Essay 6 -My favorite movie-

I’ll introduce about my favorite movie.

It’s “Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi”. It is called “Spirited Away” in English. It is an Academy Award winning 2001 film by the Japanese animation studio ‘Studio Ghibli’, written and directed by famed animator 'Hayao Miyazaki'.

At the film’s beginning, Chihiro, a ten-years-old girl, and her family are on its way to a new home in a new town. When her father gets lost taking a short cut, they discover a mysterious entryway through a tunnel. Going through, they find a strange, beautiful grassy landscape, which they assume to be an abandoned theme park. The parents find stall piled with food and start eating and soon lose control of their hunger. Then, her parents have turned into pigs.

This is my favorite scene because I think it has something to do with a scene of the Japanese myth. I am interested in it, especially, the story of 'Izanaginomikoto' and 'Izanaminomikoto'. They are said the creators of Japan in the story, and the scene of the film is similar to it.

First, the tunnel which Chihiro and her family go through is 'Yomotuhirasaka', I think. 'Yomotuhirasaka' is the entrance to the underworld, and actually, they go to the strange world. The tunnel is the gate of the different world!

Second is the scene that her parents eat foods putting on a stall. After eating, they have turned into pigs. The phenomenon is similar to Yomotuhegui. It is the phenomenon that person who eats foods which are in the under world cannot return to the present world. Chihiro’s parents cannot move and escape and finally, they are arrested by officers.

There are many scenes which are worth to watch in the movie. I enjoyed myself watching it over preparing the similar things between Japanese myth and this film, however, this film also gives us more interesting and important things. I recommend it and please have an interest about Japanese myth.