ABSTRACT
In Spirited Away, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli (2001), audiences are exposed to a realm of the imagination populated by spirit elements and loosely guided by a mixture of lesser male and more dominant female energies that align to notions of earthiness and spirituality. This chapter presents an analysis of the characters in the film, which is a narrative about a ten-year-old girl grappling with adolescence through a series of adventures in the Spirit World, to explore Japanese sensibility.
