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Nippon Television films
- 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…
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film)In 1960, Isao Takahata prepared a potential adaptation of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter for Toei Animation. That project never came to fruition.
- Princess MononokeHayao Miyazaki composed the preliminary ideas for what would become Princess Mononoke in 1980 after releasing his first film, The Castle of Cagliostro.
- PonyoA five-year-old boy named Sōsuke cuts his finger while shattering a glass jar on the shore of a small fishing town. A goldfish-like creature named Brunhilde…
- When Marnie Was There (film)Anna Sasaki stands alone in the Kushiro wetlands of Hokkaido. Her asthma attack at school had sent her to this rural seaside town between Kushiro and Nemuro.
- ArriettyOn the 16th of December 2009, Studio Ghibli announced the film Karigurashi no Arrietty for release in 2010. This announcement marked the feature directorial…
- 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…
- 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.