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Description |
| 1 |
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
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Laputa: Castle in the Sky is about a boy, who befriends a girl who floats down from the sky. The two go on an adventure, where they must evade the military, government agents and pirates, while trying to find a floating castle of a lost civilisation.
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| 2 |
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
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Grave of the Fireflies is set mostly in Japan during the final months of World War 2, and is about a boy who has to look after his younger sister after their mother dies.
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| 3 |
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) |
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In 1958 Japan, two girls move to the countryside with their father, to be near their hospitalised mother. They soon discover and befriend some magical creatures called totoros, that live in the nearby forest. |
| 4 |
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
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Kiki's Delivery Service is based on the 1985 novel of the same name. It is about Kiki, a 13 year old witch who starts a delivery service for a bakery after moving from her home village to a city.
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| 5 |
Only Yesterday (1991)
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A 27 year old office worker, who has spent her entire life in Tokyo, travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood.
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| 6 |
Porco Rosso (1992)
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Porco Rosso is set in Italy during the 1920s. It is about a former WWI fighter pilot turned bounty hunter, who looks like a pig (due to a curse put on him) and is wanted by the Italian authorities for deserting the air force.
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| 7 |
Ocean Waves (1993)
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Ocean Waves is an animated made-for-TV film, based on the novel of the same name. It is set in the city of Kochi, on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and is about two good friends whose friendship is affected by a new girl from Tokyo, who is transferred to their school. |
| 8 |
Pom Poko (1994)
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Pom Poko is a story about a community of magical shape-shifting raccoon creatures, trying to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.
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| 9 |
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
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Whisper of the Heart is based on a manga (Japanese comic book) from 1989, with a story which revolves around a teenage girl from Tokyo.
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| 10 |
Princess Mononoke (1997)
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Princess Mononoke is a historical-fantasy film set during Japan's Muromachi period (which was approximately from 1337 to 1573). It is about a young man who his cursed by a demon while saving his village from it. He leaves his village to seek a cure, before the curse kills him. He soon encounters a conflict between the supernatural guardians of a forest, and the humans of Iron Town who are plundering its resources.
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| 11 |
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
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My Neighbors the Yamadas is a movie split into a series of vignettes (rather than having one continuous plot), about a family living in urban Tokyo.
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| 12 |
Spirited Away (2001)
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Spirited Away is about a 10 year old girl who, along with her parents, gets transported to the spirit world after arriving at an abandoned amusement park. Her parents are turned into pigs by a witch, so she takes a job at the witch's bathhouse to find a way to cure her parents and escape.
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| 13 |
The Cat Returns (2002)
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The Cat Returns is a spin-off movie from Whisper of the Heart, and is about a girl who discovers a magical world of talking cat people.
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| 14 |
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
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Howl's Moving Castle is about an 18 year old hat maker who is turned into an old woman after being cursed by a witch. While searching for a cure, she encounters a variety of human and nonhuman characters, including the wizard Howl (who lives in a walking castle).
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| 15 |
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
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Tales from Earthsea is an animated fantasy film based on a combination of the plots and characters from the first four Earthsea books.
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| 16 |
Ponyo (2008)
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Ponyo is a movie that has a story with similarities to The Little Mermaid.
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| 17 |
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
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The Secret World of Arrietty is about a family of four-inch tall people, residing in an ordinary sized family's house. It is based on The Borrowers novel.
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| 18 |
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
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From Up on Poppy Hill is set in Yokohama, Japan in 1963, and is about a group of teenagers trying to save their school clubhouse from being demolished.
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| 19 |
The Wind Rises (2013)
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The Wind Rises is a fictionalised biopic (with large deviations away from historical facts) about the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the Mitsubishi A5M and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter planes used by Japan during World War II. |
| 20 |
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013) |
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The Tale of Princess Kaguya is based on the folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. |
| 21 |
When Marnie Was There (2014) |
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When Marnie Was There is based on the Joan G. Robinson novel of the same name. It is about a shy lonely girl who is sent by her parents, for health reasons, to a small coastal village in northern Hokkaido. While there, she befriends a girl called Marnie. |
