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1. Spirited Away (2001)
PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi
Votes: 847,741 | Gross: $10.06M
2. Your Name. (2016)
PG | 106 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yûki
Votes: 319,136 | Gross: $5.02M
3. Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Billy Crudup
Votes: 433,062 | Gross: $2.38M
4. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
PG | 119 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin, Akihiro Miwa
Votes: 448,160 | Gross: $4.71M
5. The Day I Bought a Star (2006)
16 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A young boy is tired of the city and escapes into the country. Two strangers trade him a strange seed. The boy accepts and the seed sprouts into a miniature planet, which continues to grow.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Kyôka Suzuki, Genzô Wakayama, Yô Ôizumi
Votes: 368
6. A Sumo Wrestler's Tail (2010)
13 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
It tells the story of an old man and his wife who help out some mice who engage in sumo. As a reward, one of the mice gives them enough gold on which to live for the rest of their lives.
Director: Akihiko Yamashita | Stars: Tomo Adachi, Sawako Agawa, Aiko Hibi, Yukiko Kurihara
Votes: 55
7. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
G | 86 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi
Votes: 379,513 | Gross: $1.11M
8. Castle in the Sky (1986)
PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
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.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui, Minori Terada
Votes: 182,061
9. Mei and the Kitten Bus (2002)
13 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A Kittenbus puppy, the cat-shaped bus that is one of the protagonists of My Neighbor Totoro, becomes a great friend of little Mei and with her has an incredible night adventure in the forest.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Hayao Miyazaki, Chika Sakamoto
Votes: 1,697
10. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
G | 103 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
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.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi
Votes: 165,134
11. Whisper of the Heart (1995)
G | 111 min | Animation, Drama, Family
A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
Director: Yoshifumi Kondô | Stars: Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi
Votes: 72,469
12. Porco Rosso (1992)
PG | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Bunshi Katsura VI, Tsunehiko Kamijô
Votes: 101,858
13. The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 64 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Joker goes to Metropolis with an offer and plan to kill Superman for Lex Luthor while Batman pursues the clown to Superman's turf.
Director: Toshihiko Masuda | Stars: Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill
Votes: 9,972
14. House-hunting (2006)
12 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Fuki sets out on a journey to look for a new house. Along the way, she encounters many of Japan's guardian spirits.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Tamori, Akiko Yano
Votes: 227
15. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 50,313
16. Ponyo (2008)
G | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Votes: 163,134 | Gross: $15.09M
17. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
G | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter Arrietty is discovered.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Mirai Shida
Votes: 104,142 | Gross: $19.20M
18. When Marnie Was There (2014)
PG | 103 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Anna, a shy 12-year-old girl, is sent to spend time with her aunt and uncle who live in the countryside, where she meets Marnie. The two become best friends. But Anna gradually discovers that Marnie is not quite who she appears to be.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima
Votes: 47,757 | Gross: $0.77M
19. Only Yesterday (1991)
PG | 119 min | Animation, Drama, Romance
A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.
Director: Isao Takahata | Stars: Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna, Mayumi Izuka
Votes: 37,154 | Gross: $0.45M
20. The Boy and the Beast (2015)
PG-13 | 119 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When a young orphaned boy living on the streets of Shibuya stumbles upon a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by a gruff warrior beast looking for an apprentice.
Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shôta Sometani, Suzu Hirose
Votes: 26,880 | Gross: $0.45M
21. Monmon the Water Spider (2006)
15 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
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.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Star: Akiko Yano
Votes: 429
22. Weathering with You (2019)
PG-13 | 112 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda, Sakura Kiryu
Votes: 55,348 | Gross: $7.80M
23. Chage & Aska: On Your Mark (1995 Music Video)
7 min | Animation, Short, Music
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.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Votes: 4,346
24. Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess (2010)
12 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The witch Baba Yaga keeps her servant the Egg Princess confined and forces her to do hard daily chores around the mill. One night, a batch of kneaded dough comes to life and befriends the Egg Princess.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Votes: 889
25. From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
PG | 91 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Director: Gorô Miyazaki | Stars: Sarah Bolger, Chris Noth, Anton Yelchin, Christina Hendricks
Votes: 51,877 | Gross: $1.00M
26. Koro's Big Day Out (2002)
14 min | Animation, Short
Koro is a puppy owned by a little girl in a small town. One day the puppy gets free and becomes lost.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Itsuki Komazawa, Kenji Imura, Haruyo Moriyoshi, Yumiko Kitajima
Votes: 189
27. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
R | 102 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A traumatized member of an elite para-military police force falls for the sister of a female terrorist courier who died in front of him on duty.
Directors: Kenji Kamiyama, Hiroyuki Okiura | Stars: Michael Dobson, Yoshikazu Fujiki, Sumi Mutoh, Moneca Stori
Votes: 18,718 | Gross: $0.09M
28. Pom Poko (1994)
PG | 119 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.
Director: Isao Takahata | Stars: Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida, Norihei Miki
Votes: 34,496
29. Wings of Honneamise (1987)
Unrated | 121 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
In an alternative Earth, a young astronaut participates in a controversial fledgling space program.
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga | Stars: Leo Morimoto, David Thomas, Mitsuki Yayoi, Heidi Lenhart
Votes: 5,751 | Gross: $0.06M
30. Yukikaze (2002– )
47 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Thirty-three years ago, an alien force known as the "JAM" invaded Earth through a dimensional portal over Antarctica. Earth's forces managed to drive the JAM away to a distant planet ... See full summary »
Stars: Yôko Asagami, Takaya Hashi, Noriaki Sugiyama, Takuya Kirimoto
Votes: 357
31. The Cat Returns (2002)
G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life.
Director: Hiroyuki Morita | Stars: Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda, Takayuki Yamada
Votes: 64,362
32. Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
TV-14 | 116 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A coming of age story involving young love and a mysterious music, coming from a crystal radio left as a memento by an absent father, that leads a young heroine deep into a hidden world.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Hisako Kanemoto, Miyu Irino, Kazuhiko Inoue, Junko Takeuchi
Votes: 16,978
33. Devilman (1987–1990)
TV-MA | 57 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
Devilman faces the tortoise demon Jinmen and birdwoman Shiranu.
Stars: Show Hayami, Alan Marriott, Yû Mizushima, Adam Matalon
Votes: 1,857
34. My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
PG | 104 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan.
Director: Isao Takahata | Stars: Yukiji Asaoka, Tôru Masuoka, Masako Araki, Hayato Isohata
Votes: 15,928
35. Otaku no video (1991)
50 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A half animated/half live-action mockumentary about the world of Japanese geekdom.
Stars: Yuri Amano, Toshiharu Sakurai, Kôji Tsujitani, Shôji Murahama
Votes: 649
36. The Princess and the Pilot (2011)
Not Rated | 99 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A pilot, despite being advised not to, bonds with a princess when he is tasked with escorting the royal subject overseas and across enemy territory to reunite her with her future husband.
Director: Jun Shishido | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Seika Taketomi, Katsumi Chô, Mitsuaki Hoshino
Votes: 1,255
37. Uchû senkan Yamato: Kanketsuhen (1983)
152 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A watery world called Aquarius that is destined to destroy all of the planet Earth. Can the great Yamato stop this devastation?
Directors: Tomoharu Katsumata, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Takeshi Shirato, Toshio Masuda, Leiji Matsumoto | Stars: Kei Tomiyama, Yôko Asagami, Gorô Naya, Isao Sasaki
Votes: 235
38. Ghiblies: Episode 2 (2002 Video)
G | 24 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Ghiblies are back!, and we get to see the Ghibli staff eating extra hot curry for lunch and more of Nonaka's first love all in a sequel of one of Studio Ghibli's most unique set of shorts.
Director: Yoshiyuki Momose | Stars: Masahiko Nishimura, Kyôka Suzuki, Arata Furuta, Satoru Saitô
Votes: 291
39.
Devilman (1987–1990)
Episode:
Tanjo Hen (The Birth)
(1987)
TV-MA | Animation, Action, Fantasy
Devilman faces the tortoise demon Jinmen.
Director: Umanosuke Iida | Stars: Show Hayami, Alan Marriott, Yû Mizushima, Adam Matalon
Votes: 154
40.
Devilman (1987–1990)
Episode:
Yocho Sirène Hen (Evil Bird Siren Volume)
(1990)
TV-MA | Animation, Action, Fantasy
Devilman faces the birdwoman Shiranu.
Director: Umanosuke Iida | Stars: Show Hayami, Alan Marriott, Yû Mizushima, Adam Matalon
Votes: 139
41. Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase (2007)
54 min | Animation, Drama, Sport
Pepe Benengeli and his team participate in the Japanese Cup.
Director: Kitarô Kôsaka | Stars: Yô Ôizumi, Kôichi Yamadera, Akio Ôtsuka, Maaya Sakamoto
Votes: 87
42. Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)
PG | 103 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Based on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 16,125 | Gross: $2.42M
43. Miss Hokusai (2015)
PG-13 | 93 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
The life and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the eyes of his daughter, Katsushika O-Ei.
Directors: Keiichi Hara, Stephanie Sheh, Michael Sinterniklaas | Stars: Yutaka Matsushige, Anne Watanabe, Erica Lindbeck, Richard Epcar
Votes: 3,499 | Gross: $0.22M
44. Êsu wo nerae! 2 (1988)
25 min | Animation, Drama, Sport
Stars: Yûko Mizutani, Kazuhiko Inoue, Tesshô Genda, Ken'yû Horiuchi
Votes: 10
45. Spriggan (1998)
R | 90 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power.
Directors: Hirotsugu Kawasaki, Norihiko Sutô, Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Shôtarô Morikubo, Ryuji Aigase, Takehito Koyasu, Katsumi Suzuki
Votes: 4,210 | Gross: $0.01M
46. Children of the Sea (2019)
Not Rated | 111 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.
Director: Ayumu Watanabe | Stars: Mana Ashida, Hiiro Ishibashi, Seishû Uragami, Win Morisaki
Votes: 3,678
47. Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (1990)
79 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country girl Ginga leaves her home in hope of becoming one of the Emperor's Wives.
Director: Hisayuki Toriumi | Stars: Ryoko Sano, Atsuko Takahata, Ikuko Tani, Yôsuke Akimoto
Votes: 427
48. Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
R | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime
As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong, Ray Wise
Votes: 61,480 | Gross: $3.78M
49. Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
105 min | Animation, Drama, Horror
A colony of cockroaches lives peacefully in a messy bachelor's apartment until his new girlfriend moves in.
Director: Hiroaki Yoshida | Stars: Kaoru Kobayashi, Setsuko Karasuma, Kanako Fujiwara, Eri Watanabe
Votes: 298
50. Project A-Ko 4: Final (1989 Video)
54 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
A-ko and B-ko are fighting as usual, as C-ko watches from the sidelines feeling neglected by both. Ayumi-sensei has been behaving strangely lately. She's wearing a heart-shaped crystal with... See full summary »
Directors: Shigeru Morikawa, Yûji Moriyama | Stars: Miki Itô, Emi Shinohara, Michie Tomizawa, Asami Mukaidono
Votes: 198