Hayao Miyazaki

The mythological tale of a war between encroaching civilization and the beast gods of the forest. (Miramax)

From the legendary director Hayao Miyazaki ("Princess Mononoke") (Studio Ghibli), this film follows the fanciful adventures of a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro, who discovers a secret world when she and her family get lost and venture through a hillside tunnel.

An amazing new animated adventure that celebrates the power of love to transform and the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of adversity. (Disney)

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

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby (imdb)

Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. (imdb)

A young girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy... (imdb)

A flamboyant thief and his gang struggle to free a princess from an evil count's clutches and to learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

The adventures of a 1930's bush pilot who just happens to look like a humanoid pig. (imdb)

Set in the future: Two men learn that a mysterious winged girl has been taken prisoner, and then decide that they must free her at any cost. (imdb)

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause... (imdb)

An animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human.

The film is about Koro the puppy, who runs away from his mistress, experiences some adventures around town and who is finally happily returned home. (wikipedia.org)

Kujiraori tells the story of school children playing that they're building a boat. As imagination replaces reality, they find themselves on the ocean, hunting for a whale. A big, gentle whale shows up, accompanies them back to land and play with them. Then the fantasy ends and the children are back in their class room. (wikipedia.org)

A thirteen minute sequel to My Neighbor Totoro, written and directed by Miyazaki.Chika Sakamoto, who voiced Mei in Totoro, returned to voice Mei in this short. Hayao Miyazaki himself did the voice of the Neko Ba-chan as well as Totoro. It concentrates on the character of Mei Kusakabe from the original film and her adventures one night with the Kittenbus (offspring of the Catbus from the film) and other cat-oriented vehicles. (wikipedia.org)

Fuki sets out with a big rucksack in high spirits on a journey to look for a new house. Along her way, Fuki encounters and befriends numerous manifestations of the natural world, from fish to insects to a kami who resembled Totoro. All the sound effects in this film were done by human voice. As a nod to the non-Japanese speaking audience, this short film contains little to no spoken Japanese, and the story is conveyed almost entirely through art and sound effects. (wikipedia.org)

The film tells how a boy moves from the city to the country. He works on a farm and one day when going to sell vegetables on a market, his cart breaks down. A stranger offers him a strange seed in exchange for the vegetables. The boy accepts and finds that the seed grows into a miniature planet. It continues growing as he tends to it, forming an atmosphere, weather systems and life. (wikipedia.org)

The short film's main character is a water spider who seems to have fallen in love with a water strider. Though she is scared of him at first, the water strider soon gets used to the presence of the spider. (wikipedia.org)

When her grandmother goes away on a trip, 7-year-old Mimiko stays at home by herself in her small, friendly village, unafraid of burglars. When she arrives back home from the train station where she saw her grandmother off, she discovers she has a visitor-a baby panda. (imdb)

The circus comes to town and Mimiko and the Pandas make friends with a tiny tiger.

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. (imdb)

Following in his father's footsteps, anime director Goro Miyazaki sets his story of young love and student protest against the period of Japanese modernization and revitalization ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. With charm and tragedy, Miyazaki takes a nostalgic look back at a time when the preservation of the past clashed with progress for the future. (tiff.net)

The scenario/story was conveived from/ influenced by the panting "The Harvesters" by the 16th century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel. Many recognizeable themes/ character designs from Miyazaki here. You will see the robot from Lupin TV Series 2 (the lasy Miyazaki episode iirc), later used in Laputa Castle in the Sky, has become the Dough Man/ Bread Man. Many scenes would later make their way to Howl's Moving Castle, and obviously Miyazaki was toying with the ideas for Howl here. (PTP)

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II. (imdb)

After the world is nearly destroyed by a war, a young boy and his friends must fight to save the world from those who seek to conquer what is left of civilization. (imdb)

In 1889, the world is on the pinnacle of great discoveries in technology. In mankind's grasp for the future, a sinister foe known only as Gargoyle, obsessed with restoring the former Atlantean empire to the glory it once held, begins his plans to take over the world. Nadia, with the help of a young inventor, Jean Ratlique, and Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus, must fight to save the world from Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis. Based on the Novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' by Jules Verne. (myanimelist.net)

In the form of a humanoid pig, Hayao Miyazaki narrates the story of flight and the many machines imagined to achieve it. (imdb)

A 14-minute animated movie about a diving bell spider who seems to have fallen in love with a water strider.

An old farmer discovers a group of rats heading to a sumo wrestling bout. After they lose miserably, he decides to feed the rats to boost their chances of winning. (wikipedia.org) Screened only at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka.

The film depicts the psychological growth of a teenage boy through interactions with his friends and uncle (imdb.com).

Based on the critically-acclaimed Studio Ghibli film of the same name, Spirited Away tells the story of a young girl named Chihiro who finds herself trapped in a mysterious bathhouse inhabited by spirits; her parents have also been sucked into the spirit world, and so Chihiro must save them (and herself) and return to the human world. The stage production uses puppets and practical effects to recreate the movie’s iconic characters and beautiful visuals.

The first specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breathtaking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus, and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called “The Nautilus Story”, which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle.

The second specially edited memorial episode features Jean’s narration. This is a breathtaking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus, and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called “The Nautilus Story”, which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle. …

The third and final specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breathtaking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus, and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called "The Nautilus Story", which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle.