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1 online resource (streaming video file) (2 hr. 4 min. 42 sec.) ; 0 bytes |
| Summary |
Directed by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki, this film won numerous awards including the Best Animated Feature Academy Award, the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival. Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs, on their way, they stumble upon a tunnel and Chihiro's father decides it is a shortcut. They walk through and discover a place that looks like a deserted theme park and an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Chihiro's parents gorge themselves on the food while Chihiro wanders away and finds herself in the world of ghosts, animals and other strange creatures. She runs back to find her parents, only to find that they have been turned into pigs. She is found by a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her. He gets her a job working in a in a bathhouse for Japan's thousands of gods and spirits, however, her parents are being held in the bathhouse's stockyard. Chihiro must find a way to break the spell before they end up as dinner. (From Japan, in English) (Movie, 2001) Starring: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu IrinoDirector: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise |
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Closed captioning in English |
| Event |
Broadcast 2014-12-20 at 17:55:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
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Animated films -- Technique.
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Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
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Parent and child -- Family relationships.
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Supernatural in motion pictures.
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Japan.
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California -- San Francisco.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Miyazaki, Hayao, director
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