Watch Miyazaki lose his mind in real-time making a masterpiece.
View this Japanese television special to get an insider's peek into Studio Ghibli during the creation of Spirted Away.
Direction
Maiko Yahata's invisible camera captures raw, unguarded moments.
Acting
Miyazaki's volcanic creative process is performance art itself.
Director
Maiko Yahata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Miyazaki storyboarded the entire 125-minute film entirely by himself — no writers' room, no assistants touching the core vision.
The 'onsen' setting wasn't aesthetic whim — Miyazaki specifically wanted to explore Japan's forgotten working-class spaces as capitalist critique.
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