On May 9, Miyazaki's classic masterpiece "Spirited Away" confirmed the introduction of domestic theaters, and the poster of the Chinese version was subsequently exposed. Fans rushed to the major social platforms to celebrate the series of their lifetime.
"Spirited Away" is called adult animation, the theme, plot and even the beautiful style of the film are worth every fan to look over and over, repeatedly deliberate on the aftertaste, and even contribute countless memes and classic quotes for everyone. Now, the film has finally been introduced into domestic departments, becoming the second animated film work released in the mainland by Hayao Miyazaki after "Totoro", which was re-screened in the mainland last year.
The first official introduction of the film does not mean that the previous film sources on major domestic video websites are pirated. In order to protect the domestic film box office, there is a quota for the introduction of foreign films in China every year. This is different from the video website buying copyright is a different type of demand, both are genuine.
On July 20, 2001, "Miyazaki's pinnacle" "Spirited Away" was first released in Japan, exactly 18 years ago. This means that if Spirited Away is a child, then this year is exactly the year when "it" will come of age, and it is also the year when the children who have grown up "watching" Spirited Away grow up, and this introduction is a very precious birthday gift for anyone.
In 2003, Spirited Away beat Disney's Star Silver Island and Star Baby, 20th Century Fox's Ice Age, DreamWorks' Pony King, won the 75th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and subsequently won the Golden Bear Award at the 52nd Berlin Film Festival, becoming the world's first animated film to win the same honor. It is the first and only animation in history to win the Berlin Golden Bear at one of Europe's three major film festivals.
To this day, "Spirited Away" still holds the top box office in the history of Japanese cinema with a super high box office of 30.8 billion yen (about 1.9 billion yuan). It is also Miyazaki's highest-rated work so far, ranking top 1 in the list of animation films on professional platforms at home and abroad for many years, scoring 9.3 on Douban with 1.04 million fans, and ranking seventh in the Top 250 Douban Movies.
Here are 12 little Easter eggs you might not have noticed even if you've seen them 20 times:
1. In the first shot of the opening scene of the animation, the card of the bouquet of flowers reads: He will meet again every day. It is a foreshadowing that Chihiro and Hakuryu once met in the Amber River. In the story that follows, they agree to see each other again when they reunite, which echoes the beginning of the shot. The last scene of the anime is Chihiro falling into the shoe of the Amber River – this is the beginning of everything and the cycle of everything.
2. The Japanese title "千と千尋の神隠し" is a word with strong Japanese folklore characteristics, meaning "hidden by the gods", which was previously used by the Japanese to refer to the situation where a child or woman disappeared for no reason and could not be found. Chinese has a translation called "The Hidden Girl", but it does not reflect this charm. The generic title simply cut off the second half, which is called "Spirited Away".
3. Chihiro, who is only 10 years old, does not look outstanding. A single ponytail, round face, collapsed nose bridge and highland red, at first glance just look like the little daughter of the neighbor's family - chihiro is said to be based on the daughter of Miyazaki's friend. Before making the anime, he had already considered the heroine as the epitome of the children born in the 90s: timid and fearful, spoiled, and overly sympathetic — this is also the state chihiro was in when she first appeared.
4. Chihiro and her parents moved from the city to the countryside and got lost. The car drove here, and in front of it was a stone statue with two sides, which served as a boundary marker between the spiritual world and the real world. This stone statue also appeared in "Bi's Trail".
Stone statues from Spirited Away
Stone statue in Trail of Bi
5, there is a river on the side of the stone statue, and the end is gone. Some people say that because the river is already on Chihiro's side.
6. Voiced chihiro's mother is veteran actress Yasuko Sawaguchi. The scene where the mother eats chicken and asks Chihiro to enjoy a meal together was originally performed by Yasuko Sawaguchi, the voice actor of the character, while holding her finger. Later, in order to increase the sense of presence, the production staff went to the fast food store to buy fried chicken and let Yasuko Sawaguchi dub while eating.
7. The prototype of Yuba's oil house in the anime is the Dogo Onsen Main Building built in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture before World War II. Since it was once the location of Studio Ghibli's travels, it was later selected as a reference for the shape of the oil house. The meguro garden, a luxury building built in Tokyo's Meguro Ward in 1931, was the inspiration for the interior decoration of the oil house in the anime.
8. Chihiro mistakenly enters the baby's room, and the cat printed on the left cushion is Kiki's little black cat in Miyazaki's "Witch House Emergency".
9. The flower bush that Chihiro and Hakuryu secretly passed through when they secretly met, in this scene the characters are 2D hand-painted, but the flowers are rendered in 3D, looking real and beautiful.
In fact, the entire story of "Spirited Away" is produced using computer digital technology, using the original manual depiction of the scene at the beginning, and then scanning the finished artwork into the computer to present a three-dimensional sense of the background. Or use software algorithms in some bridge sections with characters moving fast to make the effect of pulling from far and near.
10. There was a dark shadow of a young girl on the platform of Numahara Station, some people say that it is the little girl in "Tomb of the Fireflies", who is standing here waiting for her brother. But in reality, it's a silhouette of a character in an anime about the tram that Miyazaki had planned to do.
11, there are many mysteries about the faceless man, the official did not announce the voice actor of this role, many people speculated that it may be Miyazaki himself or the producer Toshio Suzuki.
12. The inspiration for Spirited Away may have come from China. In 1997, Xu Ke once filmed an animation "Xiao Qian" and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Animation that year.
If you look at it, you will find that "Spirited Away" has many similarities with it. For example, the design and atmosphere of Ruolan Temple are similar to the ghost town in "Spirited Away", and the reincarnation train is similar to Chihiro's ghost train, and even the plot sections are similar.
In fact, Xu Ke and Miyazaki have known each other for a long time and have a cooperative relationship, and Xu Ke has also served as the voice director of the Hong Kong version of "Valley of the Wind". Originally, Miyazaki planned the next animation set in Hong Kong in Castle in the Sky, and intended to cooperate with Xu Ke, but in the end it was not realized.
Although the two failed to work together directly, Miyazaki assisted in the production of "Xiao Qian" by Xu Ke - the pre-production of "Xiao Qian" was mainly based on Miyazaki's first assistant, and teruya Endo, the performance assistant of "Totoro", served as the character animation director of "Xiao Qian". Although he did not participate in the production, Miyazaki must have seen "Xiao Qian" and is likely to have referred to it and got inspiration from it. Therefore, "Spirited Away" and "Xiao Qian" will have such a high degree of similarity.
(The content information comes from the Internet)