Before Spirited Away won an Oscar, Miyazaki’s lost Mononoke story laid the foundation for Ghibli’s greatest films.

“Spirited Away” exemplifies director Hayao Miyazaki’s unique style of storytelling through fantastical, bizarre worldbuilding, complex yet understandable characters, and a message that transcends time ...

It’s happened a lot more than you would expect. But I don’t feel that way with Chihiro in Spirited Away. For children, she is the perfect symbol of kindness. She’s willing to help anyone in ...

Spirited Away is one of the most beloved Studio Ghibli movies. It highlights the beauty of Hayao Miyazaki’s art, brings us a compelling array of characters, and ties it all together with a touch ...

There’s something particularly depressing about Miyazaki’s aesthetic, so affecting in “Spirited Away” and other films, becoming the unwitting template for this mass AI experimentation.

The early years of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature promised a future that never came to pass. Its current state as a depressingly predictable category dominated by whatever Disney ...

There was never any doubt as to whether the director John Caird’s stage adaptation of “Spirited Away” would incorporate puppets. They were part of his original pitch to Hayao Miyazaki ...

Promotional copy advertises this novel as the story that inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece film “Spirited Away.” We’ll return to this. First things first: Sachiko Kashiwaba’s novel ...