Understand Sen's journey to Zeniba, the difference between the twin sisters, and how No-Face changes away from the bathhouse.
A one-way ticket
A quiet train across a flooded world
To return the seal and save Haku, Sen decides to go to Zeniba herself. Kamaji gives her old tickets for a train that runs across the water. With Sen go a subdued No-Face (away from the bathhouse, with no one's greed around him, he becomes quiet and meek again), Boh, whom Zeniba has turned into a little mouse, and a little bird helper.
The ride across the flooded plain under the evening sky is one of the quietest and most beautiful scenes in the film. The train runs only one way — there is no way back; it is an image of growing up, a road with no turning back. The fellow passengers are silent, translucent shadows.
Zeniba lives in a modest cottage in the fields, nothing like the lavish bathhouse. Yubaba's twin, she looks almost exactly like her but is her opposite: calm, kind, and welcoming. She serves tea, forgives Haku (seeing that Sen acts out of love), and says that magic can't help here: “what has happened once is never forgotten; sometimes it just isn't remembered.” Sen must remember and do it all herself. Zeniba keeps No-Face as her helper; with her, he finally finds peace.
Lesson notes
A quiet train across a flooded world
To return the seal and save Haku, Sen decides to go to Zeniba herself. Kamaji gives her old tickets for a train that runs across the water. With Sen go a subdued No-Face (away from the bathhouse, with no one's greed around him, he becomes quiet and meek again), Boh, whom Zeniba has turned into a little mouse, and a little bird helper.
The ride across the flooded plain under the evening sky is one of the quietest and most beautiful scenes in the film. The train runs only one way — there is no way back; it is an image of growing up, a road with no turning back. The fellow passengers are silent, translucent shadows.
Zeniba lives in a modest cottage in the fields, nothing like the lavish bathhouse. Yubaba's twin, she looks almost exactly like her but is her opposite: calm, kind, and welcoming. She serves tea, forgives Haku (seeing that Sen acts out of love), and says that magic can't help here: “what has happened once is never forgotten; sometimes it just isn't remembered.” Sen must remember and do it all herself. Zeniba keeps No-Face as her helper; with her, he finally finds peace.