Haku of Spirited Away Fanlisting
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Spirited Away Movie Summary
While at work Sen has a difficult time adjusting to the work regime, but wins respect by dealing with a difficult customer, a slimy "stink spirit" whom she discovers is actually a heavily polluted yet powerful river god. The river god rewards her with an herbal cake ball, or medicine ball, which acts as an emetic. Sen succeeds only with the help of a somewhat monstrous spirit called No Face, who is attracted to her because she was kind to him, unwittingly allowing him to enter the bathhouse against policy. The bathhouse seems to bring out the worst in No Face. Able to produce gold out of thin air, he feeds off of the greed of the bathhouse's employees. Eventually he goes out of control and begins eating everything in sight, including three staff members. While No Face is keeping everyone busy, Haku returns to the bathhouse in the form of a dragon, but he is in trouble as he is being pursued and attacked by a large flock of enchanted origami birds. Badly injured, he makes his way to Yubaba's quarters. Recognizing him in dragon form, Sen goes to find him but is secretly followed by one of the paper birds.
While looking for Haku, Sen encounters Yubaba's giant baby boy, Bou, who wants to play with her. She manages to get away from him to see Kashira trying to push the dying Haku down a shaft. The paper object that followed Sen transforms into Zeniba, Yubaba's twin sister, who was chasing Haku because he had stolen her gold seal. The seal has a spell on it so that whoever steals it will die. Zeniba transforms the baby into a little hamster-like creature because he makes too much noise, and Yubaba's hawk-like lieutenant into a tiny bird-creature. She then transforms Kashira into a clone of Boh to fool Yubaba. Haku cuts Zeniba's paper puppet in two with his tail, causing her image to split and disappear. He then tumbles down the shaft, taking Sen with him, but they land safely in Kamaji's room.
Sen manages to feed Haku a piece of the herbal cake, causing him to spit out the stolen seal. The seal has a black slug on it which Sen squashes with her foot. Resolving to help the unconscious Haku by returning Zeniba's seal and apologizing on his behalf, Sen first returns to the bathhouse to deal with the out-of-control No Face. She feeds him the remaining herbal cake, causing him to regurgitate the food and three bathhouse workers he has eaten. His pathological gluttony is cured once he follows her outside. Using a train ticket from Kamaji, Sen takes a train to where Zeniba lives, accompanied by No Face and Bou (who shares a mutually helpful relationship with the tiny bird creature).
Haku later recovers from his illness. When Yubaba finds out that her baby is missing she is furious. Haku manages to make a deal: he will get the baby back and, in return, Yubaba must set free Sen and her parents. (The plots of the Japanese- and English-language versions differ slightly here: in the original, Yubaba and Haku talk about what's necessary to break the spell on her parents.) At Zeniba's simple cottage, it is revealed that the black slug Sen squished was put in Haku by Yubaba. The slug was how Yubaba controlled Haku. Zeniba states that the only way the spell on her seal can be broken is by love (Haku's illness in the boiler room was the spell of the seal, and Chihiro's love actually breaks the spell).
Haku, again a dragon, finds Sen at Zeniba's cottage. Zeniba forgives him for stealing her seal and takes No Face in as a helper before seeing Chihiro off. The two of them fly back to the bathhouse. While riding on Haku's back, Chihiro remembers where she and Haku met before: when she was young, she fell into a river and somehow got carried to shallow water. She was actually saved by Haku, who was the river spirit of the Kohaku River, near which Chihiro used to live but has since been drained and built upon. Upon remembering Chihiro tells him that his name is 'Kohaku River', and the spell breaks; Haku is free from the control of Yubaba. At the bathhouse Chihiro has to perform one last task to free her parents: she has to pick them out from a group of pigs. She correctly answers that none of the pigs are her parents. As a result she and her parents are set free and return to the human world, with Chihiro more grown up from her experiences.
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