‘Spirited Away’ returns to theaters in April for Studio Ghibli Fest 2024

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Studio Ghibli fans who missed their changeable astatine watching Spirited Away in theaters past year tin effort again betwixt April 27th and May 1st astatine “U.S. cinemas nationwide.” The showings are portion of Studio Ghibli Fest 2024, which volition enactment 14 Ghibli films — with English dubbed and subtitled versions with the archetypal Japanese dependable enactment — backmost successful theaters passim the year. It’s not wide however galore theaters are involved, but successful my area, 5 theaters are showing Spirited Away over the people of arsenic galore days.

That’s the largest database of movies since Ghibli Fest started successful 2017. Others hitting theaters this twelvemonth see Miyazaki classics similar Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke, as good arsenic movies from different Ghibli directors, including Hiromasa Yonebayashi (The Secret World of Arrietty) and Hiroyuki Morita (The Cat Returns). An announcement from movie distributor Fathom Events says that the showings volition besides “include astonishment peculiar other content.”

The database of films besides includes Ponyo and Howl’s Moving Castle, 2 movies that, similar Spirited Away, Miyazaki made aft saying he’d retire. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, his astir caller one, The Boy and the Heron, isn’t successful the list.)

Not each movie volition spot arsenic galore showings — Nausicaä is listed with lone 3 showings during 1 May weekend, for instance. The 20th-anniversary variation of Howl’s Moving Castle gets the longest run, with mostly evening showings from September 26th done October 3rd.

Tickets are disposable straight from theatre container offices oregon done the websites of Fathom Events and distributor GKids. If you’re truly looking for the afloat precocious 90s / aboriginal 2000s nostalgia experience, you tin seemingly amusement disconnected your Ghibli Fest summons stub astatine a Hot Topic store and get a 25 percent discount “for in-store purchases.” Fathom’s announcement says “theater participants are taxable to change.”

Here’s the Studio Ghibli Fest 2024 docket from Fathom’s announcement (with section showtimes):

Spirited Away

Saturday, April 27 astatine 3:00 PM (SUB)

Sunday, April 28 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Monday, April 29 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Tuesday, April 30 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, May 1 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 40^th Anniversary

Sunday, May 19 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Tuesday, May 21 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Castle successful the Sky

Monday, May 20 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, May 22 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

The Secret World of Arrietty

Sunday, June 9 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Tuesday, June 11 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

When Marnie Was There 10th Anniversary

Monday, June 10 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, June 12 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Princess Mononoke

Saturday, July 13 astatine 3:00 PM (SUB)

Sunday, July 14 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Monday, July 15 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Tuesday, July 16 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, July 17 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Ponyo

Saturday, August 3 astatine 3:00 PM (SUB)

Sunday, August 4 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Monday, August 5 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Tuesday, August 6 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, August 7 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Whisper of the Heart

Sunday, August 25 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Tuesday, August 27 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

The Cat Returns

Monday, August 26 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, August 28 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Howl’s Moving Castle 20th Anniversary

Thursday, September 26 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Friday, September 27 astatine 7:00 (DUB)

Saturday, September 28 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Sunday, September 29 astatine 3:00 & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Monday, September 30 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Tuesday, October 1 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, October 2 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Thursday, October 3 astatine 7:00 (DUB)

Kiki’s Delivery Service 35th Anniversary

Saturday, October 26 astatine 3:00 PM (SUB)

Sunday, October 27 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Monday, October 28 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Tuesday, October 29 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, October 30 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Pom Poko 30th Anniversary

Sunday, November 24 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Tuesday, November 26 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

Monday, November 25 astatine 7:00 PM (DUB)

Wednesday, November 27 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

My Neighbor Totoro

Saturday, December 7 astatine 3:00 PM (SUB)

Sunday, December 8 astatine 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)

Monday, December 9 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)

Tuesday, December 10 astatine 7:00 (DUB)

Wednesday, December 11 astatine 7:00 PM (SUB)