Top 4 in Top 10 best Japanese Anime of all time.
Spirited Away was released theatrically in Japan by Toho on July 20, 2001 and became the most successful animated feature film in the country's history, grossing over $331 million worldwide. The film surpassed Titanic (at that time the highest-grossing film in the world) at the Japanese box office to take the position of the highest-grossing film in the country's history with a total of 30, 4 billion yen. Spirited Away received mostly positive reviews and is often ranked among the greatest animated films ever made. The work won the Oscar for best animated feature at the 75th awards ceremony. The film also won other prestigious awards. The film tells the story of Ogino Chihiro, a bored 10-year-old girl who is trapped in a world of spirits and demons after her parents are turned into pigs on their way to a new home. She is forced to take a job at Yubaba's public bath to find a way to free her parents and herself and return to the human world.