Discuss one of the social or cultural values reflected in the film. Explain how the film represents the value through its narrative, characters, or other elements.
A cultural value reflected in Spirited Away is Shinto belief, an ethnic religion of Japan that practices the belief of the connection between nature and humanity. One of the key rules of Shintoism is that one should not destruct the environment. Two characters in the film successfully represent such value. The first is the stink spirit that arrives at the bathhouse for a wash. The staff at first attempts to drive the creature away but fails. Chihiro discovers something sticking from the side of the creature and pulls it, eventually realizing that the creature is not a monster but a river spirit who was contaminated by the human pollution of his river. After he was fully cleansed, he was freed as a dragon. The river spirit represents two values of Shintoism: that human pollution causes harm on nature, and that such negative damages on the environment can be repaired with human