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Spirited Away review
A sulky ten-year-old wanders into a world of spirits, loses her name, and has to work for a living. Miyazaki's most complete film and his most quietly…
★★★★★ 5.0/5
Hayao Miyazaki
Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1985 and has directed the majority of its defining works. His films are hand-drawn, environmentally concerned, and organised around young protagonists who must take on adult responsibility. He is one of the few directors working at scale whose visual imagination is entirely his own, and his influence on animation worldwide is difficult to overstate.
Signature and approach
- Hand-drawn animation with architectural coherence
- Environmental themes embedded rather than stated
- Child protagonists given real responsibility
- Worlds with consistent, unexplained rules
- 1Films reviewed
- 97.0Average score
- 1941Born
- JapaneseNationality
Films by Hayao Miyazaki in our collection
Ordered by release date. Every entry links to the full review.
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Filmography reviewed
Year, genre, runtime and score for each film.
| Film | Year | Genre | Runtime | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirited Away | 2001 | Animation | 125 min | 97 |
Reading Hayao Miyazaki in context
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