identity. And that's all just within the first 30(ish)-minutes of the movie--and that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the odd denizens of the spirit world, ranging from the villainous bathhouse manager managing witch Yubaba (Mari Natsuki) to arachnid worker Kamajii (Bunta Sugawara) to the enigmatic, near-voiceless spirit No-Face (Akio Nakamura).
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Towards the beginning, when Chihiro and her parents find the abandoned restaurant, they have either two ways to respond to the situation at hand. On one hand, Chihiro's parents have a moment of weakness when they let even a little greed and hunger tempt them to help themselves to the food before they've even paid. On the other hand, Chihiro refuses to partake the food, even at her own parents behest, because she recognizes they'll get in trouble for eating without permission from the restaurant's owners. Three guesses as to which party had the right idea.
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* RecycledTrailerMusic: One of the Japanese trailers for the movie uses the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2EDABZX_Ow "The Lost Paradise"]] from ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''.

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* RecycledTrailerMusic: One of the Japanese trailers for the movie uses the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2EDABZX_Ow "The Lost Paradise"]] from the American soundtrack of ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''.
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* NamedByTheDub: Somewhat {{inverted|Trope}} twice:
** Boh's name is never mentioned in the English dub, but [[AllThereInTheScript the credits still refer to him by his name]].
** Yu-Bird, AKA Haeldori, is never referred to by name in the English dub and is just called "that bird".
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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with the Australian TV show]] ''Series/{{Spirited}}'', the 1974 film ''Swept Away'', that film's 2002 remake[=/=]Music/{{Madonna}} vehicle, the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom/WesternAnimation/''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[Fanfic/SpiritedAway2012 fanfic of the same name]], or the [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation DreamWorks]] film ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron''.

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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with the Australian TV show]] ''Series/{{Spirited}}'', the 1974 film ''Swept Away'', that film's 2002 remake[=/=]Music/{{Madonna}} vehicle, the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom/WesternAnimation/''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[Fanfic/SpiritedAway2012 fanfic of the same name]], 2012 fanfic]], or the [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation DreamWorks]] film ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron''.
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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with the Australian TV show]] ''Series/{{Spirited}}'', the 1974 film ''Swept Away'', that film's 2002 remake[=/=]Music/{{Madonna}} vehicle, or the [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation DreamWorks]] film ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron''.

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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with the Australian TV show]] ''Series/{{Spirited}}'', the 1974 film ''Swept Away'', that film's 2002 remake[=/=]Music/{{Madonna}} vehicle, the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom/WesternAnimation/''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[Fanfic/SpiritedAway2012 fanfic of the same name]], or the [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation DreamWorks]] film ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron''.
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The film was an immediate hit in both Japan and America, and was the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time for almost two decades, grossing a total of 31.68 billion yen ($304.2 million), until it was topped by ''[[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train]]'' in 2020. It also won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedFeature, making it the first (and currently only) traditionally animated film, anime film, and non-English-language animated film to do so. This victory was especially noteworthy as the Oscars tend to favor [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] and/or American productions.

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The film was an immediate hit in both Japan and America, and was the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time for almost two decades, grossing a total of 31.68 billion yen ($304.2 million), until it was topped by ''[[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train]]'' in 2020. It also won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedFeature, MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedFeature, making it the first (and currently only) traditionally animated film, anime film, and non-English-language animated film to do so. This victory was especially noteworthy as the Oscars tend to favor [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] and/or American productions.

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