So i want to start watching Miyazaki's films but really don't know where to start. Can anyone recommend me the viewing "order" of his films?
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So i want to start watching Miyazaki's films but really don't know where to start. Can anyone recommend me the viewing "order" of his films?
Umm…I'm not sure. I don't think there really is any "viewing order" for his films. All of them are good, just some are better than others. I guess you could chronologically and work your way up.
Also, the general consensus is that his absolute "must-see" films are My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away.
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So i want to start watching Miyazaki's films but really don't know where to start. Can anyone recommend me the viewing "order" of his films?
They're all good. Chronological is a decent bet, so start with Cagliostro, then Nausicaa, then Laputa then Totoro etc..
Otherwise start with Totoro and Mononoke, that way you get the two opposite ends of the spectrum. His super cutesy slice of life, and his super serious drama. If you like one but not the other, he's got several other films similar to both, and a couple in between. (And most of the other Ghibli films are pretty good too, give them a shot while you're at it.)
A couple here he didn't actually direct, but he wrote an boarded and it was the same studio so they feel pretty close to his stuff
Cutesy magical slice of life
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Ponyo
The Secret World of Arrietty (didn't direct)Action Adventure
Castle of Cagliostro
Nausicaa Valley of the Wind
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Princess MononokeSomewhere in between
Porco Rosso
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving CastleOrdinary world slice of life
Whisper of the Heart (didn't direct )
From Up on Poppy Hill (didn't direct)
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They're all good. Chronological is a decent bet, so start with Cagliostro, then Nausicaa, then Laputa then Totoro etc..
Otherwise start with Totoro and Mononoke, that way you get the two opposite ends of the spectrum. His super cutesy slice of life, and his super serious drama. If you like one but not the other, he's got several other films similar to both, and a couple in between. (And most of the other Ghibli films are pretty good too, give them a shot while you're at it.)
A couple here he didn't actually direct, but he wrote an boarded and it was the same studio so they feel pretty close to his stuff
Cutesy magical slice of life
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Ponyo
The Secret World of Arrietty (didn't direct)Action Adventure
Castle of Cagliostro
Nausicaa Valley of the Wind
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Princess MononokeSomewhere in between
Porco Rosso
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving CastleOrdinary world slice of life
Whisper of the Heart (didn't direct )
From Up on Poppy Hill (didn't direct)
The Wind RisesThanks alot!! I'll start with those two movies and work my way down the list. And yea i'll be watching the rest of Studio Ghibli movies after i am done with Miyazaki's stuff.
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Umm…I'm not sure. I don't think there really is any "viewing order" for his films. All of them are good, just some are better than others. I guess you could chronologically and work your way up.
Also, the general consensus is that his absolute "must-see" films are My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away.
Thanks! I'll be sure to check them out.
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My viewing order was
Most Popular -> Underrated -> Least Known
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How can you know if something is underrated until you watch it? XD
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So I just discovered that Only Yesterday, the only theatrical Ghibli film yet to have been localized, has not only been dubbed, but will be showing in theaters this Friday.
Honestly, I think this is great. I remember catching the subbed version when it aired on TCM back in 2006 and I thought it was a really sweet movie. Here's hoping a home video release will soon follow.
Oh, and the English dub has Daisy Ridley (Star Wars)
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Just come to watch the first non japanese movie produced by Ghibli studio : The Red Turtle by Michael Dudok de Wit.
It was really beautiful, lots of poetry and a superb animation. Probably not to the taste of everyone as it is very contemplative but a great first long animation movie by a director I will follow.
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According to Japanese TV show called "NHK special" broadcasted 30 minutes ago, Hayao Miyazaki is now wondering if he can release another long story film in 2019.
He also says that he will make a determination about it after drawing 100 cutscenes of the film.I took some pics.
Here is a cover page of memos about the new film.[hide]
[/hide]Miyazaki says in this paper, "I will be 78 years old when the film gets released. I wonder if I can live until then".[hide]
[/hide]Impressive Miyazaki's quote from the TV show:This world is beautiful. We just don't notice it.
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So does that mean the king of japanese animation is coming back?
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Princess Mononoke will be in theatres in the US for two days in January.
http://nerdapproved.com/movies/princess-mononoke-returns/
And, if you're in Canada around the Toronto area, the TiFF theatre will be marathoning basically all the ghibli films at the end of December.
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Miyazaki is out of retirement? Who ever could have guessed that would happen for a fifth time?
@me:
I imagine Hayao has another film or two in him yet though and won't stop until he die
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Miyazaki will literally claw himself out of the grave/manifest out of ash in order to make one more film
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Not that it's surprising that Miyazaki game out of retirement, but I wonder if this time it's because Studio Ghibli begged him to.
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Considering the company was content to just shut down and lets its legacy be it's legacy, I have to assume its because he's an artist and after having a chance to recouperate, he just has to keep telling stories.
Super draining process to work on a film for 3 years straight and oversee it all, but… its what the man does. It's in his blood. If he wasn't making a movie in his retirement, he'd probably end up storyboarding/making a new manga in his free time anyway.
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Finally. Was waiting for him to come out and show mediocre anime creators how its really done.
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"Retirement" to Miyazaki is really just taking a break.
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YES.
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/studio-ghibli-fest-tickets-screening-schedule-miyazaki-1201797450/Yayyyyy! This. Is. Awesome…
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This is NOT a commercial for Kiki's Delivery Service 2.
I repeat. This is NOT that. So don't get your hopes up.
But still neat.
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Having watched it for the first time earlier this year: Kiki is EXTREMELY underrated, and easily in my top 3 Miyaziki films; as Chihiro and Laputa had done before, it connected to me on an profoundly emotional level. Its just so damn likeable! Sure it doesn't have much story or even explicitly drawn character arcs, but the atmosphere, the city, the characters, THE MUSIC was just sooooooooo engrossing. When a movie can transfix me with extended panning shots of a painting, and I can get teary eyed at a GODDAMN CAKE it does something amazingly right.
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@Daz:
Having watched it for the first time earlier this year: Kiki is EXTREMELY underrated, and easily in my top 3 Miyaziki films; as Chihiro and Laputa had done before, it connected to me on an profoundly emotional level. Its just so damn likeable! Sure it doesn't have much story or even explicitly drawn character arcs, but the atmosphere, the city, the characters, THE MUSIC was just sooooooooo engrossing. When a movie can transfix me with extended panning shots of a painting, and I can get teary eyed at a GODDAMN CAKE it does something amazingly right.
I've been wanting to watch the movie for the longest time, but the Hungry Days Cup Noodle commercial and your comment convinced me to finally stop being lazy and watch it. I just finished and I agree. I like the slice of life concept of following a delivery person, and some of the ordinary citizens and landscape shots were quite endearing. I didn't know that I could get so into talking with grannies and helping them bake a pie lol. I think my only gripe is Kiki being such a jerk towards Tombo for half the movie and never feels sorry about it (not that I find Tombo's constant attempts to get her attention when she clearly doesn't like him to be charming after a while either). I know she's a kid, but seeing how she instantly gets along with everybody else without a fuss except him is jarring.
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Lacking something to watch, finally went with Pom Poko.
I'm surprised it gets so little attention, it was really good and entertaining. Not enough to become one of my favorites, sure, but still oozing everything that makes Ghibli so endearing. You just need to develop a certain level of tolerance to animal scrotum.
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@.access:
Lacking something to watch, finally went with Pom Poko.
I'm surprised it gets so little attention, it was really good and entertaining. Not enough to become one of my favorites, sure, but still oozing everything that makes Ghibli so endearing. You just need to develop a certain level of tolerance to animal scrotum.
Oh I didn't watched it fully but it was that movie the made me discover tanukis and their big balls.
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I wish I had watched this before Shaman King made me see tanuki balls and instantly think of "hot and sweaty". It also doesn't help SK's tanuki had pubes instead of fur there…
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Noooo, Ghibli! Don't do it!
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Hayao is still doing a hand drawn project thats apparently going to take a ridiculous amount of time, let his son do a CG thing in the meantime that might make money globaly. .
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It just feel so wrong . . .
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I've started reading the English edition of the Kiki's Delivery Service novel. It's always been perhaps my favorite Ghibli film, and the book version is really well written so far.
Like the Avatar? / Like the Miis?Dragalia Lost ID: 97617932505
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I've finished Princess Mononoke because for some reason I kept forgetting to.
Princess Mononoke is so ahead of its time that it is even ahead of its time 20 years later especially when we look at the situation the world is taking towards global warming and environmentalism policies.
If everyone on both sides actually sit down and watch the film, maybe the quarreling will actually pause for a while. -
You would hope, wouldn't you? But too many people wouldn't want to admit to climate change in the first place.
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We've speculated on global warming a hundred years ago.
We knew it was happening in the 80's but didn't quite have the science in, hence "global cooling" was a thing for a bit. But we got Captain Planet to warn us! And was roundly mocked for it.
We really knew what was happening by 2000. We got Al Gore to warn us! And was roundly mocked for it.
And we absolutely know now. We got Greta Thunberg to warn us! And was roundly mocked for it. By the president.
We're finally starting to take it seriously but a ton of damage has already been done. We're now at "don't let it reach apocalypses stage" rather than "don't let it happen." The steps taken today should have been taken 30 years ago.
I concede a little that wind and solar tech weren't as good or as cheap as they are now…. but what if we'd been actually developing them the whole time? We couldhave had electric cars set up decades ago at the very least.
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My dad said he once saw a speech by a wonderful economist (who's name I can remember) back in the 70s, and he said something very spot-on: "They'll move to full solar energy as soon as they can put a meter between us and the sun."
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Decided to watch every Ghibli movie this year, starting with the ones i have not seen yet and then eventually rewatching those that i have seen already.
Started with Only Yesterday on Netflix, pretty straightforward yet beautiful movie, to be fair did not expect that such a realistic approach in a Ghibli movie.
While watching i pondered about the usage of Eastern European music though and whether there is a deeper meaning and layer in context of the movie, or whether Takahata simply found it fitting for some reason.
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@.access:
Lacking something to watch, finally went with Pom Poko.
I'm surprised it gets so little attention, it was really good and entertaining. Not enough to become one of my favorites, sure, but still oozing everything that makes Ghibli so endearing. You just need to develop a certain level of tolerance to animal scrotum.
I just watched it not so long ago, really liked it.
I had a similar story in mind when I was younger but instead of tanukis, it was little children who did the sabotaging.
Haha so it was great to see my ideas already been done by Ghibli
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Live action sequel to Whisper of the Heart announced.
Whisper of the Heart is one of my favorite movies, (not just Ghibli, but favorites period) not sure how to feel about a live action sequel. They changed Seiji from a violin maker to a cello player? And the Baron figurine is really a central figure 10 years later?
I know its based on a book originally but given the outfits they're super duper clearly going off the animated film so… I dunno? I expect to be very dissapointed.
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Miyazaki will never retire!!!! ALL HAIL!!!!
https://screencrush.com/new-hayao-miyazaki-movie/?fbclid=IwAR3Asjs292bTSPAcNGjmEWl75ptwlIMagfyAYFYIB62HqwD432GeMBF5QNo -
A small gang I had been recently watching anime with were looking for the next thing to watch after we finished Spy x Family, and Ghibli came up. I've only actually seen a small handful of movies, so we're probably going to fix that. Before this I had been meaning to watch Whisper of the Heart after reading how it inspired Kenta Shinohara to start writing manga.
So I grabbed a list marked what I've seen and could suggest. Kiki was probably my first one, and I don't remember a whole lot of Totoro. Gintama made so many Ghibli references I gotta see the actual stuff soon, lol.
- "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" (1984)
- "Castle in the Sky" (1986)
- "Grave of the Fireflies" (1988)
- "My Neighbor Totoro" (1988)
- "Kiki's Delivery Service" (1989)
- "Only Yesterday" (1991)
- "Porco Rosso" (1992)
- "Ocean Waves" (1993)
- "Pom Poko" (1994)
- "Whisper of the Heart" (1995)
- "Princess Mononoke" (1997)
- "My Neighbors the Yamadas" (1999)
- "Spirited Away" (2001)
- "The Cat Returns" (2002)
- "Howl's Moving Castle" (2004)
- "Tales from Earthsea" (2006)
- "Ponyo" (2008)
- "The Secret World of Arrietty" (2010)
- "From Up on Poppy Hill" (2011)
- "The Wind Rises" (2013)
- "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya" (2013)
- "When Marnie Was There" (2014)
- "Earwig and the Witch" (2020)
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That you haven't seen Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke yet is insane. Those two and Porco Rosso are the absolute must-sees.
Note that if you do watch Howl's Moving Castle it is very different from the book. Something I had to shake my head off frequently.
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Of that list, Ocean Waves is the only one I haven't seen even once while Porco Rosso, Earthsea, and My Neighbors The Yamadas are the only ones I haven't seen in an actual movie theater. I'm pretty sure GhibliFest has never even shown the last two and they've only done Porco Rosso once. The rest I've seen in theaters. Yes, even Earwig and the Witch.
Also, if you're going to count Nausicaa, you might as well put Castle of Cagliostro on there as well and watch it along with Albatross of Death. Then maybe watch Farewell, My Beloved Lupin right before Castle in the Sky. Toss in the Fleischer Superman short The Mechanical Monsters for good measure since that ties into both.
Complicating things since 2009.
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@Cinder said in Studio Ghibli thread:
A small gang I had been recently watching anime with were looking for the next thing to watch after we finished Spy x Family, and Ghibli came up.
Add Castle of Cagliostro to that list. it's not technically a Ghibli film, but it's absolutely 100% a Myazaki film. It's a work-for-hire Lupin III movie, but he put in work on the tv series and changed the character enough and added so many directorial flourishes to it that the franchise is still borrowing from it 45 years later and its for all intents and purposes just a Miyazki film.
(His earlier tv work like Sherlock Hound or Futureboy Conan s harder to recommend because its still good but it IS 40-50 year old tv animation and so can be rough)
Whisper of the Heart and Princess Mononoke and Cagliostro are all among my favorite movies. Not Ghibli movies, or animated movies, just... movies. Period.
And I know your list is chronological, but put Earthsea and and Earwig at the very bottom of your agenda, those were from Miyazaki's son Goro. They were entirely a nepotism thing, not a talent thing. The worst part is it wasn't even father/son nepotism, it was the studio wanting a Miyazaki in the credits, and they famously had a falling out after Earthsea. From Up on Poppy Hill was also his son, but Hayao did the screenplay so it came out ok.
If you make it through those, or just want a change of pace, add the works of Mamoru Hosoda and Makoto Shinkai to your list. They're not quite Ghibli, but they're about the closest we've got in the modern era and SHinkai's most recent films are consistently among the highest grossing films in Japan.
Mamoru Hosoda
One Piece movie 6 - Baron Omatsu
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Summer Wars
Wolf Children
The Boy and the Beast
Mirai
BelleMakoto Shinkai
Voices of a Distant Star (short)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
5 Centieters Per Second
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Garden of Words (short)
Your Name (the big hit)
Weathering with You
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I didn't touch Earthsea because I knew just from the trailer it was going to be a major fuck-up of a fabulous novel(s). I mean, Miyazaki himself almost completely changed Howl and co., I couldn't imagine what his son would do. From Up on Poppy Hill was a decent movie, though.
Dear Isao Takahata's movies are just as gorgeous just . . . . sadder. I haven't watched Grave of the Fireflies because you KNOW how depressing it is. I did watch Princess Kaguya, though, and while also drop-dead gorgeous it sticks pretty close to the original fairy tale so you know the ending is rather . . . solemn.
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@Ubiq said in Studio Ghibli thread:
Of that list, Ocean Waves is the only one I haven't seen even once
Don't worry, you're not missing a whole lot.
The only Ghibli movies I haven't seen are Earthsea and Earwig and the Witch. Earthsea I may eventually see, but Earwig and Witch......nah, that just looks like a total embarrassment.
Oh yeah, and I guess I'll throw in a mention of Red Turtle since Studio Ghibli technically worked on it, but...yeah, while it is good, it really doesn't look or play at all like a conventional Ghibli film.
@Satsuki If you, or anyone else, wants something a little more upbeat from Takahata, I cannot recommend Only Yesterday enough. Really underrated and overlooked entry in the Ghibli library.
My Neighbors is also a cute little movie, if not a bit dull.
Pom Poko was lighthearted, but very stupid.
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Don't go anywhere near Earwig and The Witch, it's just awful on all fronts.
