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Back Ground: In Hayao Miyazaki’s <The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro>, Chihiro’s parents are turned into pigs for consuming food recklessly. Chihiro left alone, gets a job at a onsen in order to save the lives of herself and her parents, and grows up to be a responsible member of the community. Therefore, ‘transformation into a pig’ as an opportunity for self-reliance has an important narrative significance in <The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro>. Methods: In <The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro>, pigs are used as various symbols and are used as the main motif to depict the realities and human figures of Hayao Miyazaki. In <The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro>, pigs basically represent the arrogance of humans who refuse to work and pursue benefits, and this tendency is also aimed at hatred of humans. Conversely, pigs represent the plight of those who are imprisoned and imprisoned, and also represent the sense of loss of beings who have lost the standards of distinction and difference. Conclusions: In the end, pigs are food but not comfort food, and although they take the form of humans, they are portrayed as intermediate entities that are not humans. The various meanings of the pig are sometimes dismissed as traces of the Japanese and the bubble generation by Hayao Miyazaki. The variety of meanings of pigs in this work also means that the various characteristics of humans and contemporaries represented by pigs are secured within them. As such, it must be said that the contribution of the symbol of the pig to the formation of various meanings in <The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro> is significant.

Hayao Miyazaki, <The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro>, Pig, Human, Representation