Curated playlist
Films with screenplays by Hayao Miyazaki
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)The English version of Nausicaä was cut by about 22 minutes and renamed her Princess Zandra.
- Castle in the SkyCastle in the Sky began as a way to recover money spent on a canal documentary.
- My Neighbor TotoroEight animators finished My Neighbor Totoro in just eight months. They spent one full month on a tadpole scene alone.
- Kiki's Delivery ServiceKiki's Delivery Service was first planned as a 60-minute TV special. It grew into a 102-minute feature.
- Spirited AwayIn Spirited Away, a girl's parents turn into pigs in an abandoned resort town. Ten-year-old Chihiro is left alone.
- Princess MononokeHayao Miyazaki spent seventeen years getting Princess Mononoke made.
- PonyoMiyazaki shut down Studio Ghibli's computer graphics section to make Ponyo. He wanted the film hand-drawn.
- Whisper of the HeartWhisper of the Heart begins when a girl sees the same name on every library book she borrows.
- ArriettyA handwritten envelope led a French musician to score Studio Ghibli's Arrietty.
- The Wind RisesIn The Wind Rises, a boy with weak eyes builds planes instead of flying them. It follows engineer Jiro Horikoshi.
- Panda! Go, Panda!In Panda Kopanda, a girl home alone finds a panda cub asleep on her back doorstep.
- Porco RossoIn the film Porco Rosso, an Italian war hero has become a pig. Nobody in the story explains why.
- The Boy and the HeronThe Boy and the Heron reached Japanese theaters with one poster and no trailer.
- Howl's Moving Castle (film)A curse turns Sophie into a 90-year-old woman, and she becomes bolder.