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1980s Japanese-language films

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)One thousand years after the Seven Days of Fire, a vast forest swarms with giant mutant insects. The air carries poison that kills any human who breathes it…
  • Castle in the SkyOn the 15th of June 1985, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata founded Studio Ghibli in Tokyo. The new studio emerged from the commercial success of Nausicaä of…
  • My Neighbor TotoroIn 1950s Japan, a university professor named Tatsuo Kusakabe moves his two daughters into an old house near a hospital. His wife Yasuko stays there to…
  • Kiki's Delivery ServiceIn 1987, Group Fudosha approached Kadono's publishers to adapt the novel into a feature film. The studio sought either Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata for…
  • Ran (film)Akira Kurosawa conceived the idea for Ran in the mid-1970s while reading about the Sengoku-period warlord Mōri Motonari.
  • Akira (1988 film)Katsuhiro Otomo agreed to adapt his manga into an animated film only after securing a guarantee of total creative control.
  • Royal Space Force: The Wings of HonnêamiseIn September 1984, Hiroyuki Yamaga and Toshio Okada stood before Shigeru Watanabe of Bandai to pitch a project that would become Royal Space Force.