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Disney releases Japanese film
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LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. is used to creating its own animated movies, not importing them.
That changed when Toy Story creator John Lasseter persuaded the studio to take a chance on the Japanese anime film Spirited Away by adapting it with English dialogue and releasing it in U.S. theaters.
The film, by writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, tells an Alice in Wonderland-style story about a girl who becomes trapped in a world of nature spirits and must escape to rescue her parents from a spell that transformed them into pigs.
Strange? That's what Lasseter liked about it.
It is the first Japanese anime film to debut under the Walt Disney Pictures banner, which is normally reserved for the studio's own family fare.
If Spirited Away is successful in its initial limited distribution—
it opens today in New York and Los Angeles — it would receive a wider release.
Lasseter, who co-directed A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2, had two jobs as executive producer of the English-language adaptation: make the film accessible to Western moviegoers and preserve Mivazaki's original vision.
Many characters in the film are Earth spirits — the " souls" of natural entities ranging from rivers to radishes and mud — and the story takes place at a mystical bathhouse where they gather to relax.
"In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere — in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything." Miyazaki said through a translator.
"My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything."
Lasseter acknowledged that many of these elements would be unfamiliar to many Western moviegoers.
"For Japanese audiences, they looked up on the screen and saw things that were familiar to them: a bathhouse, a village society, traditional earth spirits and river spirits," Lasseter said. "So for us, Americans may look up at this film and not necessarily know what is going on."
Children might be more willing than adults to allow some questions about the story to go unanswered, said Kirk Wise, co-director of Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, who directed the English dubbing of Spirited Away.
"Older people may think it's way out there, but if you say to children. 'Once upon a time there was a bathhouse where all the gods and spirits and monsters go on the weekends,' they'll accept it," he said.
"That's one of the great things about kids."
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