(✘ Not watched yet ✓ Already seen)
- ✓ Spirited Away (2001) : Japanese: 千と千尋の神隠し Hepburn: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, “Sen and Chihiro’s Spiriting Away” [ Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Studio Ghibli ]
- ✓ Princess Mononoke (1997) : Japanese: もののけ姫 Hepburn: Mononoke-hime, “Spirit/Monster Princess” [ Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Studio Ghibli ]
- ✓ My Neighbor Totoro (1988) : Japanese: となりのトトロ Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro [ Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Studio Ghibli ]
- ✘ Grave of the Fireflies (1988) : Japanese: 火垂るの墓 Hepburn: Hotaru no Haka [Director: Isao Takahata | Studio: Studio Ghibli]
- ✓ Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) : Japanese: ハウルの動く城 Hepburn: Hauru no Ugoku Shiro [ Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Studio Ghibli ]
- ✓ The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006): Japanese: 時をかける少女 Hepburn: Toki o Kakeru Shōjo [Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Studio: Kadokawa Herald Pictures]
- ✓ Castle in the Sky (1986) : Japanese: 天空の城ラピュタ Hepburn: Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta, known as “Laputa: Castle in the Sky” in the United Kingdom and Australia [Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Studio Ghibli (1st movie)]
- ✘ Perfect Blue (1997): Japanese: パーフェクトブルー Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū [Director: Satoshi Kon | studio: Madhouse]
- ✓ Your Name (2016) : Japanese: 君の名は。 Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa [Director: Makoto Shinkai | Studio: CoMix Wave Films]
- ✓ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) : Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika [ Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Topcraft (even though made before the establishment of Ghibli, this movie is considered a Ghibli movie)]
- ✘ Summer Wars (2009) : Japanese: サマーウォーズ Hepburn: Samā Wōzu [Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Studio: Madhouse ]
- ✘ Millennium Actress (2001) : Japanese: 千年女優 Hepburn: Sennen Joyū [Director: Satoshi Kon | Studio: Madhouse]
- ✓ Ghost in the Shell (1995): known in Japan as Mobile Armored Riot Police: Ghost in the Shell | Japanese:攻殻機動隊 GHOST IN THE SHELL Hepburn: Kōkaku Kidōtai Gōsuto In Za Sheru [ Director: Mamoru Oshii | Studio: Production I.G,
Manga Entertainment] - ✓ Akira (1988): [Director: Katsuhiro Otomo | Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha]
- ✘ Tokyo Godfathers (2003) : Japanese: 東京ゴッドファーザーズ Hepburn: Tōkyō Goddofāzāzu [ Director: Satoshi Kon | Studio: Madhouse]
- ✓ Wolf Children (2012) : Japanese: おおかみこどもの雨と雪 Hepburn: Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki, lit. “Wolf Children Ame and Yuki” [ Mamoru Hosoda | Studio Chizu,Madhouse]
- ✘ Ponyo (2008) : Japanese: 崖の上のポニョ Hepburn: Gake no Ue no Ponyo, literally “Ponyo on the Cliff” [Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Studio Ghibli]
- ✓ 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007): Japanese: 秒速5センチメートル Hepburn: Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru [Director: Makoto Shinkai | CoMix Wave Inc]
- ✘ Ninja Scroll (1993): Japanese: 獣兵衛忍風帖 Hepburn:Jūbē Ninpūchō, lit. “Jubei the Wind Ninja” [Directed: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | JVC, Toho, Movic, Madhouse, Animate Film ]
- ✘ Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989): Japanese: 魔女の宅急便 Hepburn: Majo no Takkyūbin, “Witch’s Delivery Service” [Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Studio Ghibli]
- ✘ The Wind Rises (2013) : Japanese: 風立ちぬ Hepburn: Kaze Tachinu [Director: Hayao Miyazaki | studio: Studio Ghibli]
- ✓ The Secret World of Arrietty (2010): Japanese: 借りぐらしのアリエッティ Hepburn: Kari-gurashi no Arietti [Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | studio: Studio Ghibli]
- ✓ Sword of the Stranger (2007): Japanese: ストレンヂア 無皇刃譚 Hepburn: Sutorenjia Mukōhadan, Stranger Mukōhadan [Director: Masahiro Andō | studio: Bones]
- ✘ When Marnie Was There (2014): Japanese: 思い出のマーニー Hepburn: Omoide no Mānī, literally Marnie of [My] Memories [Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Studio: Ghibli]
- ✓ The Garden of Words (2013): Japanese: 言の葉の庭 Hepburn: Kotonoha no Niwa [Director: Makoto Shinkai | Studio: CoMix Wave Films] (best artwork ever! plot is meh..)
The Otaku Judge
November 20, 2017 at 4:52 am
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Wolf Children are great. I don’t think I’ll ever check out Grave of the Fireflies, as I hear it is really depressing.
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StupidFool
November 21, 2017 at 6:48 am
I agree with you. It took me more than 3 tries to finish it without crying.. very sad story. Still one of my favorites.
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