Spirited Away

Friday, August 29 - Thursday, September 4, 2025

SHOWTIMES AT IFC CENTER

“Prepare to be astonished.” –LA Times

Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning masterpiece SPIRITED AWAY was the biggest box office hit of all time in Japan at the time of its release and a film that helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers. Wandering through an abandoned carnival site, ten-year-old Chichiro is separated from her parents and stumbles into a dream-like spirit world where she is put to work in a bathhouse for the gods, a place where all kinds of nonhuman beings come to refresh, relax and recharge. Here she encounters a vast menagerie of impossibly inventive characters — shape-shifting phantoms and spirits, some friendly, some less so — and must find the inner strength to outsmart her captors and return to her family. Combining Japanese mythology with Through the Looking Glass-type whimsy, SPIRITED AWAY cemented Miyazaki’s reputation as an icon of inspired animation and wondrous, lyrical storytelling.

Presented by GKIDS.

Screening as part of Miyazaki Matinees

Previously screened as part of our series:  A Studio Ghibli Summer, Poll Stars: Sight and Sound Picks and The Films of Studio Ghibli

  • Country Japan
  • Language English
  • Year 2001
  • Running Time 125 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor GKIDS
  • Director Hayao Miyazaki
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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