The stage play of Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" is really here, and everyone who has seen it said, "Would you like to restore it like this?"

Hayao Miyazaki The stage play adapted from the animation "Spirited Away" is here!

In March last year, news came out that to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of Toho , Japan's Studio Ghibli announced that Hayao Miyazaki's classic "Spirited Away" will be adapted. For the stage play, Hashimoto Kanna and Kami Shiraishi Moene will take turns appearing in "Spirited Away".

The musical Les Miserables director John Caird personally curated and directed the adaptation.

"Spirited Away" is a classic animation directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki. Since its release in Japan in 2001, it has touched countless audiences around the world.

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The story tells the story of a girl "Chihiro" and her parents accidentally enter another world when they move. After a lot of hardships, I finally succeeded in reuniting with my parents.

It is reported that the director in charge of the stage play Spirited Away is John Caird, who once directed the world tour of Les Miserables.

John Caird, who has always loved Spirited Away, traveled to Japan to meet with Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki to get permission to adapt it for the stage.Toshio Suzuki also gave him a piggy bank of a faceless man.

Kelder not only has a wealth of stage play experience, but is also a big fan of Spirited Away, and only shows his own children the works of Studio Ghibli .

At that time, Studio Ghibli announced the performance schedule was February and March 2022 at Tokyo Imperial Theater Fukuoka, in June at Hokkaido , in June and July at Aimi Furuya, and overseas versions will be considered in the future.

This month, stills of the new play being performed at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo, Japan were released, and netizens and audiences commented that "the puppet's restoration is excellent"! Some audience members in Tokyo even said, "Do you want to be so similar to the movie?"

There are many familiar scenes in the stage play, including scenes such as the boiler room, the bathhouse, and the tram with the faceless man, as well as the protagonists Chihiro, Hakuryu, and other classic characters are also faithfully presented. And Chihiro, who alternately performed by Kanna Hashimoto and Moe Kamishiraishi, performed brilliantly, and most Japanese media and audiences highly appreciated the show.

As the first stage version of Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning animated film, John Caird (who also co-wrote and directed the British musical Les Miserables), Kanna Hashimoto and Starring Mone Kamishiraishi, this year's show is scheduled for a tour of Osaka, Fukuoka, Sapporo and Nagoya after the premiere.