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Anime films based on manga

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind arrived in Japanese cinemas on the 11th of March 1984, carrying a story set one thousand years after an apocalyptic war…
  • Berserk: The Golden Age ArcBerserk: The Golden Age Arc arrived in Japanese cinemas on the 4th of February 2012, promising something the franchise had never attempted before: a…
  • The Cat ReturnsIn 1995, Studio Ghibli released a film titled Whisper of the Heart. That project introduced Baron, a cat figurine who came to life within a fantasy sequence.
  • Only Yesterday (1991 film)Hotaru Okamoto published the manga Omoide Poro Poro in 1982, establishing a quiet story about a young girl named Taeko. Yuko Tone drew the illustrations that…
  • Whisper of the HeartWhisper of the Heart is a 1995 Japanese animated film that begins with a small, almost invisible mystery: a girl notices that every library book she picks up…
  • Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)Mamoru Oshii originally wanted to direct Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade after he finished Patlabor 2: The Movie in 1993. He proposed the project to Bandai Visual…
  • The Wind RisesHayao Miyazaki began conceiving the story of The Wind Rises in 2008, marking his first feature film since Ponyo. He published a manga series based on this…
  • Akira (1988 film)Akira exploded onto Japanese screens on the 16th of July 1988, the same date the film's own story marks as the day Tokyo was obliterated by a mysterious…
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen TrainTanjiro Kamado steps onto the Mugen Train with his sister Nezuko and friends Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke Hashibira. They board to assist Flame Hashira…
  • Porco RossoPorco Rosso is a 1992 Japanese animated film by Hayao Miyazaki about a man who has become a pig. Not metaphorically. Marco Pagot, an Italian ace from the…
  • My Neighbors the YamadasIsao Takahata directed My Neighbors the Yamadas in 1999 for Studio Ghibli. The project began as an adaptation of Hisaichi Ishii's Nono-chan manga series.
  • Mind Game (film)Mind Game arrived in Japanese cinemas in 2004 as the directorial debut of Masaaki Yuasa, a film that would go on to earn a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes…