Hayao Miyazaki
Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Rumi Hiragi.
Club.
The most successful film ever made in Japan, Spirited Away is an animated journey in which a family delves into a dark world in the same way as Alice entered the rabbit-hole.
If the film has a flaw, it lies in the feeling that the director hasn't decided what sort of film, or what sort of message, he requires from it.
Otherwise, it is clever, thoughtful and always off-centre with its strange houses, dangerous animals and threats and menaces in a disturbing world of fantasy.
4/5