Spirited Away’s Oscar win was a wake-up call for a lot of people in the film business who had been disregarding Japanese animation for years .It prompted a behind-the-scenes rights-rush, as several movie companies hoped to cash in on anime releases; it also represented a high point in Disney’s then-distribution partnership with Studio Ghibli, which raised broader global awareness of its catalogue. Throughout this tale, nature is intrinsically magical; humans often seem comparatively graceless, destructive, and given to disastrous materialism. Which film do you think really captured the millennium greatest fear ?

