Miyazaki, you have created an animated movie I will REMEMBER for a long time

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2007)

This movie made me love Hayao Miyazaki, because I hadn't even heard of him when I first watched the movie entirely (When I first watched it, I only saw part of it). I really love the title since it goes well with Chihiro's experience of being sent away by some sort of 'spirit' to a magical world. For some reason, I haven't seen 'Howl's Moving Castle' and I so want to see this movie because, like this movie, I am really interested in it. Okay. So, Chihiro gets into this mess because, as we could relate, her dad doesn't look for directions to their new home (the, uhh, scenic route). They enter a 'market'like place and Chihiro's parents start eating the food. Chihiro wonders off, and finds the bathhouse when who should appear but Haku, telling her to get out before it's too late, and she finds her parents turned into pigs. Haku tells her to look for a job, or she'll be sent to Yubaba, the head honcho of the whole bath house. There, her name is changed to Sen. She meets Lin, who is her roommate/helper to help her with her job. A spirit named No-face comes and starts eating customers and workers, but is really interested in Sen. She refuses, and No-face goes berserk (I think). She leaves to find Yubaba's twin sister, Zeniba. Haku (who can turn into a dragon, as he is a dragon when we see him at this part), shows up and gives Chihiro a ride back to the bath house. Along the way, Chihiro remembers a time when she thinks Haku saved her and she reveals his name, Kohaku River. She makes a deal with Yubaba, and tries to figure out which pigs out the group are her parents. She realizes that none of them are her parents. The contract she signed is ripped, and she's free. She meets her parents at the end, and looks back when they reach the end of the tunnel where their car was left. She looks back and gets into the car, ready to begin her life in her new home. And that does it. Thank you, Miyazaki, for a great movie.