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,...

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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...

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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...

Max

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...

Max

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...

Max

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...

Max

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.

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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...

Max

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...

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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

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

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...

Max

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