We've got a big one here, folks! Today on FilmBabble, Charlie and Antonio watch the universally beloved masterpiece SPIRITED AWAY, one of many masterpieces hailing from the acclaimed Japanese animation studio- Studio Ghibli. A 10 year old girl moves away from home and finds that her parents have been transformed into pigs! Forced into a new world, bizarre yet not too dissimilar from our own, Chihiro goes on the quest to end all quests: the quest of growing up. Pass it on!
We've got a big one here, folks! Today on FilmBabble, Charlie and Antonio watch the universally beloved masterpiece SPIRITED AWAY, one of many masterpieces hailing from the acclaimed Japanese animation studio- Studio Ghibli. A 10 year old girl moves away from home and finds that her parents have been transformed into pigs! Forced into a new world, bizarre yet not too dissimilar from our own, Chihiro goes on the quest to end all quests: the quest of growing up. Pass it on!
Intro/outro music: "That Darn Cat" by Bobby Darin
SPIRITED AWAY (2001), written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, cinematography by Atsushi Okui, featuring the voices of Rumi Hiiragi and Daveigh Chase, Miyu Irino and Jason Marsden, Mari Natsuki and Suzanne Pleshette, Bunta Sugawara and David Ogden Stiers, and Yoomi Tamai and Susan Egan.