"Spirited Away" stage play to be released in 2022, starring Kanna Hashimoto

Hayao Miyazaki's immortal masterpiece "Spirited Away" has announced the launch of a stage play, which will premiere globally at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo, Japan from February to March 2022.

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It is reported that the stage play of "Spirited Away" will be adapted and directed by John Caird, the director of the musical "Les Miserables", and will be starred by Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi in turn.

"Spirited Away" is a Japanese animated film produced by Studio Ghibli, directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki, and released on July 20, 2001. The story tells the story of a little girl who accidentally enters the world of gods and then experiences growth.

This work brought Miyazaki many achievements in his career. In terms of box office, it set a record of 23.5 million viewers and 30.8 billion yen in Japan, surpassing the 27.2 billion yen box office of the American film "Titanic" released in Japan in 1997 to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history. In 2020, due to the re-release of the film, the box office was revised to 31.68 billion yen. Its throne of the champion of Japanese film history was surpassed by "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train" in December 2020.

It was released in mainland China last June

The film has won more than ten major awards in Japan and abroad, including the Golden Bear Award at the 52nd Berlin Film Festival in 2002 and the Best Animated Film Award at the 75th Academy Awards. Most media outlets have also given positive responses to the film, such as The New York Times ranking it second among the top 25 films of the 21st century, and Time Out magazine ranking it first among the top 15 animated films of all time.