Curated playlist
Japanese fantasy adventure films
- 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.
- Tales from Earthsea (film)Hayao Miyazaki never looked at his son Gorō's storyboard for Tales from Earthsea.
- 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.
- Mary and the Witch's FlowerMary and the Witch's Flower was the first film from Studio Ponoc, made after its director left Studio Ghibli.
- 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.
- The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the SunThe 1968 anime film Horus, Prince of the Sun played in Japanese theaters for only ten days.
- Pokémon: The First MovieSo many kids skipped school for Pokémon: The First Movie that the day got the nickname Pokéflu.
- Howl's Moving Castle (film)A curse turns Sophie into a 90-year-old woman, and she becomes bolder.