spirited away trivia

spirited away Mini Quiz

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Question 1

Beating Ice Age at the Oscars, what 2001 Ghibli film about a magical bathhouse was the first non-English Best Animated Feature winner?

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away remained the only hand-drawn movie to win the Best Animated Feature Oscar until his film The Boy and the Heron won in 2024.

Question 2

Voiced in English by the actress who voiced Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, what Spirited Away heroine is renamed "Sen"?

Actress Daveigh Chase voiced Chihiro. The bathhouse witch Yubaba steals her real name to trap her in the spirit world, renaming her "Sen", which translates to one thousand.

Question 3

Chihiro's parents transform into pigs in the film Spirited Away after doing what?

They gorge on unattended restaurant food without permission. Director Hayao Miyazaki used their pig transformation to symbolize the greed of Japan's 1980s economic bubble.

Question 4

The lonely spirit No-Face gains new traits and voices in the film Spirited Away by doing what?

Lacking an identity of his own, No-Face acts like a sponge. He takes on the greedy personalities of the bathhouse workers he consumes, starting with a vocal frog spirit.

Question 5

In Spirited Away, spirit No-Face gains a voice and turns violently greedy by doing what?

In Spirited Away, No-Face acts as a blank slate who reflects his surroundings. He adopts the voice and extreme greed of the frog spirit Aogaeru after consuming him.