The best movie I've ever seen

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2013)

The most famous Japanese animation fantasy film "Spirited away" was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. This film overtook Titanic which is the top grossing film worldwide in the Japanese box office to become the highest grossing film in Japanese history. It won many prizes such as the Academy Award for Best Animation Feature. This film defeated formidable enemies such as Disney film, and won the Academy Award for the first time. This movie is the most wonderful and greatest animation movie I've ever seen. I fell in love with it when I saw it at first and I do not get tired of looking at and the more I watch, the more I will see, and the more interesting it will become.
The heroine Chihiro who is 10 years old and her parents lost their way to the new house and find a weird tunnel which leads them to the wonderful world. The heroine and her parents setting are modern people and their behavior tells us about nowadays people's behavior. This wonderful world setting is a wooden building hot spring with amazing world view and I was attracted by this amazing world view and spiritual fantasy story. When her parents see a restaurant with great-smelling food but no staff inside of this wonderland, they decide to eat and pay later. However, this food is offer to god, therefore human must not to eat. Chihiro's parents make a big mistake and they turned into pig by the witch. Chihiro separated from her parents and started to work at the hot spring which is controlled by a witch, because human can't live in this wonderland if they don't have a job. She meets a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her to return to their world . The witch steals employees names which means you lose yourself and she gave them a new name to control them with her magic. Chihiro's behavior is like a spoiled child at the first, but she grows up through her strange experience and this is the main point of this story. This film also tell the audience many things, for example saying "Thank you" to people who have helped you.
There are many characters who appear with a unique personality in this film. I was fascinated with their facial expression, movement and feeling. The most mysterious character I think in this mysterious world that human, witch, wizard, monster, Buddha and God spending together is No-Face. Some people feel unpleasant because of it weird form and action. However, in my opinion, No-Face is an important character who is a contrast with Chihiro. In contrast to Chihiro who has a purpose and knows what she should do to accomplish it, No-Face doesn't have a sense of self and place to stay and just wandered aimlessly. No face means to not have facial expression and words to communicate with somebody. There are some people who are on the way to success that have a job and friends to help them. However, there are also some people who are embarrassed at their life and feel fear and anxiety. If Chihiro is a heroine, in my opinion, No-Face is a dark hero.
Moreover, this animation film should be proud of the brilliant picture which portrays the characters dainty movement and emotion. The scene of the opening of the mouth of the dragon by force was so realistic and I was very impressed. Not only the characters but also the scenery is beautiful. The changing scenery outside the train is fabulous and it follows Japanese history towards modern era. The picture of the background is worthy of attention.
Portraying the reality in the fantasy and having a strong message related in the story is the feature of Hayao Miyazaki films. Among his film, "Spirited away" especially has a strong message that he want to tell to audience. Furthermore, it has a lot of ambiguous expression therefore interpretation is different to each person. However, it is too unclear to understand what he want to tell us. Children can enjoy watching this movie as a wonderful world and adventure story and adults can also enjoy it thinking about the story deeply.