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Spirited Away is Miyazaki's most successful film. It stayed in Japanese theaters for more than ten months when it was released there in July 2001 and made over $234 million, becoming the highest-grossing movie in the country's box office history. Following this tremendous success in its native country, Spirited Away was translated into English with Lasseter's guidance and dubbed by a virtual who's-who of previous Disney voiceover stars. It was met with nearly universal critical and public acclaim and won the 2002 Best Animated Feature Academy Award. It won numerous awards all over the world.

The US theatrical release date is September 20, 2002. It is rated PG for some scary moments. On April 15, 2003, the Spirited Away DVD version released. Unfortunately, the Spirited Away Blu ray version is still on the way. Anyway, for most of us, DVD version is also good.

Spirited Away DVD  specifications

• 2.0:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 (Japanese, English), Dolby Surround 2.0 (French)
• Subtitles: English, English captions; Closed Captioned
• Two single-sided discs (DVD-9 & DVD-5); THX-Certified with Optimizer Tests

Brief introduction of Spirited Away:

The film spirits us away along Chihiro (Lilo & Stitch's Daveigh Chase), a ten-year-old girl who is forced to leave her friends behind and move to a new home in the suburbs with her parents (Michael Chiklis and Lauren Holly). When Chihiro’s parents are turned into pigs, she has no choice but to move in with the spirits who visit the nearby bathhouse in the hopes of earning their freedom from the witch who owns the place. The plot is incredibly psychedelic if you approach it from an American point of view. What follows is an imaginative adventure filled with Miyazaki’s favorite themes of family, loyalty, friendship and environmental preservation. 

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Extended 1 - Reviews from Tomatoes

Spirited Away is a dazzling, enchanting, and gorgeously drawn fairy tale that will leave viewers a little more curious and fascinated by the world around them. 95% audiences from Tomatoes like this movie and 97% Tomatoers reviewed with positive words.

• It's an amazing work, filled with a visual intelligence that's meticulously composed and obscenely clever. - Michael Agger from New Yorker
• Spirited Away has much to say about many worthy things: the life of the spirit, materialist greed, the importance of words, the power of love. - Joe Morgenstern from Wall Street Journal
• Enchanting and impressively crafted. - Ted Shen from Chicago Reader
• At times it's even vaguely reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, only as if illustrated by Hieronymus Bosch. It's wonderful. - Leah Rozen from People Magazine
• Anything but your regular 'toon, it's a (literally) fantastic experience. - from Total Film
• I went nuts over this movie. - Felix Vasquez Jr. from Cinema Crazed

Extended 2 - Reviews from Metacritic

Miyazaki is the Pied Piper -- see Spirited Away and you'll follow him anywhere. It gets 94 Metascore based on 37 critics, and 9.3 user score points based on 966 ratings.  

Extended 3 - Knowledge: Miyazaki Hayao, a Japanese film director, animator, manga artist, producer, and screenwriter, after working in the film industry for half a century, announced his retirement. TIME Entertainment ranked Miyazaki's Top 10 greatest films.

• Porco Rosso (1992)
• Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
• Ponyo  (2008)
• Howl’s Moving Castle  (2004)
• Nausicaa of the Valley of theWind  (1984)                             
• Kiki’s Delivery Service  (1989)
• Castle in the Sky  (1986)
• My Neighbor Totoro  (1988)
• Princess Mononoke  (1997)
• Spirited Away   (2001)

a great artist came along in the mid-1970s makes Disney look like a second class citizen in the animation business.