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58 free Spirited Away trivia questions with answers. Spirited Away is the film that made the rest of the world sit up and notice Studio Ghibli, and it still rewards a rewatch two decades on. This quiz walks through the whole thing: Chihiro's parents and the plate of food that dooms them, the name Yubaba steals from her, Haku's forgotten river, No-Face's rampage, the stink spirit, the train across the sea to Zeniba's cottage, and the hairband she is still wearing at the end. It also goes behind the drawings, so it works for anime fans, film students and anyone planning a Ghibli movie night. You will find questions on the real Japanese bathhouses and museums Miyazaki used for reference, the Disney-produced English dub and its cast, Joe Hisaishi's score and the closing song that was written for a film that never got made, the Golden Bear, the Academy Award and the Japanese box office record it held for 19 years. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the film, its soundtrack, its cast and its makers, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Fifty questions, free, no signup.
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Q 01In what year was Spirited Away released in Japanese cinemas?
2001
It opened on 20 July 2001 and stayed at number one at the Japanese box office for eleven weeks.
Q 02Who wrote and directed Spirited Away?
Hayao Miyazaki
He also directed My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service before it, and later received an honorary Academy Award in 2014.
Q 03Chihiro's parents are transformed into which animals after eating the spirit world's food?
Pigs
Miyazaki said the transformation symbolizes how some people become greedy, a nod to Japan's 1980s bubble economy.
Q 04What name does Yubaba give Chihiro after taking part of her real one?
Sen
Yubaba removes the second kanji from Chihiro's name and controls people by taking their names.
Q 05What is the name of Yubaba's twin sister?
Zeniba
The twin lives at Swamp Bottom, and No-Face chooses to stay with her at the end of the film.
Q 06Haku is eventually revealed to be the spirit of what?
The Kohaku River
Chihiro once fell into that river as a small child and was washed safely ashore; it was later filled in for apartments.
Q 07Who composed and conducted the film's score?
Joe Hisaishi
The score was performed by the New Japan Philharmonic and won the Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production.
Q 08Which company handled the film's North American distribution?
Walt Disney
The studio's 10% investment in the film gave it right of first refusal, and its home entertainment arm released the DVD in April 2003.
Q 09The Golden Bear that Spirited Away shared in 2002 is the top prize of which film festival?
Berlin
The award was shared with a live-action drama that year, a rare joint honour for the festival.
Q 10With which film did Spirited Away share its 2002 Golden Bear?
Bloody Sunday
Paul Greengrass's drama about the 1972 Derry shootings took the joint honour, an unusual pairing with a Japanese fantasy.
Q 11Spirited Away won Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards over which of these nominees?
Ice Age
The other losing nominees that night were Lilo & Stitch, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Treasure Planet.
Q 12What distinction did Spirited Away earn at the Academy Awards?
First hand-drawn, non-English-language film to win Best Animated Feature
The category was only two years old at the time; the inaugural winner in 2002 had been Shrek.
Q 13Who hosted the 75th Academy Awards ceremony at which the film won its Oscar?
Steve Martin
Q 21Which Pixar figure persuaded Disney to buy the film's North American rights?
John Lasseter
A friend and fan of Miyazaki, he would sit with his staff and watch Miyazaki's films when they hit story problems.
Q 22Who voices Chihiro in the English dub?
Daveigh Chase
The same year she also voiced Lilo in Lilo & Stitch and played Samara in The Ring.
Q 23Which actress voices Yubaba in the English dub, in what turned out to be her final film role?
Suzanne Pleshette
Best known as Emily on The Bob Newhart Show, she died in January 2008.
The ceremony took place days after the Iraq War began, and several presenters withdrew citing safety concerns.
Q 14Which film ended Spirited Away's 19-year run as the highest-grossing film ever in Japan?
Demon Slayer
The record fell in 2020, after 73 days on release for the challenger, at a gross of ¥32.48 billion.
Q 15Roughly how much did Spirited Away gross in Japan during its record-setting run?
¥31.68 billion
It took a record ¥1.6 billion in its first three days alone.
Q 16Approximately what did Spirited Away gross worldwide?
$396 million
A 2019 theatrical release in China added around $70 million to that total nearly two decades after the film first opened.
Q 17What was Spirited Away's production budget in US dollars?
$19 million
Production began in 2000 on a budget of ¥1.9 billion, a fraction of what a Hollywood animated feature cost at the time.
Q 18In how many theatres did Spirited Away open on its first weekend in North America in 2002?
26
It earned $450,000 that weekend and only expanded to 714 theatres after its Oscar win the following spring.
Q 19For how many consecutive weeks was Spirited Away number one at the Japanese box office?
Eleven
The run cemented it as the biggest film in Japanese history, a title it kept until 2020.
Q 20Who directed the English-language adaptation of Spirited Away?
Kirk Wise
Cindy Davis Hewitt and Donald H. Hewitt wrote the English dialogue to match the characters' original Japanese lip movements.
Q 24David Ogden Stiers voices which character in the English dub?
Kamaji
Stiers, of M*A*S*H fame, was a Disney dub regular, having voiced Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast.
Q 25Which prolific voice actress plays Yubaba's giant baby Boh in the English dub?
Tara Strong
In the Japanese version the baby was voiced by Ryunosuke Kamiki, who was 8 at the time and later starred in Your Name.
Q 26Who voices Chihiro in the original Japanese version?
Rumi Hiiragi
Miyu Irino voiced Haku opposite her; both were child actors when the film was recorded.
Q 27Which actress voices Yubaba in Japanese and later played both witches in the stage adaptation?
Mari Natsuki
She reprised the twin roles when the stage version premiered in Tokyo in 2022.
Q 28The Radish Spirit who rides the elevator with Chihiro is known in Japanese by what name?
Oshira-sama
He is voiced by Ken Yasuda in Japanese and by Jack Angel in the English dub.
Q 29The soot sprites that the boiler-man commands are known by what Japanese name?
Susuwatari
The same creatures appear in My Neighbor Totoro, where they are called soot gremlins in the English dub.
Q 30What is the English title of the film's closing song?
Always With Me
Its Japanese title, Itsumo Nando Demo, literally means "Always, No Matter How Many Times".