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Spirited Away Gets 1st Theatrical Release in China
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Yahoo! News reported on Monday that Spirited Away anime film will have a theatrical release in China, 18 years after its 2001 debut in Japan. Chinese company Sina announced the screening earlier this month with a new poster for the film (seen below).
second-highest earning Japanese film in China in 2018. However, it had earned only 159 million yuan ($23.67 million) when 2018 ended. Before the film's theatrical screening, Studio Ghibli said that it planned to release other films in China if My Neighbor Totoro was successful.
Spirited Away was previously the highest-grossing anime film worldwide until January 2017, when sured the record. The film remains the only non-English-language title to win the Academy Awards' Best Animated Feature award, which it earned in 2003.
re-released the film on Blu-ray Disc in October 2017. The film premiered in North America in 2002.
Sources: Yahoo! News, The Hollywood Reporter (Gavin J. Blair), Eiga Natalie
