Och’s Weekend Movie: Spirited Away

November 30th, 2007 by ikiro

Jonathan Ross is sort of a connaisseur of Japanese flicks, or at least he poses as such in his, not very unknown to the Och audience, documentary Asian Invasion. In his chapter on Japanese anime, Jonathan pays special attention to the works of Hayao Miyazaki. Even more attention paying Ochers may remember him as the director of Mononoke-Hime (1997), an Och’s Weekend Movie featured in our cinema last year’s summer. So on Jonathan’s advise and Och’s request we present another Miyazaki flick as this week’s Och’s Weekend Movie: Spirited Away (2001).

Awarded with an academy award for best Animation, Spirited Away is a Japanese Alice in Wonderland: some 10-yr old chick named Chihiro (Japanese for Sijtje) ends up in a world filled with magic and weirdos and has to find her way back home again. As for the Miyazaki touch, let me quote from a K.U.T.-recensie:

Magistrale klanktapijten, satirische hekelingen, verwijzingen naar verschillende geledingen van de Japanse mythologie. En vooral: een tot in de pietluttigste details verzorgt canvas, onvoorstelbare kleuren, schitterende travels en dat alles zonder één enkele computerframe.

More info & trailers.

For the people who used to be 10 years old, and the people who are going to be 10 years old — Hayao Miyazaki

Because Sinterklaas is around, Movie Piet has prepared a Dutch spoken version for all those junior Ochers around. Well… Dutch with a soft G anyway.

Dutch | Japanese