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  Spirited Away

  £275.00

  “Haku, listen. I just remembered something from a long time ago, I think it may help you. Once, when I was little, I dropped my shoe into a river. When I tried to get it back I fell in. I thought I’d drown but the water carried me to shore. It finally came back to me. The river’s name was the Kohaku river. I think that was you, and your real name is Kohaku River.”

  Original UK quad cinema poster produced for the 2024 theatrical re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”. The striking landscape design places Chihiro before the magnificent bathhouse, framed by a vivid blue sky and the film’s instantly recognisable red bridge. Review quotations and five-star ratings celebrate the enduring reputation of Studio Ghibli’s Academy Award-winning animated masterpiece.

  First released in Japan in 2001, “Spirited Away” follows ten-year-old Chihiro into an extraordinary realm of spirits, magic and transformation. This edition accompanied the film’s return to UK cinemas on Boxing Day 2024. With the re-release shown largely in art-house and independent cinemas and for a very limited period, relatively few promotional posters were distributed, making surviving examples extremely scarce.

  Presented rolled (as issued) and in excellent condition, this colourful poster designed especially for this release by the creative agency Mister S, has tremendous visual impact and is a superb display piece for collectors of Studio Ghibli, Japanese animation and Hayao Miyazaki.

  Trivia: Hayao Miyazaki wrote, directed, and drew the storyboards for the movie; many directors have claimed that he essentially ‘writes his movie with drawings’, with films like Spirited Away (2001) being one man’s work and vision. The filmmaker is so influential and involved in the production, the New Yorker once called him “the auteur of anime.”

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