Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece
Hayao Miyazaki (1941-) is one of the core figures of the famous Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli. His Spirited Away is the first Japanese animation to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the first animation to win the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
# Spirited Away
Year: 2001 | Country: Japan
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi
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A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family
# Kiki's Delivery Service
Year: 1989 | Country: Japan
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A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
# My Neighbor Totoro
Year: 1988 | Country: Japan
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Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When t
# Howl's Moving Castle
Year: 2004 | Country: Japan
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Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the kin
# Castle in the Sky
Year: 1986 | Country: Japan
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A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
# Porco Rosso
Year: 1992 | Country: Japan
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Shūichirō Moriyama , Tokiko Kato , Bunshi Katsura VI , Tsunehiko Kamijô , Akemi Okamura
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In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.
# The Secret World of Arrietty
Year: 2010 | Country: Japan
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cast: Mirai Shida , Ryunosuke Kamiki , Tomokazu Miura , Keiko Takeshita , Kirin Kiki
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14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
# Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Year: 1984 | Country: Japan
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Sumi Shimamoto , Ichiro Nagai , Gorō Naya , Youji Matsuda , Yoshiko Sakakibara
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After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
# Ponyo
Year: 2008 | Country: Japan
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When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who