Studio Ghibli's Films

1984 - Nausica of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no tani no Naushika)
1986 - Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta)
1988 - My Neighbour Totoro (Tonari no Totoro)
1989 - Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no takkyûbin)
1991 - Only Yesterday (Omohide poro poro)
1992 - Pozco Rosso (Kurenai no buta)
1994 - Pom Poko (Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko)
1997 - Whisper of the Heart (Mimi wo sumaseba)
1997 - Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime)
1999 - My Neighbours 'The Yamadas' (Hôhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun)
2001 - Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)
2002 - The Cat Returns (Neko no ongaeshi)
2004 - Howls Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)


Nausica of the Valley of the Wind. (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky. (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. This girl, Sheeta, and her magical levitation-stone pendant hold the key to a mysterious, mythical sky-castle known as Laputa. Sheeta and Pazu must flee from both air-pirates, who seek the sky kingdom for its legendary treasure, and the army, led by a government agent with his own mysterious agenda for Laputa.

My Neighbour Totoro. (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.

Kiki's Delivery Service. (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
Kiki, a young witch-in-training, has reached the age of 13. According to tradition, all witches of that age must leave home for one year, so that they can learn how to live on their own. Kiki, along with her talking cat Gigi, fly away to live in the seaside town of Korico. After starting her own delivery service (using her broom as the delivery vehicle), Kiki must learn how to deal with her new life, especially after she starts to lose her power.

Only Yesterday. (Directed by Isao Takahata)
A 27-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.

Pozco Rosso. (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
In Early 1930's era Italy, air pirates, bounty hunters and high flyers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso, a man cursed with the head of a pig after watching the spirits of the pilots killed in the last air battle he fought in rise to the heavens. He now makes a living taking jobs, such as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival in the air and in catching the affections of women, provides a constant challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious, action packed finale.

Pom Poko. (Directed by Isao Takahata)
As the human city development encroaches on the raccoon population's forest and meadow habitat, the raccoons find themselves faced with the very real possibility of extinction. In response, the raccoons engage in a desperate struggle to stop the construction and preserve their home.

Whisper of the Heart. (Directed by Yoshifumi Kondo)
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'. Curious as to who he is, Shizuku meets a boy her age whom she finds infuriating, but discovers to her shock that he is her 'Prince of Books'. As she grows closer to him, she realises that he merely read all those books to bring himself closer to her. The boy Seiji aspires to be a violin maker in Italy, and it is his dreams that make Shizuku realise that she has no clear path for her life. Knowing that her strength lies in writing, she tests her talents by writing a story about Baron, a cat statuette belonging to Seiji's grandfather.

Princess Mononoke. (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
A prince is infected with an incurable disease by a possessed boar/god. He is to die unless he can find a cure to rid the curse from his body. It seems that his only hope is to travel to the far east. When he arrives to get help from the deer god, he finds himself in the middle of a battle between the animal inhabitants of the forest and an iron mining town that is exploiting and killing the forest. Leading the forest animals in the battle is a human raised by wolves, Princess Mononoko.

My Neighbours 'The Yamadas'. (Directed by Isao Takahata)
The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humourous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems and joys in their own way.

Spirited Away. (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
While moving to a new home in Japan, Chihiro and her parents take a wrong turn down a mysterious wooded path. They come across an ominous-looking tunnel of which only Chihiro is scared. Going through the tunnel, they are lead them to a mysterious town filled with restaurants that have all kinds of delicious food on display. Mom and Dad don't hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. However, as the sun sets, the town begins to fill up with the gods of Japan's mythology, and Chihiro returns to find her parents mysteriously turned into pigs. A young boy, Haku, works in the building, which is a bathhouse for 8 Million gods. Though the work is hard and the people strange, she does as well as she can. Her parents, however, are still waiting in the hotel's stockyard, and Chihiro must find a way to break the spell on them before they end up as the main course of some guest's dinner.

The Cat Returns. (Directed by Hiroyuki Morita)
A young girl rescues a mysterious cat from traffic and soon finds herself the unwelcome recipient of gifts and favors from the King of the Cats, who also wants her to marry his son, Prince Lune. With the assistance of a fat, grouchy real cat and a an elegant cat statuette-come-to-life, the girl visits the Cat Kingdom and narrowly escapes again.

Howls Moving Castle. (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, turns into an old woman, and is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a contract, the terms of which Calcifer cannot reveal. They promise to help each other with their problems.Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman.

Yes...I have a lot of time to post at the moment and I'm bored as I'm thinking the details of the DCUniversity story. But onto the subject.

I totally want to get those movies, the only one I've seen so far was Princess Mononoke, which I thought was pretty cool, even bought it.