Hello, everyone. Today I am going to talk about movies. A lot of well-known movies were produced in America or Britain. Like Harry Potter, the Avengers and so on. But today I am going to talk about an animated film which is known as the most successful film in Japanese history. I think most of you can guess the name of the movie. Yes, that is Spirited Away. And the Chinese name is “千与千寻”.

Spirited Away was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Since the movie was on the screen in 2001, it has gained a lot of compliments. To be frank, it was a classical and influential film. The movie is a story about a little sullen girl?s father discovers a new place and he insists on exploring. But the family accidentally enters the spirit world. Chihiro finds an mysterious and exquisite house, also she meets a boy who called Haku while her parents are eating at an empty restaurant. Haku warns her to leave this place immediately before sunset. Chihiro went back to the restaurant and found that her parents have turned into pigs and she can?t follow Haku?s directions to cross the river. She is very afraid and she understands that she is now trapped in a mystical realm. The only way to survive is to find a job. With the help of Haku and Lin Chihiro find a job in the bathhouse which is runs by a witch called Yubaba. But the witch takes her name that she is not able to leave the spirit world. In order to free herself and her parents, Chihiro becomes more independent，stronger and more understanding while she was working in the bathhouse.

In my opinion, it is a meaningful and interesting story. To be frank, we can learn a lot from theses stories and the main characters. From her parents, we can understand that we can?t be so greedy. And there is other inspiration of our life. The most important thing is that we should be kind, brave and strong. And we should know how to control ourselfves in the face of temptation and how to overcome all the difficulties in distress. What I learn from this story? The first one is forbearance. The second one is kindness. And the third one is honesty. From this story , we can know how precious friendships are! A friend is a person who cares about you. Just like the famous saying goes ?Friendship multiplies joys and divides grief”.(友谊可以增添快乐，分担忧愁)

第二篇：千与千寻英语简介

Chihiro Ogino, a 10-year-old girl, moves with her parents to a new town when they become lost and find what appears to be an Chihiro's father insists on exploring it, and she and her mother reluctantly accompany him. Chihiro's parents sample the food at an unattended stall. After Chihiro wanders off and finds a grand , a boy approaches and warns her to leave before nightfall. When Chihiro runs back to her parents, she finds they have been transformed into pigs, and the park starts to swarm with monsters.

She eventually learns from Haku, the boy she had met earlier, that her family has become trapped in the spirit world. He also reveals that he had known her since she was a child. Haku brings Chihiro to the bathhouse where he tells her to see Kamaji, a six-armed man who works the boiler room, to ask for a job. Rejecting Chihiro's request, Kamaji entrusts her to Lin, a bathhouse worker. Lin takes her to see Yubaba, the witch who runs the bathhouse. Denying Chihiro's request to work, Yubaba eventually allows her to work on the condition that her name is changed to Sen (千?), the

first of Chihiro's name. Having been told from Haku that Yubaba controls her servants by taking their names, Chihiro is warned that if she forgets her real name, she will be trapped in the world forever.

While working as Lin's assistant, Sen allows a mysterious masked spirit to enter. Later, a "stink spirit" enters the bathhouse. Sen

eventually cleans the stink spirit, revealing himself to be a spirit of a polluted river. In return for restoring his health, the river spirit Sen eventually realizes Haku is actually a . Having been seriously injured his dragon form by a , Yubaba orders her servants to kill Haku, but is eventually rescued by Sen. The

shikigami reveals herself to be Zeniba, Yubaba's twin sister. Zeniba transforms Boh, Yubaba's large baby son, into a mouse and her bird into a smaller bird, demanding the gold seal to be given back. Haku and Sen flee and fall into the boiler room again, where she feeds him part of the dumpling. Haku coughs up the gold seal and a black slug, which Sen crushes with her foot. Kamaji gives Sen train tickets to visit Zeniba and to beg her to lift the curse on the seal. Boh, in his mouse form, and the bird accompany her.

Meanwhile, the masked spirit Sen allowed into the bathhouse reveals himself as a monster called "No Face." No Face, who

swallows one of the servants, a frog, in order to speak, offers gold to the staff in exchange for large quantities of food. No Face continues to eat, causing it to grow to immense size, eventually

swallowing several other employees. Later, Sen feeds No Face the remainder of the dumpling, causing him to regurgitate everything and everyone out. Restored to his prior inoffensive form, No Face also accompanies Sen to Zeniba's house.

Haku regains consciousness and learns that Sen has gone to see Zeniba. Yubaba, enraged by both the damage caused by No Face and Sen's departure, orders Sen's parents to be killed. Haku appears and warns Yubaba that something precious to her has been replaced, and she realizes that Boh has disappeared. Telling her that Boh is with Zeniba, Haku proposes should he return Boh, Yubaba will allow Sen and her parents to return the human world. However, Yubaba also insists that Sen has to take one final test. Sen, Boh, and No Face arrive at Zeniba's house and find Zeniba to be friendly. Zeniba says Sen's love broke the seal's spell, and the slug Sen killed was the curse Yubaba had used to enslave Haku. Haku appears in his dragon form to pick up Sen and Boh, while No Face remains with Zeniba. Realizing that Sen once fell into the Kohaku River as a child, she guesses Haku is the spirit of the river who saved her, freeing Haku from Yubaba's spell.

Haku returns Boh to Yubaba, and Sen, now called Chihiro, is offered a final test to guess her parents from a group of pigs. She correctly answers that none of them are her parents. Haku leads

her towards the entrance of the park and promises they will see each other again. Chihiro reunites with her parents, who do not recall their experiences, and the family depart from the park.

Whisper of the Heart, known in Japan as Mimi o Sumaseba (耳をすませば?,.lit. If You Listen Closely) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Aoi Hiiragi. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's shōjo manga magazine Ribon between August and November 1989. A single bound volume was released in February 1990. A second manga by the same author titled Mimi o Sumaseba: Shiawase na Jikan was serialized in Shueisha's Ribon Original in 1995; a single volume of this manga was released in February 1996.

A single volume containing both manga under the title Mimi o Sumaseba was released in July 2005.

A novel, written by Masami Tanaka, was published by Shueisha in June 1995 under the title Mimi o Sumaseba. In 1995, the original manga was adapted into an anime feature film of the same name by Studio Ghibli. Although the film shares similar instances and plot, it is not based strictly on the manga itself.