It’s Fantasy February here at Movies that Make Us, and this week we discuss the Japanese animated fantasy film Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki. It tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who when moving to a new neighborhood, enters the world of Kami (spirits of Japanese Shinto folklore). After her parents are turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba, Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba’s bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and return to the human world.Beautiful, hand-drawn animation brings us into a world lush with unique characters and beautiful settings. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, making it the first and to date, the only hand-drawn and non-English-language animated film to win the award.Did you miss the video premier of this episode? Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, and then click the little bell to receive notifications when we add a new video or go live.You can also follow our Facebook page so you can receive notifications for new audio or video of our episodes. Sometimes we are even live on Facebook, so you can give us feedback right then and there. It’s pretty sweet.As always, thank you for listening, and for now, we won’t see you at the movies…  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.