Sheet Music from Spirited Away

About the movie: Spirited Away, or Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (千と千尋の神隠し; "The spiriting away of Sen and Chihiro") is a 2001 Studio Ghibli movie by Japanese anime director and manga artist Hayao Miyazaki. In the movie, Chihiro Ogino is a little girl who is moving to a new town with her parents. In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, she wanders into a world ruled by witches and monsters.

Spirited Away was released in Japan in July 2001, drawing an audience of around 23 million and revenues of 30 billion yen (approx. $250 million US), to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history (beating Titanic (1997)); it is said that by 2002, a sixth of the Japanese population had seen it.

The film was subsequently released in the United States in September 20, 2002 and made slightly over 10 million dollars by September 2003. It was dubbed into English by The Walt Disney Company, under the supervision of Pixar vice president John Lasseter, and was released in North America by its Buena Vista Distribution arm.