Direction: Isao Takahata

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot A Japanese boy of 14 and his 4 year old sister, attempt to seek refuge from the atrocities of World War II in the small city of Kobe. In post-World...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot An old man makes a living by selling bamboo. One day, he finds a princess in a bamboo. The princess is only the size of a finger. Her name is...

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...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Only Yesterday revolves around Taeko, a single woman working a desk job in Tokyo in 1982, taking a vacation in the countryside with the family of her sister in-law. During...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot 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...

Direction Hayao Miyazaki · Isao Takahata · Masaaki Ôsumi · Kyosuke Mikuriya

Plot Lupin the 3rd, The World's Greatest thief, who's proud of being the grandson of the infamous French thief: Arsene Lupin. Accompanied by his comrades who help him pull off the...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she learns that sometimes you have to be a sensible person too; at the same time...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot 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...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Jarinko Chie is a movie directed by Takahata in 1981. Based on the very popular manga by Etsumi HARUKI, it is about ten year old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Gauche is based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa, one of the most-loved poet/storytellers in Japan (Miyazaki and Takahata love his works, and have been influenced by him). The movie...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot A young boy who we first see taking a trusty hatchet to a pack of wolves. Back home, Hols finds his father dying. With his last words, he urges Hols...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot This is the sequel history of "Panda. Go, Panda. (1972)". The trio (the young girl orphan, a panda cub and his father) are joined by a tiger cub who has...

Direction Isao Takahata · Atsuji Hayakawa · Yoshio Kuroda

Plot This animation series follows the childhood "adventures" of a girl named Heidi, who lives with her grandfather somewhere on the Alps.

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto · Mark Baker · Jacques Drouin · Co Hoedeman

Plot Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Panda Kopanda (Panda! Go Panda!) is a 30 minute movie made in 1972. Miyazaki created the original idea, the script, the layouts, and did key animation, and Takahata directed the...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Marco, a young boy who lives with his family in the harbor city of Genoa, Italy during a depression period in 1881. Marco's father, Pietro Rossi, is a manager of...

Direction Isao Takahata · Shigeo Koshi · Kôzô Kusuba · Kazuyoshi Yokota

Plot Based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this 50 episode series tells the story of Anne Shirley, a young orphan living in 19th century Canada.

Direction Nobutaka Nishizawa · Isao Takahata · Yasuo Yamaguchi · Fujio Akatsuka

Plot The plot revolves around a young named Ataro who lives with his father X-Goro (read as Batsu-Goro) in downtown Tokyo running the family store. After his father's sudden death, Ataro...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Miyazaki visited Yanagawa, and was impressed by the beautiful town with its canals, and came up with an idea for a film about high school boys and girls in Yanagawa,...

Direction Shigetsugu Yoshida · Kyosuke Mikuriya · Yoshikata Nitta · Isao Takahata

Plot TV Series (1973 - 1974). 52 Episodes. The adventures of Isamu, a young boy living in the Far West, searching for his real father. (Source: MyAnimeList)