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Originally, Princess Mononoke was meant to be Hayao Miyazaki's swan song, but much to the delight of the anime world, he returned with a film that managed to top Princess Mononoke's staggering box-office numbers. This film, Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting-Away), is a symbolic and folkloric adventure film about a girl who enters the world of spirits. Comparable to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she has to navigate a place that adheres only to its own odd rules if she wishes to leave safely.Chihiro Ogino (Rumi Hiiragi), a sullen young girl unwillingly moving to a new town, is stranded in the spirit world after her parents (Takeshi Naito and Yasuko Sawaguchi) stop by what appears to be an abandoned amusement park and eat food that turns them into pigs. At first, her only aid is Haku (Miyu Irino), a mysterious boy who finds her shelter and a job in a bathhouse that caters to these spirits. Eventually, Chihiro makes more friends as she searches for a way to make her parents human again and escape the spirit world before she forgets her real identity. And that's all just within the first 30(ish)-minutes of the movie—and that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the odd denizens of the spirit world, ranging from the villainous bathhouse managing witch Yubaba (Mari Natsuki) to arachnid worker Kamajii (Bunta Sugawara) to the enigmatic, near-voiceless spirit No-Face (Akio Nakamura).The film also stars Tsunehiko Kamijo as Chichiyaku and Takehiko Ono as the Aniyaku.Spirited Away was released in its home country on July 20, 2001, and an English dub conducted by Disney came to the United States on September 20, 2002.The film was an immediate hit in both Japan and America, and was the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time for almost two decades, grossing a total of 31.68 billion yen ($304.2 million), until it was topped by Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train in 2020. It also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, making it the first traditionally animated film, anime film, and non-English-language animated film to do so. This victory was especially noteworthy as the Oscars tend to favor CGI and/or American productions. It would hold the record of being the only anime film to win the Oscar in that category until Miyazaki won again for 2023’s The Boy and the Heron.In 2019, Spirited Away was granted a re-release in Chinese theaters, and managed to outgross the opening box office of the then-newly-released Toy Story 4, even with it being an 18-year-old film at the time.A 2022 Screen-to-Stage Adaptation premiered in Tokyo, under the direction of English stage director John Caird. It is notably the third Ghibli film to receive a stage adaptation, following Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke. It was released theatrically in North America on April 23-27 by GKIDS (the current North American distributor of Studio Ghibli's library).Not to be confused with the Australian TV show Spirited, the 1974 film Swept Away, that film's 2002 remake/Madonna vehicle, the 2012 fanfic, or the DreamWorks film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
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Dub Species Change: The English translation of the artbook for the movie refers to Lin as a weasel spirit, rather than a fox one like in the Japanese version.
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Rescue Romance
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Rescue Romance: Chihiro and Haku since he is her Mysterious Protector and it's revealed that he saved Chihiro when she fell into a river as a child.
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Parents in Distress
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Parents in Distress: Chihiro's parents are cursed during the beginning of the movie. Most of the plot revolves around her finding a way to free them, while also getting acquainted with the Spirit World.
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Monster and the Maiden
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Monster and the Maiden: A human girl named Chihiro befriends and works with Haku, a Nature Spirit who can turn into a dragon. Haku looks out for Chihiro while she works to get her parents back, and in exchange, she breaks the curse Yubaba and Zeniba placed on him.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: No-Face could be described as having a Noh◊ face, though only in English. Yubaba's son, Boh, is roughly twice her height, yet he's still an infant both physically and mentally. In other words, he's a big baby.
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End of an Age
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End of an Age: A subtle one about cultural traditions eroding: Chihiro doesn't recognize roadside shrines or understand the traditional etiquette, and the formerly two-way Afterlife Express now goes only one direction. The image album has the workers lament that fewer and fewer gods show up every year, as they're slowly dying out, and "there are no gods in electric things".
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The Stoic
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The Stoic: Haku, when he's not with Chihiro. He doesn't even bat an eyelid when Yubaba breathes fire at him.
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Bishōnen
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Haku is a male example in his usual form, a young, Bishōnen boy about Chihiro's age; in his true form, he's a dragon.
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Watch Out for That Tree!
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Watch Out for That Tree!: After all but flying down a staircase, Chihiro runs straight into a wall at the end.
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Voluntary Shapeshifting
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Several characters portray this ability, such as Yubaba's ability to turn into a crow-like creature, and Haku's alternate form as a dragon.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: Yubaba is a very unpleasant old lady, but only curses Chihiro because she's basically constrained to carry out her role by her job.
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Wainscot Society
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Wainscot Society: The spirit community doesn't appear to be in very regular contact with the human world — but nonetheless, Muggles can fall into it by just wandering into the wrong abandoned amusement park.
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In the Name of the Moon
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In the Name of the Moon: Haku's incantation to un-paralyze Chihiro's legs.
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Chekhov's Boomerang
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Chekhov's Boomerang: The medicine from the water god helps cure Haku from his injuries and free No-Face from all the food (and people) he has eaten.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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You can't tell in English, but Chihiro's parents should really have known better than to eat in a "park" where the signs advertise such foods as "dog" and "eyeball". Not to mention that they really should have waited to pay before digging in, and they kept insisting that there was nothing weird or supernatural about the 'park'. It's pretty easy even for someone who doesn't read or speak Japanese to tell that there's something very strange about all this. It can be theorized that the enchantments on the food are probably what caused them to gorge themselves, though they still fell for the Schmuck Banquet big time.
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All There in the Script
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Boh's name is never mentioned in the English dub, but the credits still refer to him by his name.
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Ambiguously Human
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Ambiguously Human: Some of the spirits have a human like appearance to them, with some such as Lin and Haku, looking nigh distinguishable from normal humans. However, even the more human-like spirits have traits and attributes (subtle or otherwise) that make it clear that they're not really human.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The farewell card given to Chihiro helps her remember her name after Yubaba stole it.
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Parents Know Their Children: Inverted. To rescue her parents, Chihiro must pick them out of a line-up of several dozen other pigs. She correctly determines that none of the pigs are her parents.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The "lesson" that No-Face learns from the bathhouse residents. Chihiro teaches him a lesson when she refuses his gold. Chihiro's parents at the buffet. "Daddy's got credit cards and cash!" However, this may not entirely count given that they mention that they can pay the bill when the workers get back. It's her father's blind faith in cash that gets everyone in trouble. After all, he's assuming the price is paper money or credit.
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Unfolding Plan Montage: When instructing Chihiro how to get to Kamaji, Haku touches her forehead and we see a preview of the path ahead.
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Funny Background Event: Lin is a little annoyed that Yubaba doesn't compliment her after they help the stink spirit.
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Holding Hands
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Holding Hands: Chihiro and Haku do a lot of this, complete with Intertwined Fingers. It's most appropriate considering their young age.
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Dark World
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Dark World: The carnival site after dark becomes a hub for spirits and gods. By extension, Dark Is Not Evil (most of the time, at least).
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Loss of Identity: Yubaba steals the names of anyone who works for her, thus taking their memories of their past and their real name. Even Chihiro, who was in the spirit world for a day, had nearly forgotten her name until reminded. In fact, Haku is trying to free himself from Yubaba's contract by remembering who he is as well. But for some reason, he was only able to recall Chihiro.
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Ghost Town
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Ghost Town: At first. By day, the bath house and surrounding village look like an abandoned amusement park. The spirits appear at night.
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Missing Child: The moment where Chihiro gets trapped in the spirit world with her family having changed into pigs. She runs through the food stalls in a strange place, desperately calling for her parents. Chihiro deals with some pretty grown-up situations while maturing as a person.
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Frog Men
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Frog Men: Yubaba's male servants range from somewhat froggish-looking humanoid men to complete frogs.
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Gratuitous English: In the original Japanese-language version, Kamaji says "Good luck!" in English to Chihiro as she leaves the boiler room to seek a job from Yubaba.
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Enigmatic Minion
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Enigmatic Minion: Haku is bound to Yubaba's service but helps Chihiro whenever no one else is around to see.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Though unintentional, when Yubaba first glimpses Boh as a mouse, she fails to recognize her son and only sees a rodent and adds an insult. With only his eyes, Boh clearly expresses his hurt and then anger at his mom. After this, Boh and Yubaba's servant-bird both stick with Chihiro.
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Gentle Giant
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Gentle Giant: The Great Radish Spirit is gigantic, but also seems gentle and supportive (through body language—he's not a talker).
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Food Chains
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Food Chains: Chihiro's parents should know better than to eat food that doesn't belong to them in a fairy tale. Chihiro, however, must eat a morsel of the Spirit World's food in order to avoid fading away, binding her to the realm just enough to keep her solid.
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Directionless Driver: Chihiro's father loses his way, which is what brings the family to the derelict amusement park.
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Actor Allusion: "I'll miss you, Chihiro. Your best friend, Rumi." (In the Japanese version, Chihiro was voiced by Rumi Hiiragi.)
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Tomboyish Ponytail: Chihiro wears a ponytail combined with sidetails.
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Though taking place in a fantasy world full of wonder, much of the story is Chihiro suffering through her job at the bathhouse, lonely and yearning for her parents. The cynicism leans more towards the idealistic end of the scale near the end, wherein Chihiro finds a newfound determination to survive and do whatever it takes to help Haku and her parents.
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: Chihiro yells at her parents to keep away from the abandoned amusement park and not eat the food that's out there because she's getting the creeps. They ignore her since she's been bratty during the drive. Surprise, surprise, the bathhouse is a portal to the spirit world and the enchanted food turns them into pigs! Say what you will about Chihiro, but she has good instincts.
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Character Development: Chihiro starts the story as a sullen, moody preteen not wanting to face change. Then she starts working at the bathhouse, makes friends, and rescues Haku from Zeniba. By the end, she's much more appreciative of her parents and responsible for her actions. The English dub goes further by the last line of the film saying, "I think I can handle it" about her new school.
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Muggle in Mage Custody
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Muggle in Mage Custody: The ordinary girl Chihiro becomes a de facto slave to the powerful witch Yubaba, working for her in her bathhouse for spirits.
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The Greatest Story Never Told
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The Greatest Story Never Told: After Chihiro's parents are turned back into humans, they have absolutely no recollection of what happened and thus have no idea what their daughter went through in order to save them. Chihiro might have kept her memories and be the only one (in human world, at least) who knows the truth, and even if she does, we may safely assume that nobody is going to believe her.
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Captain Obvious
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Captain Obvious: Chihiro says a few obvious things in the Japanese version. The English dub added several more examples, albeit some ("It's a bathhouse," for example) were added for clarity for a non-Japanese audience (a Japanese audience, even if they didn't recognize what the bathhouse was by its appearance, would be able to read the sign above its entrance identifying what it was).
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Bad Black Barf
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Bad Black Barf: No-Face starts coughing and drooling black barf (among other things) after being given medicine from Chihiro.
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Secret Test of Character
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Despite being quite unsympathetic as an antagonist, wanting to turn Chihiro's family into pigs and all, Yubaba turns out to be reasonable as well. She makes Chihiro work as hard as the rest of the other workers, who have years of labor behind them, but sees that she has potential. Yubaba senses that the Stink Spirit is something more, and orders Chihiro to clean him as a Secret Test of Character; when Chihiro says he needs help because something is stuck in his side, Yubaba orders all the bathhouse employees to help Chihiro pull out the "thorn" (actually a lot of garbage) from the spirit, cleaning it, unveiling its true form as a river dragon, and leaving them with piles of gold. She then hugs Chihiro and says So Proud of You for figuring out what was wrong. At the end, she agrees with Haku to give Chihiro one last test to earn her parents and freedom back, and honors her word when Chihiro passes with flying colors.
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Spirited Young Lady
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Spirited Young Lady: Like some of Miyazaki's other female protagonists, Chihiro is a modern version of this trope. Outwardly, she is everything a well-brought-up girl should be, but she is not exactly poised or well-mannered. She is understandably upset when she and her parents have to move to Tochinoki, is supposedly traumatized by her mom and dad turning into pigs, has to be a virtual slave to a powerful witch and has to fight for her life in a dangerous and unfamiliar world of magic. When Haku is being attacked by Zeniba's paper airplanes, she loses all her "spoiled little rich girl" qualities and battles against all of the odds to save his life.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Chihiro restores her parents to human form and returns to the real world, but it's implied that memories of the spirit world promptly leave her mind afterward, and she won't be able to see Haku again. Once implied by Miyazaki that Chihiro and Haku wouldn't meet again until her death. The American ending also hints that Chihiro will remember some of her adventure; when her father remarks starting life in a new home and school can be scary, Chihiro replies, "I think I can handle it," suggesting that she's maintaining her memories (or at least the confidence she gained from her trip to the spirit world).
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Body Wipe
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Body Wipe: Near the beginning with Chihiro's dad, when he found the restaurant with the source of a delicious smell.
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Magically-Binding Contract
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Magically-Binding Contract: How Yubaba employs people for her bathhouse—she literally rips their signature from the paper.
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You Are a Credit to Your Race
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You Are a Credit to Your Race: Yubaba doesn't like humans at all, and at their first meeting she shows tremendous contempt for Chihiro. However, by the time Chihiro has proven herself several times over and insists on facing Yubaba's challenge fair and square, the old ogress admits her uppity servant has courage and determination.
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Emotion Eater
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Emotion Eater: Word of God has stated that the reason No-Face went crazy is that he feeds on the emotions of those around him, and that their Greed corrupted him. Good thing it wasn't permanent.
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Butt-Monkey: The little green frog. He is magicked by Haku, he faints when the Stink Spirit gets too close, and then he is eaten by No-Face.
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I Want My Mommy!
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I Want My Mommy!: Played for Drama. When her parents turn into pigs, Chihiro is in denial. She starts running through the stalls, calling for them. Her panic increases with the lack of response. The English version takes it further by having her break down and scream, "MOMMY!" No, it doesn't help that her actress was actually a kid, Daveigh Chase.
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Humans Are Smelly
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The other bath-house workers complain about Chihiro's human stench potentially driving away customers. Once Chihiro, now known as Sen, is employed, Madame Yubaba tells the workers to stop complaining, as Sen will soon stop smelling like a human, and in the meantime, they're stuck with her because Madame Yubaba is honor-bound to give Sen the employment that she asked for.
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Scenery Porn
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Scenery Porn: This movie is chock full of it, as can be expected from anything by Miyazaki—the fantastical and finely detailed architecture of the bathhouse is given the most attention.
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Gold Fever
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Gold Fever: All of the employees at the bathhouse go crazy trying to pick up the gold No-Face drops, although it turns out to not be enough to cover the damage he causes in the end. Not to mention that it turns out to be made of dirt.
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Polar Opposite Twins
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Polar Opposite Twins: Zeniba and Yubaba might look exactly alike, but couldn't be more different in personality. Zeniba is nice and grandmotherly but is clearly capable of anger and retribution, while Yubaba is a nasty old woman who is still a Reasonable Authority Figure.
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: Chihiro's parents turning away from their Schmuck Banquet to reveal they've been turned into pigs. It's at this point both Chihiro and the audience realize things have turned From Bad to Worse, and that she won't be leaving the area anytime soon.
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?:
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Chihiro's parents eat food that has been left out in the open in unattended booths (that look just like food service stalls) and are fully willing to pay for it if an owner appears. So naturally they deserve to be turned into pigs, right? (Of course, Humans might consider it Disproportionate Retribution, but seeing as this is a common theme in stories among fairies and spirits, such beings apparently do not.)
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The film begins and ends with Chihiro clutching her mother's arm while they follow her father through a tunnel. Her mother even tells Chihiro to stop clutching at her—that she'll make her fall.
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Karmic Transformation
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Karmic Transformation: For Chihiro's parents when their gluttony gets them transformed into pigs.
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Down the Rabbit Hole
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Down the Rabbit Hole: The long, dark tunnel Chihiro's family passes through into the spirit world.
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Nature Spirit
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Nature Spirit: Most of the creatures in the spirit world qualify, with the notable example of the river spirit Chihiro assists.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: This movie has an unusually subtle one for Miyazaki: a "stink spirit" comes to visit the bathhouse, and the bathhouse workers try to turn him away because he is so rank. The "stink spirit" is actually the spirit of a polluted river, and after Chihiro gives him a bath and, with others' help, de-pollutes him, Chihiro is rewarded with the medicine that later helps both Haku and No-Face. Also, the spirit of the Kohaku River (Haku) was enslaved and forgot his identity after that river was filled in by humans.
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Dark Is Not Evil: Quite a few spirits are friendly to Chihiro initially, most notably Haku, but also Lin and Kamaji, and a few others warm up to her and start to like her eventually (the crisis with No-Face seems to be the part where a lot of them start to do so) until the end, where almost all of them are trying to support her. And of course, there's No-Face itself, a rather terrifying Humanoid Abomination which craves Chihiro's friendship.
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Growing Up Sucks
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Growing Up Sucks: Subverted. Chihiro acts sulky at first, then becomes mature and resourceful as the film goes on. Or as the film goes on she is revealed to be more mature and resourceful than she appears.
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Central Theme
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Central Theme: The shock of entering adulthood. Chihiro is introduced dealing with moving away to a new city, a dilemma dwarfed by being alone in a hostile spirit world. The importance of names. Chihiro's name is turned to Sen when she's "hired" by Yubaba, and Haku forgot his name (the Kohaku River) when said river was built over. Both characters desire to get their "names", i.e. true lives and identities back.
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One-Book Author
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One-Book Author: YÅ«ko Ogino was Yasuko Sawaguchi's only anime voice-over role, as she's primarily a film/television actress and singer.
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Not Allowed to Grow Up
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Not Allowed to Grow Up: A supernatural reason for this one. It's implied that Yubaba's coddling of her son Boh is why he's literally a big baby.
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Big Eater
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Big Eater: Chihiro's parents, particularly her dad, have ravenous appetites—they are (appropriately) transformed into pigs to represent their gluttony. Boh eating chocolate, or rather the three heads transformed to look like him. Clearly they're taking advantage of replacing the spoiled-rotten kid. No-Face, who combines this with Extreme Omnivore (he swallows several people whole). When Chihiro finally faces him, it's in a room filled to the brim with mountains of food.
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Eccentric Mentor
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Eccentric Mentor: Yubaba's twin sister Zeniba is a friendly witch who offers some sage advice to Chihiro during her stay.
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Facial Façade
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Facial Façade: Implied with No-Face, who nominally has a white mask for a face. Given his name however (and the fact his mouth is located elsewhere) it is heavily implied the mask is just a rouse to lure in victims, and he is actually The Blank.
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Converse with the Unconscious
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Converse with the Unconscious: Chihiro tells the unconscious Haku that she was leaving for some time (to return the golden seal to Zeniba) and that he had to get better. Later when Haku wakes up, he reveals to Kamaji that he heard Chihiro's voice and followed it until he woke up.
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Image Song
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Image Song: Yes, an image album exists, but only in Japan.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Yubaba genuinely cares about her enormous baby. She spoils him rotten and loses it when she discovers he's missing.
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Disneyfication
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Disneyfication: Less so than most in that trope, but in addition to Alice in Wonderland, the film is also partially a Lighter and Softer version of the rather grisly Japanese fairy tale "Shita-kiri Suzume".
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Chain of People
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Likewise, Chihiro does all she can to help the stink spirit clean up, using the tokens that No-Face gave her. As she gets stuck in its mud, the spirit saves her from drowning and shows her a thorn in its side. Chihiro shouts that he needs help pulling it out, and she leads the Chain of People in using a rope to remove the thorn. This ends up cleaning the spirit, revealed to be a river god. The god lets her see its true form, gives her a medicinal cake, and tells her, "Well done."
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Author Appeal
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Author Appeal: A determined heroine, a flood, young love, flying sequences, precipitous heights, gorging on food, and pigs. Miyazaki also loves his environmental messages, which comes up twice through the film. The first instance of this is when Chihiro heals the river spirit after being heavily polluted and filled with garbage. The second is Chihiro realizing Haku is the spirit of the Kohaku River, which had been built over for years.
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Belly Mouth
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Belly Mouth: No-Face has one, which only becomes visible during his rampage and in a later scene where he is eating cake.
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Giant Flyer
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Giant Flyer: Haku in dragon form and the purified river spirit are huge, the former even being able to carry Chihiro near the film's ending. Yubaba can also drape herself in her cloak and fly like a very large bird. During the cleansing of the River Spirit, Yubaba demonstrates an ability to float in mid-air; given her enormous head, she might qualify for this trope.
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Expressive Hair
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Expressive Hair: Sen's hair tends to spike up whenever something startles her, or just freaks her out in general.
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Expressive Mask
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Expressive Mask: No-Face's mask to some extent; he seems to smile or frown sometimes. The artists noted that they wish they'd been able to rely on lighting a little more to set his mood instead.
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The Power of Love
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The Power of Love: Zeniba reveals that Haku could only have been saved from her spell by Chihiro's love for him. Strangely, this line does not exist in the Japanese version.
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Jerkass Has a Point: Even for a then spoiled kid, Chihiro has the right idea when she tells her parents not to eat the food they find in the abandoned town. After all, they didn't really know if they could afford to pay for even a portion of the food they ate. In this case, the price was too high.
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Loud Gulp
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Loud Gulp: When Chihiro has to pick out which of the pigs are her parents, she makes one of these to steel herself. One of the most notable examples is the very end of the film, where in the English dub we hear Chihiro commenting on how a new school doesn't seem that scary anymore. The Japanese original simply has the family drive off in silence, leaving us to wonder how much of her time in the spirit world Chihiro has retained - a much more subtle and ineffable ending.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Chihiro's name can be translated as "a thousand fathoms" or "ask a thousand questions". Chihiro's name is later "stolen" by Yubaba and she is given the more generic name Sen, which means only "a thousand." Essentially, Chihiro has been reduced from a person to a number in Yubaba's service, and according to Haku, she can only break free of it if she remembers her true name. Turns out Chihiro was the name of the real little girl upon whom Miyazaki based the character, like "Alice". Also, possibly by coincidence, the kanji characters left after Yubaba removes most of Chihiro's name resemble the English word "it". A further dehumanization. The movie itself: Sen to Chihiro, or "Sen and Chihiro", — two different people. No-Face, a featureless black spirit that literally has no face, only a mask to represent one. Haku, while having its own meaning, also sounds very close to the Japanese word for "100", Hyaku. This goes rather well with Chihiro's new name, Sen, meaning "1,000".
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"Everybody Helps Out" Denouement
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"Everybody Helps Out" Denouement: Although they are initially content to sit back and watch her suffer, the denizens of the bath house band together to help Sen with the stink monster. Later, a group of characters who were all originally hostile to Sen work together to make her a protective charm.
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Extreme Omnivore
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No-Face, who combines this with Extreme Omnivore (he swallows several people whole). When Chihiro finally faces him, it's in a room filled to the brim with mountains of food.
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I Gave My Word
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I Gave My Word: This actually happens twice in the span of ten minutes at the climax of the story. First, Boh tries to convince Yubaba to release Chihiro and her parents without testing Chihiro, and she almost considers it; however, Chihiro insists that she be tested, saying that a deal is a deal (even though she is not the one who actually made the deal). Second, Chihiro ends up passing the test, despite the fact that Yubaba made it extra tricky (she has to identify her parents in a large group of pigs and correctly guesses that it's none of them) and Yubaba keeps her end of the bargain by voiding her contract.
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Ocular Gushers
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Ocular Gushers: Chihiro cries quite a lot at first until she begins to grow up and take responsibility for herself. Then again, she is only 10 or 11, and is going through a pretty traumatic experience.
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When She Smiles
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When He Smiles: When Haku smiles, it's only around Chihiro. But when he does smile, boy does it light up his face.
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Because You Were Nice to Me
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Because You Were Nice to Me: Word of God states that this is the reason No-Face followed Sen around after she let him into the bath-house. It's also implied that this is why Kamaji was willing to help Chihiro out so much—she saved a Soot Spirit that struggled under the weight of his coal and finished the job for him, proving that she was both kindhearted and willing to work if provoked. Likewise, Chihiro does all she can to help the stink spirit clean up, using the tokens that No-Face gave her. As she gets stuck in its mud, the spirit saves her from drowning and shows her a thorn in its side. Chihiro shouts that he needs help pulling it out, and she leads the Chain of People in using a rope to remove the thorn. This ends up cleaning the spirit, revealed to be a river god. The god lets her see its true form, gives her a medicinal cake, and tells her, "Well done."
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Multi-Armed Multitasking
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Multi-Armed Multitasking: Kamaji, the spider spirit, runs the bath house's boiler room without any help from the other employees. He uses his six arms to simultaneously stoke the boiler, collect ingredients from the many drawers in the wall behind him, grind them to powder, and mix them into herbal blends to add to the bathwater. The only thing he can't do himself is feed coal into the boiler; for that, he enchants soot into little spirit-balls who toss the coal in for him.
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Spirit World
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Spirit World: The world on the other side of the abandoned theme park is a city of spirits, bustling through the streets and visiting the bathhouse.
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Cathartic Crying
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Cathartic Crying: When Haku shows Chihiro her parents as pigs, reminds her of her real name and then offers her something to eat in an isolated part of the spirit town, she begins eating and then just starts bawling her heart out at all the accumulated trauma. Notably she is mentally a lot healthier and hopeful afterwards.
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No One Gets Left Behind
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No One Gets Left Behind: Played With. When Haku tells Chihiro to leave before it gets dark, she goes back for her parents. Then she sees they're turned into pigs, but is unwilling to believe it. She runs through the road for a while calling for her parents, before trying to cross the river alone. Haku then tells her she has to save her parents by getting a job with Kamaji, and Yubaba.
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Headbutt of Love
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Headbutt of Love: Chihiro and Haku touch forehead while free-falling through the sky.
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Named by the Dub
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Named by the Dub: Somewhat inverted twice: Boh's name is never mentioned in the English dub, but the credits still refer to him by his name. Yu-Bird, AKA Haeldori, is never referred to by name in the English dub and is just called "that bird".
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Magical Land
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Magical Land: The bath-house borders two worlds—the human world (which can be reached by going across the dry riverbed by day), and the world of the kami (which can be reached by taking a ferry across the still-flowing river by night). The latter is a Magical Land.
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: No-Face. Terribly lonely, he took a liking to Chihiro when she offered him kindness and let him into the bathhouse. Unfortunately, something about said bathhouse led him to become an ever-growing monster eating everything in sight and becoming more and more obsessed with Chihiro.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If Chihiro's parents hadn't explored that abandoned amusement park, and gotten tempted by the strange food, they might not have stranded themselves and their daughter in the spirit world. Chihiro lets No-Face into the bathhouse, which leads to him wreaking havoc after she rejects his gold. Chihiro then lures him out while going to Zeniba to see Haku. Played with. Chihiro already knows the power of names and how they can break spells. She reveals Haku's true name to him while they're at cruising altitude, and the dragon reverts to human form. Luckily, he can fly in that form, too.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: After Haku gives Chihiro the berry to stop her from disappearing and to prove that it worked, they gently touch hands. It's a fast blink-and-you-miss moment but Haku's tender expression quickly reveals to the audience that he isn't as cold as he appears to be.
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Small Role, Big Impact
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Small Role, Big Impact: Aogaeru, the frog spirit; while he only has a handful of lines, it’s his greed that ultimately corrupts No-Face, initiating a major conflict later in the film.
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Pun
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Later, Yubaba spitefully claims she's going to punish Chihiro for leaving her post (even under the circumstances of luring away Noh Face) by having her piggish parents slaughtered and made into food. At hearing this, her employees are rather disturbed to hear she would do this. Thank goodness for Haku's bargaining chip.
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Interspecies Romance
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Interspecies Romance: Chihiro and Haku. She's a human girl and he's a river spirit/dragon.
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The Fair Folk
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The Fair Folk: The whole film (and amusement park) is built around a traditional Fairy Tale portrayal of Youkai.
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Plucky Girl
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A determined heroine, a flood, young love, flying sequences, precipitous heights, gorging on food, and pigs.
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Stating the Simple Solution
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Stating the Simple Solution: When her family first enters the spirit world, they cross over a dried-up river. Haku shouts at Chihiro to get across the river before sunset, or she'll be stuck. Chihiro does try, but it gets dark all too quickly and the dry-river fills up with water, too deep for her to wade across. There's also the problem of her parents being turned into pigs, since she can't and won't leave them behind.
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Tightrope Walking
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Tightrope Walking: Chihiro has to do this on a thin metal pipe outside to reach a far ladder overlooking the deep water below. At the end, however, she is absolutely terrified when she makes it.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: When Chihiro's parents cross through the tunnel and come out on the other side, they remark that the ruins must belong to an abandoned amusement park. Mrs. Ogino explains to Chihiro that the park was probably one made before the giant recession in Japan and thus it's a relic. Chihiro isn't impressed because this whole place is giving her bad vibes. Then they go further across a dried river...and it turns out the rest of the plot happens at the bathhouse that Chihiro spots!
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Filling the Silence
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Filling the Silence: Quite a bit in the English dub, with background chatter added to otherwise quiet scenes and a few ad-libbed lines thrown in.
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Cute Clumsy Girl
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Cute Clumsy Girl: Chihiro often trips, stumbles, and crashes through the spirit world, though she gets better in time. Whereas she all but flies down the wooden staircase in the beginning, she later manages to run across a pipe as it crumbles.
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Stalker with a Crush
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Stalker Without a Crush: No-Face may qualify as this for Chihiro.
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Always Identical Twins
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Always Identical Twins: Yubaba's eventually revealed to have a twin sister named Zeniba—they look exactly alike, but are also the closest things that the movie has to a Big Bad and a Big Good, respectively.
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Half the Man He Used to Be
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Half the Man He Used to Be: A non-lethal example; when Dragon Haku destroys Zeniba's enchanted shikigami, her projection cartoonishly splits in half before fading away.
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The Speechless
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The Radish Spirit is a big, floppy, vaguely obscene-looking example of this trope — as well as The Speechless and Gentle Giant. On the other hand, he doesn't suffer the social ostracism usually associated with The Grotesque.
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Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold
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Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Actually, two of them. Despite initial impressions, neither Yubaba nor Zeniba are all that evil. Neither is No-Face, who is seen only by himself, and tells Chihiro/Sen that he is lonely and doesn't have any friends or family.
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White Mask of Doom
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White Mask of Doom. No-Face is first encountered as a partial black cloak and a white mask. Later his body grows a horrible maw, jarring with the lost-child-in-pain expression of the mask.
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: No-Face is given an emetic dumpling by Chihiro, sending him into a rampage that ends with the bathhouse being covered top to bottom with his vomit. Yubaba gets the worst of it, however.
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Take a Third Option
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Take a Third Option: At the end, Chihiro is shown a dozen pigs, and has to choose which two among them are her parents in order to free them and herself. Her choice? Her parents aren't in there.
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Recycled Trailer Music
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Recycled Trailer Music: One of the Japanese trailers for the movie uses the song "The Lost Paradise" from the American soundtrack of Castle in the Sky.
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Heroic Bystander
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Heroic Bystander: Believe it or not, the Soot Spirits get to be this! When Yubaba's cursing slug tries to escape, the little balls of soot team up to block their tunnels, keeping the creature from getting away and allowing Chihiro to kill it.
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Giant Spider
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Giant Spider: Judging by his eight limbs, Kamaji seems to be a spider youkai. He might also be an opilione, also known as harvestmen or daddy longlegs.
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Blush Sticker
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Blush Sticker: Chihiro has these throughout the entire film.
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Schmuck Banquet
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Schmuck Banquet: Chihiro's parents can't help but eat the food at the beginning. Chihiro resists it because she senses something is wrong with the place.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: The cleansed river spirit moves in a sinuous, looping way that is reminiscent of flowing water after he is outside of the bath house, which Haku's dragon form also emulates in flight; only natural, since Haku himself turns out to be a river spirit. When the Stink Spirit first appears, Yubaba finds its behavior familiar and suspects there is more too it than it appears, a suspicion that is proven right when its Muck Monster body is revealed to be an outer-shell for a dragon-like River Spirit. This makes sense because she has encountered a very similar spirit before: Haku. Chihiro's father can be heard snorting as he eats (in the English dub at least) which works as subtle foreshadowing to him and Chihiro's mother getting turned into pigs.
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Muck Monster
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Muck Monster: The bathhouse is visited by an incredibly stinky spirit that resembles an enormous pile of sludge. It turns out that the visitor is actually the spirit of a river that has been badly polluted by garbage.
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The Dissenter Is Always Right
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The Dissenter Is Always Right: Chihiro and her parents come across an abandoned amusement park. They come across a spread of freshly made food and the parents start digging in. Chihiro says they shouldn't because they might get in trouble, but they don't pay her any mind and continue eating. This turns them into pigs because the food was meant for spirits.
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Forgotten First Meeting
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Forgotten First Meeting: Haku, a river spirit, saved Chihiro when she fell into the river as a child. Chihiro remembers this only when they're flying through the sky together near the end of the film, which causes Haku to remember his identity too.
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Indirect Kiss
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Indirect Kiss: Chihiro bites the medicine ball in half before feeding it to Haku. She may have been trying to show Haku that it was safe to eat, or simply didn't have the strength to break a very hard piece of medicine with her hands as opposed to her jaw.
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Award-Bait Song
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Award-Bait Song: "Itsumo Nando Demo" (Always With Me) by Youmi Kimura. It was originally written for Rin the Chimney Sweeper, but that project fell through. Miyazaki listened to the song constantly while working on Spirited Away. It's also missing some key elements of an Award Bait Song, most notably the lack of "sparkly" synth.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: There are quite a few moments: Chihiro leaves her parents when they start eating the food. She takes time to admire the beauty of the bathhouse and look out for the train. Haku appears, goes Oh, Crap! and tells her to run across the river before it's too late. When Chihiro goes to find her parents, she finds out they turned into pigs, and a strange spirits have arrived. Chihiro freaks out, calls for her parents, and ends up in a Troubled Fetal Position when she can't make it across the river. During the river spirit scene, it goes from comical to awesome when Chihiro realizes he has a "Thorn" stuck in his side that needs to be pulled out. Then a lot of garbage comes out, revealing a wizened smiling face who thanks Chihiro and rewards her.
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MacGuffin
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MacGuffin: Chihiro leaves the bathouse to returns Zeniba's figure to her in hopes that she can help Haku in turn.
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Adults Are Useless
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Adults Are Useless: Chihiro's parents see nothing peculiar about a whole city on the other side of an abandoned tunnel being completely empty despite fresh food being put out. Despite their daughter's protests, they decide to just sit and eat while Chihiro wanders around by herself. Unfortunately for them, the food was intended for gods and spirits, so they were turned into pigs as punishment.
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Eaten Alive
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Eaten Alive: Happens to three of the bathhouse employees after No-Face goes nuts. Fortunately, Chihiro's medicine makes him cough them up. (Along with everything else he's eaten, much of which he spits up on Yubaba.)
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No-Sell
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Yubaba gets a good one after No-Face No Sells her fireball. Just before she's engulfed in a wave of vomit.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Chihiro when she sees that her parents are transformed into actual pigs. Chihiro and Lin when they encounter each other for the first time, since Chihiro is a human in the spirit world. Yubaba gets a good one after No-Face No Sells her fireball. Just before she's engulfed in a wave of vomit. Yubaba gets another one when she's told that Boh is with her sister Zeniba.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Most of Lin's lines are sarcastic or snide, especially when talking to Kamaji or when she's at first apathetic to Sen.
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Fish out of Water
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Fish out of Water: Humans like Chihiro are detested in the spirit world, partly because they smell funny to kami (spirits).
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What You Are in the Dark
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What You Are in the Dark: Towards the beginning, when Chihiro and her parents find the abandoned restaurant, they have either two ways to respond to the situation at hand. On one hand, Chihiro's parents have a moment of weakness when they let even a little greed and hunger tempt them to help themselves to the food before they've even paid. On the other hand, Chihiro refuses to partake the food, even at her own parents behest, because she recognizes they'll get in trouble for eating without permission from the restaurant's owners. Three guesses as to which party had the right idea.
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Digital Destruction
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Digital Destruction: The first DVD release of Spirited Away in Japan had a red tint added to it.
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Gluttonous Pig: Chihiro's parents turn into pigs after gorging themselves on the spirits' food. Kind of justified: they are eating food made for gods in a territory where gods gather night by night...
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Loophole Abuse
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Loophole Abuse: As noted above, Yubaba is magically bound to hire anyone who repeatedly asks her for a job. However, she's free to distract, insult, or even physically assault the potential employee; that person has to remain completely focused on requesting employment to counteract this.
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Coming of Age Story
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Coming of Age Story: At the start of the film, Chihiro comes off as a lost, yet hardheaded little girl. Her experiences in the spirit world help her break out of her shell and shape her into a polite, confident young woman.
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Take Away Their Name
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Take Away Their Name: The witch Yubaba magically enslaves her employees stealing their names, thus taking their memories of their past and their real name. She gives them new names, to avoid nameless confusion. They can only get free of her if they remember their real name. Yubaba has gone further than taking away names and giving new ones, as the Meaningful Rename trope shows. Chihiro's new "name" isn't really a name at all - it's a number.
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No OSHA Compliance: The bathhouse has a steep, rickety wooden stair along the outside of the building, overlooking a deep trench. Chihiro's lucky she slid straight down... into a wall.
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Don't Look Back
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Don't Look Back: Chihiro is instructed not to look back when leaving the Spirit World. She nearly turns when she's almost left, but with the sparkling of Zeniba's magic hairband, resists the temptation.
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Trapped in Another World: Chihiro's parents ate food intended for spirits, and are turned into pigs as punishment. To help them, Chihiro must work at the bathhouse under Yubaba's rule. Until she can succeed, Chihiro and her parents are stuck in the spirit world.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: You can't tell in English, but Chihiro's parents should really have known better than to eat in a "park" where the signs advertise such foods as "dog" and "eyeball". Not to mention that they really should have waited to pay before digging in, and they kept insisting that there was nothing weird or supernatural about the 'park'. It's pretty easy even for someone who doesn't read or speak Japanese to tell that there's something very strange about all this. It can be theorized that the enchantments on the food are probably what caused them to gorge themselves, though they still fell for the Schmuck Banquet big time. Most of the bathhouse employees, who cheerfully serve No-Face without even questioning where he's from, even though he just pops up in the middle of the night and mysteriously speaks with the voice of another employee. Yubaba later curses their stupidity over letting No-Face in, suggesting that they ought to have recognized the threat he potentially posed.
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My Beloved Smother
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My Beloved Smother: Yubaba, who keeps her baby sheltered in a room and relentlessly indulges him, producing a Spoiled Brat.
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Shadow Archetype
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Shadow Archetype: Boh acts as this for Chihiro, representing what would she be like if she never encountered the Spirit World.
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Blood from the Mouth
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Blood from the Mouth: Haku due to the effects of Zeniba's curse. Makes sense since Kamaji says he is bleeding from the inside.
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Stink Snub
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Stink Snub: The other bath-house workers complain about Chihiro's human stench potentially driving away customers. Once Chihiro, now known as Sen, is employed, Madame Yubaba tells the workers to stop complaining, as Sen will soon stop smelling like a human, and in the meantime, they're stuck with her because Madame Yubaba is honor-bound to give Sen the employment that she asked for. When the polluted river spirit approaches the bath-house, Madame Yubaba defies this trope and warns every employee to not react to the stench because a customer is a customer. No matter how difficult it will be to clean their customer, they still don't want to offend their customer.
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Forced Transformation
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Forced Transformation: Chihiro's parents and the other humans turned into pigs. They show no sign of being anything more than mud-rolling, omnivorous animals after. Zeniba turns Boh (Yubaba's son and Zeniba's nephew) and Yubaba's servant into a mouse and a tiny bird, respectively. When Chihiro later asks her to change them back, she says that the spell has worn off, and they can change back any time they want. (They don't choose to until later.)
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: After Chihiro has pried a job out of Yubaba, over relentless and vicious attempts to intimidate her out of asking, Yubaba laments her promise to employ anyone who asked for a job, as it makes her have to be so nice all the time and she really hates that.
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Youkai
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Youkai: Most of the background characters, being nature spirits of one form or another.
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: Big time. This was lampshaded by Cartoon Network's ads for it, which, after explaining how Chihiro got stuck in an alternate universe, her parents turned into pigs, and she sold her name to a "crazy witch lady", the narrator goes on to say, "And that's just the first twenty minutes!"
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Comforting Comforter
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Comforting Comforter: Kamaji does this when Chihiro falls asleep in the boiler room. Guess he's not such a bad guy after all. D'aaaw...
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Boy Meets Ghoul
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Boy Meets Ghoul: Chihiro, a normal everyday human girl, and Haku, a person of the spirit world (who turns out to be a river spirit).
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Dragon Rider
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Dragon Rider: Chihiro briefly gets to take a ride on the dragon Haku.
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Getting Eaten Is Harmless
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Getting Eaten Is Harmless: No-Face, after Chihiro feeds him the river spirit's medicine, throws up everything and everyone he ate. They are all none the worse for the experience.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles
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Needle in a Stack of Needles: The test at the end of the movie, where Chihiro has to find her parents hidden amongst other pigs. She correctly guesses that none of them are her parents, breaking the curse.
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Afterlife Express
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The Afterlife Express above is a shout out to Night on the Galactic Railroad (book or film).
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Shout-Out
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The birds in the bath-house with wide, staring eyes and leaves on their heads could be a Shout-Out or reference to My Neighbor Totoro as well.
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Word of God
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Word of God states that this is the reason No-Face followed Sen around after she let him into the bath-house.
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Generic Cuteness
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Generic Cuteness: Chihiro was designed specifically to avoid this trope. Hayao Miyazaki has complained about how a plain or unattractive male character can still be the star, but female characters all have to be cute to be the protagonist.
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No Mouth
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No Mouth: The Radish Spirit has no mouth and cannot talk. Not that he needs to.
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Spoiled Brat
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Spoiled Brat: Yubaba's baby spends his days in a room full of pillows and presumably eating as much as he pleases. Upon finding Chihiro, he threatens to break her arm if she doesn't play with him. Zeniba gets tired of him so quickly she transforms him into a mouse.
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Schmuck Bait
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Schmuck Bait: Subverted with the ending in which Chihiro is told not to look back when leaving. She almost does, but she has enough willpower not to.
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Come with Me If You Want to Live
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Come with Me If You Want to Live: Haku says something like this to Chihiro when she first enters the spirit world.
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I Know Your True Name
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I Know Your True Name: Yubaba binds people to her by stealing their names, and they can only get free of her if they remember their real name. The theft of her sister's gold seal is an attempt to steal her name as well.
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Hypocrite: Maybe unintentional, but when Chihiro first goes to Yubaba asking for a job, she initially refuses, saying that Chihiro is, "A spoiled, lazy crybaby and you have no manners!" and shortly after this is interrupted by her baby, who fits her description of Chihiro pretty much perfectly. Furthermore, she criticizes her employees for being greedy and attracting the wrong type of customer, when greed is pretty much her sole defining characteristic.
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Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
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Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: While it is not overtly said, the plot has hints that this is occurring during the film's events. The protagonist Chihiro and her parents end up trapped in the Spirit World when they stay at the abandoned amusement park before sunset, something that is commonly believed would happen to humans who happen upon the Hyakki Yagyo. The fact that it is set in an amusement park with food processions, in and out-going cruise ships and a fully-stocked bathhouse hints that this is occurring in the middle of a festival.
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Year Outside, Hour Inside
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Year Outside, Hour Inside: While the audience is never given an exact time scale for how long Chihiro was in the spirit world, the trope is heavily implied: when she returns to the living world, the car is dusty and the foliage around it has grown some. The car does start without a problem, however, so it can't have been more than a few days or weeks.
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Our Dragons Are Different
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Our Dragons Are Different: Haku a.k.a. Kohaku is in fact a river spirit. This makes sense since in Eastern mythology, dragons are more strongly associated with water than fire. As a dragon styled on Japanese myth, he has a wolf's head, feelers like a koi or catfish, antlers like a deer or elk, a serpentine body, and bird-like legs.
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The Magic Goes Away
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The Magic Goes Away: The spirit world, being mostly nature-associated, is being gradually hemmed in by redevelopment, with especially tragic consequences for river spirits. (Sadly true in reality, in that almost all rivers in Japan that go even remotely close to developed areas are turned into concrete troughs.) The Afterlife Express used to go both ways; now it only goes one.
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Cute Monster Girl
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Cute Monster Girl: Despite being a weasel spirit, Lin looks fully human; some fans have theorized she may have once, indeed, been human and in the same situation as Chihiro. Haku is a male example in his usual form, a young, Bishōnen boy about Chihiro's age; in his true form, he's a dragon.
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Puppy Love
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Puppy Love: Chihiro and Haku are both young, and though they are not an Official Couple, there's enough implication for this trope.
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Yubaba smokes a cigarette and exhales billowing clouds of smoke right into Sen's face. Her nicer sister Zeniba is not seen smoking.
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Red Herring
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Red Herring: The bathhouse being located at the end of an abandoned amusement park. Mrs. Ogino gives some exposition to Chihiro that the park was probably abandoned because of the recession probably so now it's just a lot with relics. The amusement park then disappears when Chihiro and her parents accidentally cross over into the spirit world and doesn't factor into the rest of the plot; Chihiro doesn't even remember what her mother said about it. The river spirit that Chihiro cleans gives her an herb cake, that she thinks she can use to change her parents back. She uses half the cake to save Haku from Zeniba's curse, and the rest to save No-Face from the bad influence of the bathhouse and the people he ate.
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High-Pressure Blood
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High-Pressure Blood: A small amount spouts out of the River Spirit after Sen pulls the last of the junk out of him.
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Reasonable Authority Figure
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Kamaji. Haku tells Chihiro to seek a job from him for this reason. Although Kamaji doesn't need Chihiro's help himself, he sees her pluck and spirit. So instead he bribes Lin into taking Chihiro to get a job directly from Yubaba. Later on, he helps her when Haku falls into the boiler room and is bleeding heavily. Despite being quite unsympathetic as an antagonist, wanting to turn Chihiro's family into pigs and all, Yubaba turns out to be reasonable as well. She makes Chihiro work as hard as the rest of the other workers, who have years of labor behind them, but sees that she has potential. Yubaba senses that the Stink Spirit is something more, and orders Chihiro to clean him as a Secret Test of Character; when Chihiro says he needs help because something is stuck in his side, Yubaba orders all the bathhouse employees to help Chihiro pull out the "thorn" (actually a lot of garbage) from the spirit, cleaning it, unveiling its true form as a river dragon, and leaving them with piles of gold. She then hugs Chihiro and says So Proud of You for figuring out what was wrong. At the end, she agrees with Haku to give Chihiro one last test to earn her parents and freedom back, and honors her word when Chihiro passes with flying colors.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: No-Face's first appearance is seemingly as just another "face" in a crowd of equally strange spirits. Once he's let into the bathhouse by Chihiro, he becomes a much more relevant character.
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Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
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Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: A hilarious scene in which Lin smuggles Chihiro aboard the bath house's upper elevator. She's stuck on it with the elephantine, Ugly Cute Radish Spirit. Since she's really not supposed to be in the bath-house at all and most of the other spirits have already expressed their revulsion for humanity, she's trying hard to brace for the worst while remaining unnoticed. (Not easy when the other passenger is so big that you're being squeezed against the side of the elevator.) Veeery awkward. Luckily, he's either kindly enough, mischievous enough, or apathetic enough to call nobody's attention to her.
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Culture Chop Suey
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Culture Chop Suey: The massive Scenery Porn of the bathhouse and the spirit world overflows with every imaginable and recognizable cultural and aesthetic detail of historical Japan from Feudal times all the way to mid-twentieth century Japan. (Purposefully excluded are any details of Samurai or soldiers.)
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Mama Bear
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Yubaba's son, Boh, who seems to be the only thing she cares about more than making money. When he goes missing, she goes full Mama Bear on Haku, complete with breath of fire.
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Mysterious Protector
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Mysterious Protector: Haku for most of the film. He's the only friendly face Chihiro has in the spirit world and constantly helps her, but he goes long periods without appearing and is tight-lipped about his motivations.
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Voice Changeling
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Voice Changeling: No-Face can perfectly imitate the voices of people he's just eaten. Otherwise, he's silent.
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Comfort Food
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Comfort Food: Onigiri is Japanese soul food; this is one of the reasons why Chihiro cries while eating one of these.
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Animal Motifs
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Animal Motifs: All the bathhouse workers are animal spirits. The frog spirits are particularly common, and easy to identify by their upturned lips and wide eyes. Lin is a weasel spirit who has a knack for sneaking out of trouble and nabbing food. Yubaba is a crow/raven who are known to be cunning, ominous and foretell death and destruction, such as Yubaba taking the names of her workers and "killing" their past selves so they can't remember who they are and thus are enslaved to her forever (unless they remember their name). The six-armed Kamaji, with his fuzzy mustache and black sunglasses, is a spider spirit.
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Karmic Jackpot
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Karmic Jackpot: For Haku and Chihiro mutually. Haku finds out that before he worked for Yubaba, he rescued Chihiro as a child from drowning when she fell into his river. At the bathhouse, he sets up Chihiro with Lin who is a Mama Bear, rescues her clothes and name, and protects her at every turn. Chihiro remembers his real name, defends him from Zeniba, and frees him from Yubaba's mind control, allowing him to regain his free will. Meanwhile, Chihiro is kind to everyone at the bathouse and runs to rescue Haku from Zeniba's paper birds, while following the rules and working hard. The River Spirit gives her medicine to heal Haku and No-Face, Kamaji gives her train tickets to return Zeniba's seal, and Haku bargains for her and her parents to return to the human world.
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Morality Pet
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Morality Pet: Yubaba's son, Boh, who seems to be the only thing she cares about more than making money. When he goes missing, she goes full Mama Bear on Haku, complete with breath of fire. Chihiro herself is also this to a number of characters. She brings out the best in the sarcastic Lin, the stoic Haku, and the grouchy Kamaji, and is the only one who cares for No-Face properly.
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Odd Job Gods
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Odd Job Gods: There are some pretty weird spirits in this world, such as the Radish Spirit, and the Stench Spirit. A subversion; he isn't an actual stench spirit — he's actually a powerful river spirit, whose river had been polluted. Still, this does suggest that Stench Spirits do exist somewhere.
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Hands Looking Wrong
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Hands Looking Wrong: After Chihiro has been in the spirit world too long, she starts to vanish, noticing that her hands are becoming translucent. Naturally, she starts to panic about this before Haku arrives and gives her some spirit food to insure that she won't disappear.
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Letterbox
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Letterbox: Disney included widescreen picture on the 2003 VHS, even though they rarely released widescreen videotapes of their own movies.
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Expy
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Expy: With all the explicit similarities to Alice in Wonderland, it is extremely likely that Yubaba is consciously inspired by the character of the Duchess. Both are old ladies, grotesquely deformed with gigantic heads, both mean and bad tempered and care immensely (in all the wrong ways) for a huge, spoiled baby who is actually happier to be transformed into a simpler creature. The Duchess, when first met, is grumpy and grouchy, but the second time, in the Queen of Hearts' party, she is almost uncomfortably friendly to Alice. Yubaba and Zeniba may not be the same person, but they do look the same and are exact opposites in terms of personality. She's also suspiciously similar to Juno from Beetlejuice: a grumpy old white woman from the spirit world who smokes a lot of cigarettes. Their voices even sound alike.
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Geas
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Geas: Yubaba swore an oath which makes her bound to employ people who ask her for a job. She doesn't like it, and, as detailed in Loophole Abuse below, tries to weasel her way out of hiring humans, but eventually concedes when Chihiro insists.
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Gonk
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Gonk: Yubaba, her baby, and her sister. There are two scenes with Yubaba nose-to-nose with normal (not super-deformed) characters, and her head is taller than Haku's head and torso combined. The Great Radish Spirit. Stubby little root-fingers, a face like conjoined elephant twins, and... radish nipples.
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Meaningful Rename
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Yubaba has gone further than taking away names and giving new ones, as the Meaningful Rename trope shows. Chihiro's new "name" isn't really a name at all - it's a number.
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Brain Bleach
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The Great Radish Spirit. Stubby little root-fingers, a face like conjoined elephant twins, and... radish nipples.
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Blue-and-Orange Morality
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: This being the spirit world, after all. Chihiro's parents are turned into pigs for the crime of eating food intended for the gods. The young Chihiro is left to fend for herself, and had it not been for her job, would likely be killed just for being human.
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The Grotesque
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The Grotesque: The silent spirit No-Face is shunned by everyone else except for Chihiro, who treats him with kindness. He later begins swallowing up spirits, which bloats him into a disgustingly obese, multi-limbed creature. Only medicine from Chihiro appeases him. The Radish Spirit is a big, floppy, vaguely obscene-looking example of this trope — as well as The Speechless and Gentle Giant. On the other hand, he doesn't suffer the social ostracism usually associated with The Grotesque.
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Cain and Abel
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Cain and Abel: Yubaba and Zeniba. Though the two of them look exactly alike, Yubaba is a manipulative, almost heartless overseer whose main concern (besides her son) is making as much money as possible. Zeniba, meanwhile, has a peaceful life in the forest and is nothing but friendly to Chihiro and the others.
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Resignations Not Accepted
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Resignations Not Accepted: Yubaba will employ anyone at her bathhouse who asks, but they must sign a contract that makes them forget their true name and binds them to service until they recall it.
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Food Porn
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Food Porn: Typical for films directed by Miyazaki, but this one begins with Chihiro's parents gorging on a banquet, in a scene that is designed to make viewers' mouths water. That being said, the film is bound to make your stomach turn later on, especially considering emetics are a major Chekhov's Gun.
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Evil Twin
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Evil Twin: Played with in the case of Yubaba and Zeniba. Zeniba claims that the two of them are opposites in every way. Zeniba did lay a curse on the seal Haku stole and threatens Chihiro to stay quiet, but she ultimately is a kind old woman compared to her much meaner and greedier twin.
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The Assimilator
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The Assimilator: After No-Face eats the green frog, he is able to speak using the frog's voice and even gains a pair of frog legs. He later loses these attributes after the river spirit's medicine causes him to barf the frog back up.
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Shoo the Dog
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Shoo the Dog: When Chihiro first meets Haku, he tells her she shouldn't be at at the bathhouse and to run across the river before sundown. The sun then goes down fast. He tells her to Get Out! while he distracts the spirits. Chihiro tries, but she can't rescue her parents and doesn't make it in time before the formerly-dry river becomes full.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: Based on the frontal shot of Chihiro's father's car during the opening credits, it would be obvious that it was an Audi even if the four-rings symbol wasn't holding pride of place in the middle of the grille. Lampshaded later when Chihiro asks her father if they're lost and he replies, "Don't worry, honey; Daddy's got four-wheel drive!" Whether the car's a 100 or a 200, it's definitely the quattro version.
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Shapeshifting
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Shapeshifting: Haku, a dragon, can transform into a human, and Yubaba into a birdlike creature. Zeniba turns Boh into a mouse. Also, in the Japanese version, it's explicitly stated that every worker in the bathhouse is a transformed animal spirit.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Chihiro has to go through some hardship to stay alive and save her loved ones. Working in the bathhouse, healing Haku, and being trapped by Yubaba (among other things) shapes her into a more mature and confident person along the way. The English dub ends with her reassuring her father that she can handle school, after that adventure.
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FeudalJapan
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