Rumi Hiiragi

Miyu Irino

Mari Natsuki

Takashi Naito

Yasuko Sawaguchi

Tsunehiko Kamijô

Takehiko Ono

Bunta Sugawara

Akio Nakamura

Yumi Tamai

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Tatsuya Gashûin

Yo Oizumi

Ken Yasuda

Koba Hayashi

Shigeru Wakita

Shirou Saitou

Michiko Yamamoto

Keiko Tsukamoto

Shinji Tokumaru

Kaori Yamagata

Tsuzuki Kayako

Masahiro Asano

Kazutaka Hayashida

Ikuko Yamamoto

Mina Meguro

Tetsurô Ishibashi

Katsutomo Shîbara

Shinobu Katabuchi

Noriko Kitou

Naoto Kaji

Yoshitaka Sukegawa

Aki Tachikawa

Noriko Yamaya

Katsuhisa Matsuo

Masayuki Kizu

Yôko Ôno

Sachie Azuma

Shigeyuki Totsugi

Mayumi Saco

Sonoko Soeda

Akiko Tomihira

Minako Masuda

Orika Ono

Rina Yamada

Miwa Takachi

Hiromi Takeuchi

Makiko Oku

Takeshi Seyama

Toshio Suzuki

Atsushi Okui

Hayao Miyazaki

Joe Hisaishi

Yasuyoshi Tokuma

Yoji Takeshige

Kitaro Kosaka

Megumi Kagawa

Masashi Ando

Atsushi Tamura

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Hisaki Furukawa

Atsuko Tanaka

Nobuyuki Takeuchi

Ryoko Ina

Kaori Fujii

Yoshikazu Fukutome

Misuzu Kurata

Hideki Hamasu

Noboru Yoshida

Kenichi Konishi

Shinji Hashimoto

Kazuo Nagai

Kuniyuki Ishii

Masahiro Kubota

Sayaka Hirahara

Hiroaki Sasaki

Kazuyoshi Onoda

Shizue Kaneko

Masaru Matsuse

Akihiko Yamashita

Hiromasa Ogura

Kikuyo Yano

Hisae Saito

Mariko Matsuo

Makiko Futaki

Shinya Ohira

Takaaki Yamashita

Hiroomi Yamakawa

Masaru Ohshiro

Osamu Masuyama

Naomi Kasugai

Tomoe Ishihara

Yoshihiro Osugi

Noboru Takano

Shojuro Yamauchi

Banjiro Uemura

Kenichi Yamada

Hideaki Yoshio

Atsushi Yamagata

Hisashi Mori

Masanori Kikuchi

Katsutoshi Nakamura

Shigeru Kimishima

Tamami Yamada

Keiko Itogawa

Masako Shinohara

Naoya Tanaka

Kyoko Naganawa

Takeyoshi Matsushita

Takeshi Inamura

Eiji Yamamori

Makiko Suzuki

Yuichi Tanaka

Shougo Furuya

Seiichiro Ujiie

Koji Hoshino

Masako Nagata

Junji Yabuta

Hironori Aihara

Yutaka Narita

Mitsunori Kataama

Atsushi Takahashi

Nozomu Takahashi

Mikio Mori

Michiyo Yasuda

Masayuki Miyaji

Wataru Takahashi

Shuji Inoue

Michihiro Itou

Tsutomu Kawahigashi

Youmi Kimura

Toru Noguchi

Nizou Yamamoto

Dave Bossert

Kazuo Oga

Yoshiyuki Momose

Animation

Family

Fantasy

千と千尋の神隠し

Studio Ghibli

Japan

ZeBlah

One of the great "masters" of the anime art. Somehow, if I would personally associate "Akira" to "self-destruction", then this anime would be the opposite :)

CinemaSerf

I quite liked the look of the new house that "Chihiro" and her parents were to move to, but she isn't so keen, and being ten had the weight of the world on her shoulders. En route to meet the removal men, her dad takes a wrong turning and soon, together with her mum, end up at the end of a tunnel. What would you do? Go in of course! Luckily it's quite a short walk before they find themselves in a small village that's full of shops all laid out for a banquet. Mum and dad tuck in but the young girl just wants to get going. Ignored, she explores a little as they gorge themselves and that's when she encounters the young "Haku" who suggests that she might like to leave. Snag is - her parents have quite literally now gone a bit porcine and she's going to have to rely on her new friend if she is to rescue them from an impending visit to the abattoir. A job is her first task, and for that she needs a contract with the wart-nosed witch "Yubaba" - and so off we go on a series of marvellously creative escapades discovering some coal spirits; that her friend has a secret identity; her boss an huge great baby and the entire place serves as a sort of bathhouse for the enigmatic "No Face" whose agenda isn't clear to anyone, though we do know he has a rapacious appetite and can make his own gold! The detail of the animation is astonishing and coupled with the mysticism of ancient Japanese folk lore works really well at creating a characterful and engaging story. I just love the lithe dragons of Oriental mythology as opposed to the scaly, stodgy, European ones. The concept of identity underpins much of the narrative here, with not just "Chihiro" but pretty much everyone else coming to terms with flaws and strengths in their personalities requiring a degree of human spirit, trust and forgiveness if ever anyone is to thrive and if ever she and her folks are to get to that new house on the hill. It's two hours really goes fly by and I thoroughly enjoyed it.