STORY:
Chihiro, a ten-year-old (voice: Daveigh Chase (voiced by Daveigh Chase in the 2002 English dub) and her parents Lauren Holly and Michael Chiklis) drive to their new home. When Chihiro notices that the bouquet her friend gave her as a goodbye present is wilting, she becomes irritated and unhappy about the relocation. In sight of their new house, they mess up and follow a rough, rotted old street through the forest; Chihiro sees an odd old sculpture through the trees as they drive by. The street closes at a passage prompting an unwanted amusement park. It makes Chihiro really uncomfortable, yet her folks convince her to go in with them and glance around.
They ascend a stone staircase and arrive at a street lined with restaurants and shops after wandering through a grassy landscape and a dry riverbed. Most are abandoned, yet the smell of cooking drives them to the one café that is all around supplied with food-however it's bafflingly abandoned. Despite Chihiro's objections, Mom and Dad start eating because they are hungry. Chihiro wanders off to explore while they eat the delicious food. She finds a transcending, resplendent structure that she perceives as a bathhouse (a spa resort); Under it, there is a train track. A boy she meets (voice: Jason Marsden) in traditional attire, alarmed by her appearance; Before it gets dark, he tells her to leave and return across the river. Chihiro runs back to her folks, yet they're actually eating-and they've transformed into pigs. Chihiro is frightened and is separated from the pigs that were her parents when strange, dark, ghostly figures appear in all of the stores and streets. Chihiro runs back to the stream, which was almost dry when they came over yet is currently full and huge, and she doesn't actually perceive the structures on the far side. She notices that her body has become transparent as a riverboat approaches.
The riverboat lands a large group of costumed individuals, or perhaps they aren't people at all; They are initially only visible as paper masks. Chihiro thinks shes dreaming, yet can't awaken. She is discovered by the boy who warned her to run away, and he tells her that she must consume food from his world or she will perish. He guarantees her that she won't transform into a pig. She becomes solid after swallowing the morsel he gives her, but she ends up stuck to the ground until he says an incantation to free her. A bird with a lady's head hovers above them and he conceals her, saying the bird is searching for her. They go through back streets and the pig outbuilding to the large bathhouse, which is gotten to by an extension; The boy warns her that the spell that makes her invisible will be broken if she doesn't hold her breath as they cross the bridge. Clients phenomenally fluctuated divine beings and spirits-are crossing the scaffold and being welcomed by bathhouse staff. Chihiro makes it practically as far as possible across, however a frog (voice: She takes a deep breath as she is startled by Bob Bergen's conversation with her companion, whom she refers to as Haku. Haku uses magic to encase the frog in a bubble to silence it, fortunately only the frog appears to be seeing her.
She is instructed by Haku to locate Kamajii (voice: David Ogden Stiers), the boilerman, and persuade him to hire her; she should have something important to remain at the bathhouse, or, in all likelihood Yubaba (voice: Suzanne Pleshette), the old witch who runs the bathhouse, will transform her into a creature. Also, Haku says she needs to remain to find and help her folks, who are still pigs, any place they are. He knows her name and says he's known her since she was tiny.
Chihiro dives a lofty, winding, rail-less wooden flight of stairs looking for Kamajii and the engine compartment. She sees an odd setup when she finds them: Kamajii, a bearded, bald man with six arms and dark glasses who controls the machinery and feeds the boiler with things like spiders, which deliver coal lump by lump. She asks for a job, but he tells her that he's cast a spell on sootballs (the spider-things) to have all the workers he needs after complaining about four bath tokens at once and four red plaques on purple ribbons falling from the ceiling. Chihiro needs to continue to move to remain out the method of Kamajii and the sootballs. She gets a chunk of coal that is excessively weighty for the sootball conveying it-and excessively weighty for her-and Kamajii advises her to complete what she began, so she pulls it over to the heater and throws it in. All the sootballs profess to implode under the heaviness of their coal so they will not need to work, yet Kamajii chides them and Chihiro, saying that in the event that they don't continue to work, the spell will wear off. The sootballs and food for Kamajii are brought in by a young woman. The lady is stunned to see Chihiro-"you're the human everybody is searching for!"- yet Kamajii says she's his granddaughter and requests that the lady take Chihiro to Yubaba, who will put her to work. The lady, whose name is Lin (voice: Susan Egan), possibly concurs when Kamajii offers her a cooked newt; she tersely advises Chihiro to abandon her shoes and socks and to thank the kettle man-"he's truly standing up for you."
They take three elevators to Yubaba's rooms on the top floor, where they see many customers—Lin refers to one as a "radish spirit"—in between. A lift administrator who hasn't spotted Chihiro tells Lin she smells very much like a human. Lin occupies him with the broiled newt that Kamajii gave her while Chihiro gets away from in the last lift with the radish soul. They show up at a patio like room with a mosaic floor and two major front entryways; Attempting to open one, Chihiro According to the entryway knocker, "would you confirm or deny that you are in any event, going to thump? I've never seen a more pitiful little girl! The entryways open and a similar voice (Suzanne Pleshette)- it's Yubaba-advises her to come in; she's gotten through the house into a fire-lit room in which a few free green heads skip around, and Yubaba, an elderly person with a gigantic head, works at a work area. Chihiro approaches Yubaba for employment, but Yubaba dismisses her as foolish and uses magic to silence her. As she considers what to do with Chihiro, she puffs on a cigarette. She lifts the quieting spell to ask Chihiro who helped her, yet Chihiro just keeps on requesting work, which drives Yubaba crazy. At the point when Chihiro endures, Yubaba offers, "perhaps I'll give you the most troublesome work I have and work you until you inhale your absolute final gasp." They are interrupted by Bôh, Yubaba's enormous baby. Tara Solid) awakens, which Yubaba faults on Chihiro. Chihiro continues to request work and Yubaba at long last consents to give her a task in the event that she'll hush up. Yubaba mutters, "I can't believe I took that oath to give a job to anyone who asks," as Chihiro signs a contract. Yubaba, seeing that Chihiro is a lovely name, mysteriously lifts everything except one of the characters of Chihiro's name from the agreement and says that the name has a place with her now. Yubaba tells the one character who still bears Chihiro's name, "from now on, your name is Sen," and Haku comes to instruct her, pretending not to know her. He says she should address him as Expert Haku.
None of the laborers need to take Chihiro/Sen into their specialization, grumbling that she smells awful, however Haku says her smell will be pursued three days of eating their food. Haku relegates Chihiro/Sen to work with Lin since Lin had been requesting a partner. Lin takes Sen to their room, which they share with a few others, and gives her dress (a blue cover and pink shirt and jeans). Sen inquires as to whether there are two Hakus. Lin says no, and that Sen should be cautious what she shares with Haku on the grounds that he's Yubaba's partner in crime. Sen doesn't feel good.
Yubaba transforms into a bird with a human head and takes off her overhang with a more modest however generally indistinguishable human-headed bird.
As Sen lies resting among her new collaborators, a voice (Haku's) says "meet me at the scaffold; You will be taken to your parents by me. She wakes up, changes into her new clothes, and goes to the boiler room where her shoes were left. At the point when she notices "my shoes are gone," the sootballs free them once again from the passages where they reside.
Sen advances out to the scaffold, where a hazy soul is standing. It wears a white veil and a dark robe. Quietly, it watches her cross; it was remaining in a similar spot in the extension when she crossed the prior night. Haku tracks down her at the opposite side and leads her through blossoming bushes to the immense piggery. He says she should never come there without him. She recognizes two or three dozing pigs-there are hundreds-as her folks, and vows to help them. Haku says she should recall which pigs are her folks. He gives her back her old garments, which she'll have to escape, and a card with her genuine name, Chihiro, which Sen has nearly failed to remember as of now. ( When she spoke to her parents, she referred to herself as Sen.) Haku says Yubaba applies control over individuals by taking their names; she should not fail to remember hers as he has failed to remember his. He provides her with food. She cries as she eats and he attempts to comfort her. Then Haku needs to go; he leaves her at the extension. She turns around to look for him when she notices a dragon flying away and recognizes Haku. Afterward, Kamajii finds Sen sleeping on the floor of the engine compartment; he conceals her.
Yubaba-bird and her more modest sidekick fly home through weighty downpour. Lin inquires about Sen's whereabouts inside the bathhouse; Sen apologizes, but he doesn't explain. Sen, Lin, and different young ladies wash a story until a man comes to say they get the huge tub today, however the ladies don't normally get that sort of work-"that is frog work," as Lin says. Sen sees the bridge's still spirit standing outside in the rain looking in as she dumps her pail out the garden door. She leaves the door open for him and inquires if he's getting wet; he follows her in.
They find that the large tub is encrusted with muck and should be doused before they can clean it appropriately, so Lin sends Sen to the foreman (voice: John Ratzenberger) for a natural cleanser token. Far above in her condo, Yubaba faculties something drawing closer. She watches out and ponders who is lurking around in the downpour. The bathhouse is being approached by a spirit that resembles a sludge.
Sen receives a soap token from the silent spirit, but the foreman declines to do so. As they fill the huge tub to splash it clean, Lin says the water contains salts that should be really great for you. The quiet soul (voice: Sen is approached once more by Bob Bergen, who offers a few soap tokens. He isn't entirely silent; in this scene he makes nearly nothing "ah" sounds, as though he's attempting to talk.) He seems disappointed and lets the tokens fall to the ground when she politely declines them. She's occupied when the enormous tub spills over.
In the interim, Yubaba has recognized the strolling mudpile as a smell soul, however she's dubious that he isn't actually. Yubaba orders Sen to take him to the big tub and give him a bath after the staff can't stop him. Sen can barely talk since he smells so awful. A pool of purple stinkiness surrounds him. His brownish slime is everywhere when he gets into the large tub.
As Sen tries to get rid of the stink spirit, Yubaba and the foreman are watching. She orders some good, cleansing hot water with the herbal soap tokens the silent spirit gave her. As Lin shows up to help, Sen feels something like a thistle in the smell soul's side. Yubaba concludes this is significant and gives Sen rope to bind to the thistle (which has a handle); with assistance from all the staff, they haul a bike out of the soul's body, trailed by a whole junkyard. ( Hayao Miyazaki has said that this piece of the story is personal he once hauled a bike out of a contaminated, litter-obstructed waterway.) At the point when the ooze clears, an old looking earthy colored face with shaggy eyebrows shows up and says "all around good" to Sen. He appears to vanish, leaving her with a modest bunch of something greenish. Then, at that point, he bursts out of the tub like a goliath white snake-or maybe a mythical serpent (he looks like Haku's winged serpent structure)- and takes off, abandoning loads of gold. Yubaba is happy. Instead of being a stink spirit, the guest was a river spirit in trouble. Sen sees the quiet soul sitting in the corner, aside from all the fervor.
At sleep time, Lin and Sen sit on their gallery eating dumplings. At the point when Sen gets some information about Haku, Lin says the word is he takes care of Yubaba's grimy responsibilities. They watch a train go by on the water. ( Or then again so it appears; with all the downpour, the water has risen so it simply covers the tracks.) Lin says she needs to escape that spot "some time or another I'm getting on that train." Sen tastes the green stuff the stream soul gave her, however thinks that it is extremely upsetting.
That evening, the frog who originally saw Chihiro on the extension goes into the room with the enormous tub and meets the quiet soul, who draws him closer with minimal gold chunks. The spirit uses his voice after eating the frog. He asks one more worker for food and pays with more gold, which appears to fill in his grasp depending on the situation.
Sen takes the gift from the river spirit to the piggery in the hopes that it will make her porky parents human. However, she is unable to identify which pigs are her parents.
Back at the bathhouse, Lin shows Sen a piece of gold from "another visitor here who's stacked." The previously quiet soul is eating all that the staff can bring him, becoming bigger and uglier, and apportioning gold. Sen goes in search of Haku.
Sen recognizes as Haku a white dragon that flies across the water, splashes upon landing, and then appears to be attacked by white birds. Sen opens her overhang entryways so the mythical serpent can fly into her room and shuts the entryways on the birds, which end up being made of paper.
The mythical serpent is dying, however flies out and up to a higher window. Sen pursues him, concerned; one of the paper birds appends itself to her back. She meets the once-silent spirit, who welcomes her and gives her gold; She declines, and the spirit drops the gold, disappointed once more, which the other employees eagerly take. The employee who was leading him through the halls and another employee are consumed by the spirit. Has Sen's dismissal of his gifts turned him evil?
Sen ends up ascending the beyond the transcending bathhouse. She sees that she has a portion of Haku's blood on her hand. From her back to her hair, the paper bird moves; Sen looks around and sees the Yubaba bird returning to her rooms at the top of the bathhouse. Sen attempts to enter via a window; the paper bird falls through and opens it for her. She goes through a washroom down a lobby to a den, where the paper bird empowers her to hear Yubaba, who grumbles into the telephone that the issue visitor is a no-face soul who's eating individuals and that Haku is draining all around the floor covering. "Get him out of here-he'll be dead soon anyway," she sarcastically tells someone. Yubaba finds the big baby by digging through the cushions in the playroom, where Sen is still hiding. At the point when Yubaba leaves, the child, Bôh, gets Sen and blames her for being a microorganism from outside, come to make him wiped out. ( He never leaves his room so he will not become ill.) He takes steps to break her arm on the off chance that she won't play with him, so she shows him Haku's blood on her hand-"microorganisms!"- and he gives up.
Sen enters the main room, where Haku, dressed as a dragon, is bleeding. Bôh follows and again requests that Sen play with him. The paper bird transforms into a very much like lady Yubaba. She transforms the child into a mouse when he confuses her with his mom. She likewise transforms the more modest Yubaba-bird into a small, bug-like bird and transforms the three green heads into a copy of the huge child.
The lady makes sense of she's Zeniba (voice: Suzanne Pleshette, Yubaba's twin sister once more). She says Haku took her supernatural brilliant seal, and she needs it back. The seal conveys a revile that Zeniba says will kill any individual who takes it. She says he's a cheat he took Zeniba's seal, yet plans to take Yubaba's wizardry too. Haku snaps his tail and shreds the paper bird, which is lying on the floor covering; this activity cuts Zeniba in half through and through. " Gracious ho, a paper cut," she comments as she self-destructs.
Haku, still in dragon form, revives enough to fly Sen and Haku to the boiler room after they fall down a long shaft from the hearth through a hole. They almost end up among some spirits that looked evil. When there, Haku breakdowns; He continues to bleed. Kamajii says it looks serious-he is by all accounts draining from within. Sen causes him to eat a piece of the stream soul's gift. He fights and thrashs, spitting out Zeniba's gold seal and a black slug, which Sen kills when he steps on it. Haku changes back to human structure, yet all the same he's still sick and oblivious. Sen grabs the ring.
Kamajii says Haku, as Chihiro, showed up at the bathhouse all of a sudden and became pale-confronted and steely-peered toward once Yubaba accepted him as her student and oversaw him. He figures Zeniba could possibly help in the event that Sen asks, however Zeniba is extremely perilous; Sen concurs. She claims that Haku assisted her, and she now wishes to assist him. She says glumly, "I guess my parents will have to wait."
Lin comes to say that the quiet soul is a beast called No-face who has gulped three individuals; Lin says that Sen will be in big trouble for letting him in, but Sen admits that she let him in. Kamajii gives Sen train tickets-an intriguing fortune to go to Zeniba's home at Bog Base. He says the train just runs one way now, however it used to head down the two paths; Sen will have to return along the railroad tracks. At the point when Lin considers what's the deal with Sen and Haku, Kamajii says "Something you wouldn't perceive. It's called love." Yubaba instructs Sen to extract every last drop of gold from No-face before evicting him from the bathhouse, as No-face is calling for Sen. Before Sen goes in to see No-face, Yubaba inquires "why is that grimy mouse here?"- she doesn't perceive the mouse as her child.
"I'm not giving it to anyone else," says No-face when he offers Sen gold once more. She tells him that she wants to leave because she needs to go somewhere important, and that Yubaba doesn't want him in the bathhouse, so he should too. She inquires if he has a destination. He doesn't really; he grumbles that he's forlorn. No-face says he needs Sen-meaning he needs to eat her. She forces him to consume the remaining portion of the river spirit's gift instead, resulting in uncontrollable vomiting (on Yubaba at one point). Sen takes off and inspires him to follow her down many stairways.
At the foot of the steps, No-face hacks up several individuals he ate (who appear all good), and says "I'll get you for this, Sen." He shrivels down to his unique size. Lin turns up in a tub-like boat to take Sen to the train station. Sen calls No-face to follow her to the train, saying he wants to escape the bathhouse since it's making him insane. She's certain he won't hurt them. No-face hacks up the frog, who swims away.
A train arrives; Sen and No-face board, Sen gives the conductor their tickets, and they travel to Zeniba's home in Swamp Bottom. No-face has also returned to transparency, as are many of the passengers. The mouse (previously the child) and the bug-bird are with them. The landscape traversed by the train is almost entirely water-based.
In the engine compartment, Haku awakens and wakes Kamajii, who makes sense of that Sen has gone to Zeniba's and that she broke Zeniba's spell and relieved him with the force of unadulterated love.
In Yubaba's room, the artificial enormous child (really the three green heads) is eating while Yubaba sits close by with a portion of No-face's gold. Haku enters and informs her that something valuable has been replaced; The baby returns to the three heads when Yubaba looks closely, and the gold turns into dirt.
"The baby is with your sister," Haku declares. Yubaba inquires about his desire to retrieve the child. Haku responds that Yubaba must break Sen's contract and return her to the human world with both of her parents. Yubaba is in agreement, but only if Sen is able to pass a final test. She is mine if she fails!"
Sen and No-face board the train and head out in search of Zeniba. There's a dry way to stroll on. The bug-bird and the mouse alternate conveying one another yet get drained, so Sen allows them to ride on her shoulder. A bouncing light post leads them through the dim to Zeniba's home. The entryway opens and Zeniba abruptly welcomes them in. Zeniba still resembles Yubaba in appearance. She welcomes them to sit while she makes tea. Sen apologizes to Haku and returns the golden seal. Zeniba says "he cut me in two, you know, I'm as yet furious." Sen believes she's discussing the slug, which she concedes to having crushed, yet Zeniba says the slug was the way Yubaba controlled Haku. Zeniba's spell could have been broken only by love.
According to Zeniba, the spell on the mouse and the bug-bird expired a long time ago, and they can revert at any time. However, they are occupied with a spinning wheel and show no interest in altering their behavior.
Zeniba says Sen should assist her folks on her with buying; She needs to remember where she first met Haku in order to do that. She requests that Sen call her Granny. ( Zeniba now treats people very nicely.) The mouse and the bug-bird knit Sen a hair tie while No-face spins; Zeniba claims that because her friends made it for her, it will safeguard her.
The entryway clatters and Zeniba advises Sen to allow in another visitor: it's Haku in mythical beast structure. Zeniba says she'll pardon Haku assuming he deals with Sen. Zeniba requests that No-face stay with her-"I really want a decent partner"- and No-face concurs. After telling Granny her real name, Sen and the bug-bird and mouse board Haku's back and fly off. She recalls dropping her shoe in a river when she was very young, going in after it in fear of drowning, and being carried to shore by the river as they flew. It was the Kohaku Waterway. Haku is the Kohaku Stream soul, and can't find his direction home on the grounds that the waterway has been filled in. Haku transforms into a human and enjoys free fall for a while.
In human form, Sen and Haku fly to the bathhouse bridge. The mouse returns to the infant, who speaks for Sen. Yubaba needs to give Sen the last test, however the child objects, yet that's what sen concurs "an arrangement's an arrangement."
The test: From a crowd of pigs, Sen must choose her parents. You can try once; assuming you take care of business you can all return home." Sen expresses the pigs are generally not her folks; She passes the test, and Yubaba loses control of her contract. Expressing "gratitude for everything, Granny" (which shocks Yubaba, in light of the fact that she never requested to be called Granny), Sen escapes with Haku, who tells her folks are on the opposite side of the waterway. She needs to cross the riverbed and not think back until she's through the passage. He'll return to Yubaba, however at this point not in her bondage since he knows his name once more. He assures Sen that they will meet again. Sen-now Chihiro-hears her folks calling and rejoins them close to the passage mouth; They are fine and have no recollection of the events. They admonish her gently for running off.
At the point when they return to their vehicle, it's dusty and covered with leaves, like it had been there for quite a while. As they drive away, Father says "another home and new school-it is a digit frightening." Chihiro, much developed since her last vehicle ride, answers, "I want to deal with it."
