Written and Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki Viz film comic
Volume 1 of 5
Spirited Away, the new film from Hayao Miyazaki, director of Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke, is the story of Chihiro, a 10-year-old girl in the midst of a move to the suburbs, who wanders into a mysterious town and finds an "other world" of gods and monsters, ruled over by a witch. There, humans are changed into animals and disappear. To survive in this new world, poor Chihiro has to go to work in a huge bathhouse patronized by bizarre beings.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY
Mom, Dad, and their daughter Chihiro are driving on their way to their new home. Chihiro isn't excited to be attending a new school. Dad takes a wrong turn, however, and the family becomes lost in a forest. Eventually, they find their way to a strange abandoned amusement park. Chihiro wanders off and returns only to find out Mom and Dad have turned into pigs, and discovers she's in a world inhabited by ghosts, demons, and strange gods. A mysterious boy Haku helps her and tells her that to survive in this world, Chihiro must find work.
This book is printed and should be read in its original Japanese right-to-left format.
Format: color, 172 pages First Printing: August 2002 Size: 5" x 7 1/8 ISBN: 1-56931-791-7
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