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Japanese director and manga artist Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning anime film
Spirited Away (2001) will be adapted as a stage production, according to a recent announcement from Japanese entertainment company Toho Co.
Spirited Away’s world premiere stage production will take place at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo next February.
John Caird, honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, has been tapped to write and direct the stage adaptation.
Canadian-born British theatre maker Caird, 72, is internationally renowned for adapting and co-directing the world premiere of the legendary musical Les Miserables, and for creating theatrical shows such as
Daddy Long Legs and
Spirited Away. John Caird, who worked on
Les Misérables and
Daddy Long Legs in the past, will write and direct it. It will premiere in Tokyo in February 2022.
Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi were both cast as Chihiro. Hashimoto played Ritsu in the
Assassination Classroom film adaptation and Kagura in the live-action
Gintama film. This will also be Hashimoto’s debut role as a stage actor. Kamishiraishi voiced Mitsuha Miyamizu in
Your Name and Keno in
Wolf Children. Kamishiraishi has worked with Caird in the past on
Knight’s Tale, a musical that premiered in Japan in 2018.
Spirited Away is a universally acclaimed animated film that was produced by Studio Ghibli in 2001. It was the highest-grossing film in Japanese history for 19 years until
Toho Co., Ltd. has just announced the world premiere of a new theatrical production based on Studio Ghibli s Oscar-winning film SPIRITED AWAY (original title: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi). This production will be the first ever stage adaptation of the 2001 animated masterpiece by Hayao Miyazaki which became a massive box office hit in Japan and earned worldwide acclaim including Academy Award for Best Animated Feature of 2002.
The Tony and Olivier Award-winning director and Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, John Caird (Les Misérables, Nicholas Nickleby, Daddy Long Legs), who has been an admirer of the film for years will write and direct the stage adaptation.