Direction: Hayao Miyazaki
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Spirited Away
2001 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot 10-year old Chihiro becomes trapped in a forbidden world of gods and magic when her parents take her to investigate the other side of the tunnel. In order to survive,...
8.1
109K votes
8.1
109K votes
Princess Mononoke
1997 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot 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...
8.0
67K votes
8.0
67K votes
Howl's Moving Castle
2004 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Young Sophie is eighteen, and works tirelessly every day making hats in her deased father’s hat shop. One day, on a rare outing to town, Sophie accidentally encounters the Wizard...
7.8
57K votes
7.8
57K votes
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot 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...
7.7
46K votes
7.7
46K votes
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
1984 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Centuries after war has devastated the earth, Princess Nausicaa leads the people of the Valley of the Wind. Feuding clans fight with planes and tanks as well as swords in...
7.6
20K votes
7.6
20K votes
Looking for a Home (S)
2006 · Movie · 12 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Yado-Sagashi follows a young girl named Fuki as she embarks on a journey to find a new home.
7.5
30 votes
7.5
30 votes
Castle in the Sky
1986 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Laputa, a floating castle in the sky, was created by a mysterious race of people who long ago disappeared from the planet. A group of ruthless pirates suspect it has...
7.5
15K votes
7.5
15K votes
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
2008 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea tells the story of 5-year-old Sosuke, and Ponyo, a Princess Goldfish who wants only to become human.
7.4
22K votes
7.4
22K votes
Porco Rosso
1992 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot 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...
7.4
25K votes
7.4
25K votes
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess (S)
2010 · Movie · 12 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot In a lonesome water mill deep in a forest of briers and brambles lives a witch named Baba Yaga. There the witch keeps her servant the Egg Princess confined and...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
The Wind Rises
2013 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a...
7.2
14K votes
7.2
14K votes
Future Boy Conan (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki · Keiji Hayakawa · Isao Takahata
Plot The story takes place in the 21st century, 20 years after World War 3. The world as we know it has been destroyed, and 12 year old Conan lives on...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Sherlock Hound: The Kidnapping Case of Mrs. Hudson / The Air Battle Over Dover!
1986 · Movie · 46 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Second recopilatory movie of "Sherlock Hound".
7.2
63 votes
7.2
63 votes
Mon Mon the Water Spider (S)
2006 · Movie · 15 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Animated short film produced by Studio Ghibli, it can be seen at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. It is based in part on "Boro, the Caterpillar", a story idea...
7.1
92 votes
7.1
92 votes
Sherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea
1984 · Movie · 46 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot First recopilatory movie of the anime "Sherlock Hound".
7.1
48 votes
7.1
48 votes
Lupin III's Greatest Capers
1980 · Movie · 65 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Lupin III: Greatest Capers is a compilation of two episodes from the second Lupin III television series that was released on video from Streamline Pictures. The episodes included were: *...
7.1
129 votes
7.1
129 votes
Kiki's Delivery Service
1989 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot 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...
7.1
11K votes
7.1
11K votes
The Boy and the Heron
2023 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a...
7.1
6K votes
7.1
6K votes
Mei and the Kittenbus (S)
2002 · Movie · 13 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot It tells the story of Mei and her friend the kittenbus (the child of the original catbus from My Neighbor Totoro). Mei is just small enough to ride in the...
7.0
627 votes
7.0
627 votes
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
1979 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Reknowned international thief Lupin III comes to the small European duchy of Cagliostro to investigate some excellently-forged money and stumbles across a national conspiracy going back some hundreds of years....
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K votes