Haku of Spirited Away Fanlisting
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Spirited Away Movie Summary
In the movie, Chihiro Ogino is a little girl who is moving to a new town with her parents, Akio and Yuko. She is clearly unhappy about the move and appears rather petulant. They lose their way and come across a tunnel, and out of curiosity enter it, unaware that it actually provides access into a spirit world—specifically, to a spirit bathhouse, where the spirits and gods (drawn from the Shinto religious tradition) go to rest and relax.
The family enters what is apparently an abandoned theme park populated with restaurants, and Chihiro's parents, finding a place to eat, immediately help themselves to a meal. Chihiro is uneasy, and hesitates outside, watching her parents eat like pigs. When her parents offer her some food, she refuses and runs off to explore more of this abandoned theme park by herself. She comes to a grand looking bathhouse and approaches a bridge leading up to it and looks down to see a mysterious train passing below. Suddenly, a mysterious boy named Haku appears on the bridge and orders Chihiro to leave before it gets dark. Just then the sky darkens and the lamps of the bathhouse light up. Haku creates a magical diversion and tells Chihiro to get across the river. Chihiro then runs back down to the restaurant where her parents are still eating and discovers to her horror that they have been transformed into large pigs (as happened to Odysseus' crew in Homer's Odyssey). Terrified, Chihiro screams and runs off back the way she had come, in attempt to find the tunnel back to her parents' car. As she runs, ghostly spirits and shadows appear in the previously-deserted theme park and frighten Chihiro even more. However, she is stopped from going back to the tunnel by an ocean, which has replaced the grassy plain she originally crossed with her parents to get to the park.
When Chihiro's distress at losing her parents is compounded by discovering that she's turning transparent, Haku finds her and comforts her, giving her something to eat from the spirit world so she does not vanish. He knows her name somehow, and helps her sneak into the spirit world palace of Yubaba. He tells her that the only way she can safely remain long enough to rescue her parents is to find work in the spirits' bathhouse.
Chihiro follows Haku's advice, descending a long outdoor staircase to the boiler room where she asks the human-looking, six-armed boilerman, Kamaji, for work. He rebuffs her, until one of the coal-carrying sprites (reminiscent of My Neighbor Totoro's soot sprites) collapses under an extra-heavy lump. Chihiro picks up the coal and feeds the boiler, despite the fact that she can barely carry the fantastically heavy coal. Kamaji warms towards the girl, and assists her in getting a job in the bathhouse.
A young woman named Lin (Rin) helps Chihiro find her way through the labyrinthine palace undetected, diverting a fellow servant by tantalizing him with food while Chihiro squeezes into an elevator behind a gross but benign radish spirit (daikon kami).
Pulled into Yubaba's penthouse suite, Chihiro discovers a regal but monstrous lady (similar to the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), who dotes on an equally monstrous (and unfeasibly large) baby. Chihiro repeatedly and stubbornly asks for a job, and finally Yubaba consents, on condition that she give up her name (somewhat like the Sea Witch demanding the Little Mermaid's voice in the Hans Christian Andersen tale). Yubaba complains that she is too nice and regrets taking an oath to give whoever seeks work a job. Yubaba literally takes possession of Chihiro's name, grasping the kanji from the contract in her hand and leaving Chihiro only one piece of her original 2-character name on the contract, in isolation pronounced "Sen".[4] The next morning, Haku shows Sen where her parents are being kept (along with scores of other pigs). Outside, Haku gives Sen her old clothes and the card from her farewell bouquet of flowers at the beginning of the film. Reading the card, she remembers her name. Haku warns her that Yubaba controls people by stealing ther names; once they forget their names as Haku forgot his, they belong to her.
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