Curated category
Japanese fantasy adventure 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…
- Tales from Earthsea (film)In 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin received a call from Hayao Miyazaki through the bookseller Iwanami Shoten. She turned him down because she had not seen his films…
- Spirited AwayTen-year-old Chihiro Ogino and her parents Akio and Yūko travel to their new home. Akio takes a shortcut through a tunnel leading to what appears to be an…
- Princess MononokeHayao Miyazaki composed the preliminary ideas for what would become Princess Mononoke in 1980 after releasing his first film, The Castle of Cagliostro.
- Mary and the Witch's FlowerIn 1971, Mary Stewart published a children's book titled The Little Broomstick. A few months after its release, Walt Disney Productions acquired the film…
- Porco RossoHayao Miyazaki began work on Porco Rosso in 1989 with a manga titled Hikōtei Jidai. The project started as a planned short film for Japan Airlines to show…
- The Boy and the HeronHayao Miyazaki stood before a press conference in Tokyo on the 14th of September 2013 and declared his retirement from feature animation.
- The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the SunIn autumn 1965, Isao Takahata began work on a project that would become his first feature film. The title was Horus, Prince of the Sun.
- Pokémon: The First MovieIn a laboratory on New Island, a cloned Pokémon named Mewtwo gains sentience and immediately questions his right to exist.
- Howl's Moving Castle (film)Studio Ghibli announced the production of two films in September 2001. The second project was an adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' novel Howl's Moving Castle.