Oscar-winning anime film "Spirited Away" to debut as stage play

Oscar-winning animation film "Spirited Away" by renowned Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki will be adapted into a stage play for the first time in February next year, a Japanese entertainment production company said Friday.Two actresses, Mone Kamishiraishi and Kanna Hashimoto, have been cast in the stage production in Tokyo as the female protagonist Chihiro, who stumbles into a world with supernatural beings in the 2001 fantasy movie created by Studio Ghibli Inc., said Toho Co.Kamishiraishi, 23, voiced the heroine Mitsuha Miyamizu in the 2016 fantasy animation blockbuster "your name." by Mak…READ FULL ARTICLE