Category "spirited-away"

Chihiro's name turning to Sen

I don't understand the Japanese language or kanji, and this might be related to that. As Chihiro gives her name to Yubaba, she writes 4 symbols in a piece of pa

Why does the No Face god behave in such a way?

In Spirited Away, Chihiro opens the window for the No Face god. He comes in, and helps her with the bath tags. Later that night, the frog comes looking for go

How exactly did Chihiro guess it right in Spirited Away?

In Spirited Away, the witch Yubaba gives Chihiro a puzzle so that she and her parents go back to human world. In the puzzle, a herd of pigs, that may or may no

How does the movie Spirited Away justify its title?

The movie Spirited Away has the title in Japanese as 千と千尋の神隠し, which means Sen and Chihiro Spiriting Awa

What is the significance of these houses in Spirited Away?

In the beginning of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2001), the family drives past a dumped pile of neglected "houses for the guardian spirits". There are tw