Spirited Away Explained

[@zilness]

I’ve wanted this video to exist for so many years. Thank you for breaking down so many things that other videos don’t cover. Even the littlest details all mean something to a Japanese watcher. Thank you thank you thank you

[@PariahQuail]

Uh- the Boy and the Heron won the Oscar this past year for best animated feature. So he’s actually won twice

[@robertjaye8316]

I appreciate this. This video, along with your Howl's Moving Castle video, helped me understand so many things that I resigned myself to believing were 100% imagined fantastic nonsense. I can't wait to rewatch Spirited Away for the umpteenth time and finally be able to actually understand more than the basic story. Side note, did anyone else get introduced to Miyazaki through Toonami's Month of Miyazaki? The ads tried to make Spirited Away look like an action movie. It's hilarious.

[@sorensnowhere]

it's interesting to see people being scared of this movie as kids. I grew up with only ponyo, and watched spirited away a little later, as a preteen probably. from the moment I laid my eyes on it, instead of seeing the spirit world as a bad thing, I kind of envyed chihiro. I have had a yearning for something beyond this world forever, and this movie absolutely condenses what that craving for wonder and a fresh breath of air feels like. I caught myself wishing that I, too, would find out that there was another side, so much more to our world, I'm a very comforting manner. the world building of the spiritworld, of the bathhouse, makes it look extremely functional and lived in (no pun intended), it's soothing to see how it seems to work even with the diversity of characters, from dragons to huge ducks and almost human entities. this is my favorite movie, to this day I cry throughout it, and in the end I'm always left thinking that if I was chihiro I would've never gone back, I would've grabbed the chance, let myself forget my name and never looked back to my life before. thank you for this video!! it's good to get more tidbits of information about the masterpiece of this movie 🙏🙏

[@Rex_Cosmos]

I heard that No Face represents the generation of young Japanese that have no direction.

[@littlecoffeebean6744]

The Boy and the Heron won an Oscar last year, and “demon Slayer- Mugen train” is actually the highest grossing film. 😅

[@peterp4k]

Hold the what now? “Prior to WW2 Japan was a communist country”???. Incorrect. During World War II, Japan was considered a military dictatorship under the guise of a constitutional monarchy, with the Emperor as the head of state, but real power largely held by the military leadership, particularly during the reign of Prime Minister Hideki Tojo; essentially, it was an authoritarian government with strong militaristic influence.

[@K0n0ne]

Neoliberalism is a hell of drug. Especially when used by so called enlightened centrist. 😂

[@abraham2172]

"Communism" could also refer to Japans economic system, its not only a form of political leadership or an ideology. For example, the economy of the facist nazi Germany was more remniscent of communist countries' economies than of capitalist countries'.

[@K0n0ne]

@ lol that’s crazy you just said so many incorrect things.

[@TryinaD]

@@abraham2172what??? No it’s not just when government does stuff. The two examples you gave were very fascist with more traditional economies, even though they were authoritarian

[@K0n0ne]

@ 🤣 you clearly know nothing about any economic system if you’re calling any era in Japan as communist.

[@Canev821]

One of my fav movies I could watch it over and over

[@Auroraakitten]

I first watched this movie at netflix yesterday.Sometimes i regret that i didn't watch this movie earlier.Spirited away was one if my favorite movies

[@Embrace-reject-zen]

Thank you for another great video! At the end of the movie - spoilers - where Chihiro rightly indicates to Yubaba that her parents are not present among the pigs… i never followed how she determines this. Still my fav film with Princess Mononoke (No Face as a perfect reflection of how we treat each other)

[@atsukorichards1675]

The kanji on the left side of the clock below looks like "長", which means "long." (By the way, a frog is called "Kaeru/カエル/かえる/蛙." And about the name "Chihiro/千尋/ちひろ", the two kanji separately mean "a thousand" and "ask" certainly, but together they make another popular word meaning "very long/deep." You have to be careful when two or more kanji make a word or phrase for it is not so simple as just putting individual meanings together.) And "Kami-kakushi/神隠し" means just "hidden by gods/disappearance without a trace."

[@dani.mp4777]

I love this so much, i have watched countless videos analyzing the movie's different aspects, but this video still taught me new things, like about the seasonal clock, and brought new perspectives. Great job!! p.s.: i would totally watch the hour long version of this

[@dearestdimple]

thank you so much! :)

[@ayanamiayachanJ]

@@dearestdimpleI own the English dub and the Japanese sub of Howl’s Moving Castle

[@jenh101]

17:01 the use of footage of capybara bathing here is sending me 😂 This is an excellent video. Really beautifully done and insightful

[@strydermclean]

Agreed that movie scared me but it was also so amazing! The amount of detail he put into his film 😮

[@KP-go5vj]

Great video, learned a good deal. Not just about the movie, which i love, but the japanese culture, which id love to see you discuss more in the future!

[@dearestdimple]

Thank you very much!

[@cheekyguza]

My first connection with Studio Ghibli was also when I was a child (like maybe 6 years old) ! My parents randomly picked the DVDs but I loved them imidetly! Especially the Spirited Away, I was in awe. Watched it ( and all of them) on repeat 24/7!🤭

[@libraryofpapel]

Good effort on research but it’s worth looking closer into the blend of beliefs that form Japanese Shinto and Buddhism and mythology. For example Jizou are buddhist in origin.

[@littlecoffeebean6744]

This video is filled with wrong “facts”. From the highest grossing film, to Shinto religion, to pre WW2 communism, to being the only Japanese film to win an Oscar. 😂

[@iamthatJosh]

Oh my God, it's so good to have you back, I have so so so so missed your videos. 🎉

[@dearestdimple]

Thank you! 🥺It is good to be back!

[@ligh7ningx7]

must have watched this movie a thousand times with my kids. loved howls moving castle and princess Mononoke too

[@funsizedazzy6708]

i found this movie on cartoon network when i was like 11 first anime movie i fell in love with

[@tukozodiac4112]

I CAN tell you the first time I saw Spirited Away and why it is so sentimental to me and why I broke down when my baby ripped the tape from my VHS 😢 This movie is soooooo special to me. 10 was when I saw it, truly perfect timing.

[@Testbug-dy6tj]

The end song was so beautiful. I was in a bad way in my life at one point. I got lucky, i was taken to the hospital, i had an Over dose listen to that song.

[@EstherHobbs-o2k]

Dearest Dimple, you have no idea how much I appreciate your videos, I love these movies and I have always wanted to know the deeper meanings behind the story, especially since it makes it so much easier to understand for an American. I hope you do more, and I completely blew up the comment section of your Howls Moving Castle video😂. I love how you explained both the book and the movie and how they connect. I love them both but they have a lot of differences. Have you ever thought of doing videos like this for books/book series or even for specific characters?

[@ryleigh618]

great video! i was hoping to hear about the radish spirit ;((

[@NickPowers117]

I like your voice. Subscribed. Keep it up 😁

[@scandell]

great video. Correction: Boy and the Heron also wont the Academy Awards for best Animated Feature

[@KP-go5vj]

Oh man I have to get to bed but I am genuinely looking forward to seeing this when I get up, I binged your back catalog already lol

[@dearestdimple]

Awesome!

[@Solar-kf2sq]

To me the most terrifying part as a kid and to this day was Noface's rampage. I refuse to watch it now.

[@shydog7276]

This was brilliant! I was a mega weeb in highschool and took Japanese for 3 years cuz, well... Anime, but. I wanted, also, to understand what I was watching better. Learn cultural references and enough spoken Japanese to mode appreciate the source material in it's intended form. I already knew several things in this but still learned sooooo much more. Thanks for this! Now I wanna watch Spirited Away again 😂

[@applausegirl5427]

Thank you for this 🥹💜💜💜

[@JayJay8i8]

The Boy and the Heron received an Oscar

[@vannayoung4122]

This is my priests favorite cartoon.

[@NTav540]

4:00 What do you mean? Miyazaki won again with The Boy and The Heron.

[@famulimus3122]

pre-WW2 Japan was Feudalist not Communist. The Japanese Imperial Family is still around and last i checked communists were not led by a monarchy.

[@heartz4tswift]

this is an amazing video! i’ll definitely be watching the howls moving castle video 🫶🏼

[@171QA]

Amazing film.

[@Peri_Cat]

LILO IS CHIHIRO!?!??! I LOVE BOTH MOVIES, HOW DID I NO HEAR THAT!?!? knowing this now, it's so obvious!!!😭😭😭

[@adianimadi7247]

i love this vidio and this movie

[@Futurebound_jpg]

I find it really funny you saying you were scared of these movies as a kid, because I only got to watch them as an adult and I wish so badly I could’ve seen them for the first time when I was little! My favorite movie when i was 5 was Coraline! An actual horror movie for children. So i wouldve loved spirited away and princess Mononoke

[@Gilded_Cage_Princess]

The Ring is also orogibally a japanese horror.

[@isanuno7694]

Really can't remember when you 1st seen it no thanks

[@Viv8ldi]

🤗

[@ellamoran6014]

I feel like the number on the clock looks like a 19 more than a 13..

[@K0n0ne]

Japan was communist 😂😂😂😂😂😂 what are you smoking?

[@sambhavnath6668]

Japanese version of alice adventures in wonderland

[@tonylarose4842]

Reupload?

[@dearestdimple]

got a copyright strike from Studio Ghibli on my first one :)

[@tonylarose4842]

@@dearestdimple oh gosh! Glad you could fix it so easily/quickly!

[@dearestdimple]

@@tonylarose4842 Thank you!😁

[@echidnaralsei1473]

yubaba is baba yaga

[@kitkat3548]

Japan has never been communist country 🤔 Japan was military imperialistic Nazi country, who supported Germany and Italy in WW2, killed more Chinese people, than all the other countries (yes, including Germany kill count in USSR), colonizing almost all Eastern Asia. 🤔 After Americans bombed them with nukes and stripped them of their army and political and military power (which is written in Japanese constitution), Japanese society changed to other form of existence.

[@novaturhidayat9636]

Frog 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸