Studio Ghibli
Founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuk after the success of their 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. A small, independent studio featuring films by Miyazaki, and partner Takahata. The title of the studio means "wind."
Most of Ghibli's films are distributed in Japan by Toho, and internationally by the Walt Disney Company.
Series
Cartoons
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Kaze No Tani No Naushika
In the far future, man has destroyed the Earth in the "Seven Days of Fire". Now, there are small pockets of humanity that survive. One pocket is the Valley of Wind where a princess named Na…
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Tenkû No Shiro Rapyuta
As Pazu, the apprentice of the engineer who maintains a mine's elevator machinery, carries his boss's dinner back to the mine, an unconscious pigtailed girl floats down from the sky into hi…
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Hotaru no haka
As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Se…
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Tonari No Totoro
Totoro is the deceptively simple tale of two girls, Satsuki and Mei, who move with their father to a house in the country while their mother is in hospital. They soon discover that the surr…
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Majo No Takkyûbin
Kiki has just turned 13. That is an important milestone in a witch's life, for once a witch turns 13, it is time for her to go out and find a city to settle in for a year to complete her wi…
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Omohide Poro Poro
A double period piece that beautifully evokes both the 1960s and 1980s, this is also a quintessential drama of Japanese school-day nostalgia. Bored twentysomething Taeko, realizing that she…
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Kurenai No Buta
The adventures of a 1930s bush pilot who just happens to have the head of a pig. In 1930s Balkans, only one pilot rules the skies: Porco Rosso, a talented pilot who, due to a magic spell, h…
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Umi Ga Kikoeru
A subtle, poignant and wonderfully detailed story of adolescence and teenage isolation. Taku and best friend Yutaka are headed back to school for what looks like another uneventful year. Th…
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Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pompoko
A community of magical shape-shifting raccoons desperately struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development. As civilization draws ever nearer to their idylli…
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Mimi O Sumaseba
Aspiring writer Shizuku is spending her last summer vacation before high school reading as many books as she can and translating foreign music into Japanese. Perusing the eclectic choices s…
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Mononoke Hime
A prince is infected with an incurable disease by a possessed boar/god. He is to die unless he can find a cure to rid the curse from his body. It seems that his only hope is to travel to th…
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Hôhokekyo Tonari No Yamadâkun
The little victories of quirky Takashi Yamada and his wacky wife Matsuko are followed in this touching animation. The Yamadas navigate their way through the ups and downs of work, marriage…
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Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi
A young girl who was sadly forced to move to another city with her parents finds herself trapped in a mystical world where humans are not quite welcome and gods are to be seen everywhere. T…
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Neko No Ongaeshi
An ordinary 17-year-old girl learns to be herself through a strange experience in the Kingdom of Cats. Haru is not finding life as a teenager in modern Japan to her liking. She finds the ru…
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Hauru No Ugoku Shiro
Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl and is subs…
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Gedo Senki
The film is loosely based on The Farthest Shore, the third novel in the quartet of books by Ursula LeGuin. Prince Arren comes of age on a long voyage with Archmage Ged (Sparrowhawk) and lea…
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Gake No Ue No Ponyo
A small town by the sea. Five-year-old Sosuke lives high on a cliff overlooking the Inland Sea. One morning, while playing on the rocky beach below his house, he discovers a goldfish named…
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Karigurashi No Arietti
Fourteen-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life ch…
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Kokurikozaka Kara
Set in Yokohama, Japan in 1963, a high school girl named Umi Komatsuzaki has to grow up quickly when her father goes missing.
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Kaze Tachinu
The story of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the World War II fighter plane the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Inspired by the aesthetics of design and the freedom of flying, Jiro Horikoshi pursues a…
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Kaguya Hime no Monogatari
In this 10th century folktale, a princess named Kaguya is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. Princess Kaguya become a beautiful girl, and enthralls five noble…
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Omoide no Mânî
A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is pos…
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The Red Turtle
A ship is wrecked; the castaways find shelter in a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds. The film will tell the major life stages of a human being.
