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Hearing about the stories of the enchanted movie, Mulan, Tangled, and other nostalgic

animations, they all share the same idea of sharing a secret meaning. Many childhood films

express a secret behind its related culture and history. One of many favorite childhood

animations is the magical Spirited Away by Miyazaki. It takes you along a journey with a little girl

named Chihiro, who unexpectedly gets put in an unknown and weird place as she tries to get

her family back home. In this film, it expresses many traditional Japanese values including

never giving up and thinking of others.

To start off, Spirited Away exaggerates the traditional Japanese value of never giving up.

In one specific scene, Chihiro is forced to take a giant smelly spirit through the bathhouse on

her own. As everyone takes a steck back from helping, Chihiro is determined to step up and do

the work on her own (Miyazaki). Even when she is already doing so much, the pressure of

taking on a big responsibility of the smelly customer could have easily broken Chihiro’s mindset

to give up. Though she expresses this passion to keep on persevering on her adventure. This

scenario clearly reflects on the Japanese culture of never giving up. Another memorable scene

in this movie was when Chihiro finds herself looking at her parents who had turned into pigs

during her journey, and she tells them “I will get you back home, I promise” (Miyazaki). Seeing

her parents in an unimaginable and horrendous form, she stays persistent with passion to get

back to her normal life. Chihiro had been working so hard to get herself and her family back

home as she kept on going. In the two scenarios listed above in Spirited Away, it clearly

expresses the Japanese value of never giving up.

Secondly, this animation can also express the traditional Japanese value of always

thinking of others. As you watch this film, it is clear that Chihiro is struggling to get herself back

together and back home. Though, a friend that she had made within her journey, Haku, had

been terribly hurt. With distractions of getting home, and No-face’s distractions of gold, she kept

her focus on saving Haku (Miyazaki). In this situation she could have kept her mind on herself
and on her original focus. She had already had so much in her hands, though she was selfless

enough to save Haku in hard times. The japanese value “thinking of others” is clearly shown as

Chihiro had out her friend first before herself. Also in this movie, Chihiro had taken the

responsibility of a smelly customer where she had found a stabbing object into the giant spirit.

As she was already dealing with all the horrendous smell, she did her best to help him out of his

misery to take out the things that were hurting him (Miyazaki). Assisting others, she takes on

helping this spirit when everyone chooses not to. Chihiro, who is obviously dreading with so

many conflicts in this movie, still expresses the Japanese value of being selfless.

In conclusion, the phenomenal movie animation, Spirited Away, informs us with many

important Japanese moral principles including, never giving up and thinking of others. Likewise,

Chihiro dreads struggles and conflicts throughout the plot, with her amazing determination, she

never gives up. She keeps on going no matter what and she does not let anything get in her

way. As important, Spirited Away also expresses the value of thinking of others. No matter her

situation, Chihiro takes on many selfless and considerate gestures to many of the characters in

the movie. She does her best to help out others during her own personal hard times. These two

major Japanese morals showcased in Spirited Away educates audiences on treasured society

values which could make our world a better place.

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