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The stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s Academy Award-winning film Spirited Away is set to debut in 2022, Japanese movie studio Toho Co Ltd. announced Thursday, February 25.
The theater version of Chihiro’s adventure will premiere in February 2022 at Tokyo’s Imperial Theater. It will also be staged in Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, and Sapporo, according to a Japan Times report.
In this adaptation, actresses Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi will star as the play’s heroine, Chihiro. Kamishirashi recently gained attention for her voice role in the anime film Your Name.
The stage play will be written and directed by John Caird, honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.
Caird said he’s excited to work on Spirited Away’s stage adaptation.
“I have for many years now regarded Hayao Miyazaki as one of the preeminent geniuses of world cinema and the greatest ever proponent of the anime form,” he said in a statement to NME.
Spirited Away is the first and only hand-drawn and non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It follows Chihiro, a 10-year old girl, who navigates a mysterious realm filled with spirits. Chihiro tries to save her parents as Yubaba, ruler of the realm, turns them into pigs. – with reports from Aloe Ynion/Rappler.com
Aloe Ynion is a Rappler intern.
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