Soundtrack: Michio Mamiya

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 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 Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kyôsuke Machida · Frank Nagai · Keisuke Yukioka · Hisako Tsukuba

Plot A nightclub manager is in love with his pianist. However, she has a ranger boyfriend who's been permanently stationed in the mountain wilderness. Their only communication is by letter. As...

Direction Yasuo Otsuka

Plot A boy and a cow have always lived their lives together. One winter, a famine strikes their village. The villagers resolve to the cow, but the boy secretly helped the...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shima Iwashita · Kyôko Kishida · Katsuo Nakamura · Shinjiro Ebara

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 Tadashi Imai

Cast Tanie Kitabayashi · Aiko Nagayama · Sakae Umezu · Yûnosuke Itô