|| Tonari
no Totoro || Spirited Away || Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa
|| Kiki's Delivery Service ||
Actually I've watched this movie long long time ago but, again, due to my laziness collecting the screenshots and doing the review, I have to delay this project Y_Y. However, this time I will pay my debt. beforehand, thanx a bunch to aniki, for buying me the Ghibli DVDs. Sankyu!
[ Post Note from Inumako ]
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It's always been unpleasant for kids to move to a new residence, so
does it with Chihiro. This young girl feels resentful
with her new residence. Her parents tried to cheer her up but she
wasn't much enthusiastic about it. On the way to her new house, her
father tried a shortcut which leads them into a strange tunnel. Since
the car couldn't go further, Chihiro's parents decided to walk in
on foot. Chihiro wasn't delighted with her parents reckless act and
forced them get into the car and head back. But seeing her parents
fading into the tunnel she had no choice but to follow them.
The
tunnel was quite long till they finally found it's end and saw an
abandoned view-park. Chihiro was so amazed to see it, she had no idea
what she's seeing. Curiosity is human nature, so they walked on further
to know what is the place they newly found. Chihiro had already got
the creep even before she entered the tunnel, so she asked everyone
to return. But her parents didn't heed her and went further in, Chihiro's
father was so excited with his invention and decided to observe more.
As they crossed a dead river, Chihiro's father smells something delicious
and provokes everyone to find out its source.
Eventually they found a district of restaurants but no one seems to
live there. Empty stomach has led Chihiro's father to a restaurant
with a lot of delicious foods. Chihiro's parents decided to eat some
but Chihiro refused to do so. Instead, she wandered alone and found
a public bath-house. As she's observing around the bridge, a boy caught
her and warned her to get out of there quickly before dark. However,
it seems to be too late. Chihiro ran to her parents who had turned
into pigs. Unbelieving her sight she ran in panic and found herself
trapped in that place with many weird-looking spirits.
She
cried as her body starts fading, convincing herself that it was only
a dream. Suddenly the same boy whom she had met before came and calmed
her down. He gave her a pill and ordered her to eat it. Obviously
Chihiro refused it, but the boy convinced her to eat it or else she'll
disappear. In hesitate, Chihiro ate the pill and her body came back
to normal. Not yet to be relieved, a bird was flying above them. Quickly
the boy covered Chihiro and told her that the bird is looking for
her. Convincingly, the boy said that he'll be helping her and then
he took her into the same bridge where they first time met.
The
boy told her to hold her breath deeply as they're crossing the bridge,
because even a lil breath will break the spell and everyone will see
her. Chihiro was holding her breath deeply as a frog came along and
leaped in front of them, addressing the boy as Haku-sama.
Chihiro was startled, and spontaneously took a breath. The frog saw
her but Haku quickly grabbed Chihiro and ran to a secret entrance.
Haku told Chihiro to hide and wait for his return, since now everyone
has found out her presence. Haku indeed returned, he told Chihiro
to see someone named Kama-jii.
After
a risky trip Chihiro finally met the man whom Haku mentioned, he is
a spider-like creature who works as a boilerman. Chihiro asked for
a job to Kama-jii but he said that there were no more vacancies. Soon
after, a maid named Lin came in to bring meals and
she caught out that Chihiro is a human. Thanx to Kama-jii for protecting
her and asked Lin to bring Chihiro to meet Yu-baba.
It's for the first time Chihiro to see the inside of the bath-house,
there were so many strange creature in it. Chihiro eventually met
Yu-baba and asked for a job to her. Yu-baba granted her wish but she
has to change her name. Taking the first character of her name, she
was then addressed as Sen.
There
she met Haku again, but this time Haku was so cold that she thought
it was a different person. Sen was contracted to work as a maid, just
as Lin does. She lived in a small apartment with another maiden. On
the break of dawn, Sen went out with Haku to see her parents in the
pigpens. Sen was so grief-stricken that she couldn't hold her tears.
Once upon a day a huge and stinky spirit came to the bath-house. Yu-baba
ordered Sen to serve the spirit which actually a polluted-river spirit.
As a gift for cleansing him up, the river spirit gave Sen a glum of
soil.
One
day when Sen was alone, came along a white dragon chased by numerous
paper birds. He was badly wounded, soon Sen realized that it was Haku.
Sen tried her best to save him by feeding Haku the glum of soil from
the river spirit. Yet the terrible hemorrhage had made Haku got blackout.
Later on Sen noticed that Haku was cursed by Yu-baba's twin sister
named Zeniba because Haku had stolen her solid gold
seal. In order to save Haku's life, Sen decided to return the seal
to Zeniba in the name of Haku. But a chaos was taking place in bath-house
when a black spirit got outrageous and demanded to meet Sen.
It
was the spirit which Sen had let in to the bath-house previous time.
However, Sen made it to calm down and they eventually make friends.
Everything went smoothly, Sen met Zeniba and she apologized for Haku's
sake. In the bath-house, Haku was making a deal with Yu-baba to cancel
Sen's contract and set her free along with her parents. Haku came
afterward to pick up Sen and on the way Sen finally remembered that
Haku was the river spirit named Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi who
had saved her from drowning when she was little. Before Sen departed,
she and Haku made a promise to see each other again someday. Then
Sen went back to the tunnel with her parents who didn't remember about
anything that had happened to them. Sen looked back trough the darkness
of the tunnel, wondering when she'll meet her first love again.
undoubtedly
it's the most sensational Ghibli's movie! yet don't you think Haku
is quite resembled with Touya Akira from