Spirited Away (volume 1 of 5)

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Factory re-issued the film on Blu-ray and DVD on 17 October 2017 following the expiration of Disney's previous deal with Studio Ghibli in the country in North America. Yubaba and a large crowd have gathered to witness Chihiro's final task: to pick out her cursed parents from a group of pigs. The hero with the thousand-and-first face: Miyazaki's girl quester in Spirited away and Campbell's Monomyth".

Sen feeds No-Face the rest of the dumpling, and he follows Sen out of the bathhouse, steadily regurgitating everything that he has eaten. An amused Zeniba reveals that the slug had been one of Yubaba's means of controlling Haku, and that the curse put on the seal has already been broken by Sen's friendship. When describing why he made Haku a bishōnen or 'pretty boy character', Miyazaki responded that he originally had no intention to, "But if you've got a girl, you've got a boy; if there's a boy, there's a girl. While the rest of the workers celebrated after the leaving of the unnamed River Spirit, No-Face was seen sitting in a corner, watching as the workers fought and argued for leftover gold on the ground.At first, she appears no kinder than Yubaba when she becomes enraged at Haku for stealing her magic seal and threatens to take it back, regardless of what happens to Haku. At Zeniba's home, Sen gives the sigil back to Zeniba, apologizing for having squished the black slug. She then undergoes a rite of passage according to the monomyth format; to recover continuity with her past, Chihiro must create a new identity. So in that sense I thought it really was wonderful to have Chihiro actually ride the train, even better than flying through the air.

He becomes good friends with Chihiro while in his mouse form and eventually stands up to Yubaba to protect Chihiro. When asked why the film centered around Chihiro having to work, Miyazaki explained, "I got the idea from a documentary I saw on the NHK TV channel, about child labor in Peru.

Sen manages to solve the problem by feeding No-Face the remaining emetic, making him regurgitate several million tons of black poison and the bathhouse workers, then leads him out of the bathhouse. After Chihiro tries to help but inadvertently causes some disruption, Kamaji asks a worker named Lin to send Chihiro to Yubaba, the witch who runs the bathhouse. Even Krabat isn't something that the author suddenly thought up, because it's based on folktale that's been handed down from the Middle Ages.