Curated category
Anime films with original screenplays
- Castle in the SkyCastle in the Sky opened in 103 Japanese theaters on the 2nd of August 1986, carrying on its shoulders the future of a brand-new animation studio that had…
- My Neighbor TotoroMy Neighbor Totoro, a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, opens on a family driving to an old house in the…
- Spirited AwaySpirited Away opens on a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro Ogino riding in her parents' imported Audi, sulking about moving to a new neighborhood.
- Princess MononokePrincess Mononoke arrived in Japanese cinemas on the 12th of July, 1997, and within days the newspapers had a name for what was happening: the "Mononoke…
- Pom PokoPom Poko, a 1994 animated film from Studio Ghibli, opens not with heroes or villains but with raccoon dogs fighting each other over scraps of shrinking…
- PonyoPonyo begins with a goldfish-like creature trapped inside a glass jar, drifting toward shore on the back of a jellyfish.
- The Boy and the HeronThe Boy and the Heron, a 2023 fantasy film from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, reached Japanese theaters behind a single poster and nothing else.
- The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the SunThe Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun arrived in Japanese cinemas in 1968, carrying ambitions that no anime film had openly declared before it.
- Your NameYour Name began, in a sense, on the ruined streets of a fishing village called Yuriage. Its director, Makoto Shinkai, visited the town in July 2011, months…
- Momotaro: Sacred SailorsMomotaro: Sacred Sailors screened for the first time on the 12th of April 1945. Director Mitsuyo Seo made it by order of the Japanese Naval Ministry.