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Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki · 2001 · Film

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It introduced a global middle-grade audience to complex, nuanced storytelling from a non-Western perspective, exploring themes of courage, environmentalism, and the loss of innocence through a richly imaginative and sometimes unsettling spirit world.

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Ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon a mysterious abandoned amusement park, which turns out to be a bathhouse for spirits. When her parents are turned into pigs, Chihiro must work in the spirit world to save them and find her way back home.

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