Hayao Miyazaki — Playwright (23)
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Boro the Caterpillar (2018)
毛虫のボロ WikiData IMDb
Hayao Miyazaki actor: Tamori
other title: Kemushi no Boro / Boro la chenille …
Just before dawn, Boro the Caterpillar hatched from an egg among patches of scrub grass. Looking around for the first time, he noticed the brilliance of the morning sun and a deliciousness in the air. Boro lowered himself down to the ground from the groundsel, and stepped out into the world of caterpillars and caterpillars' enemies.
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Panda! Go Panda! (1972)
パンダコパンダ TMDB
Isao Takahata actor: Kazuko Sugiyama / Kazuo Kumakura …
other title: Panda petit panda / パンダコパンダ
Cheerful Mimiko has a wonderfully strange family—a Panda for her Papa; and his son Panny, calls her Mom! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so Mimiko won't get into trouble. Despite his efforts to behave, Panny causes trouble in school and now the school is after Panny! Then, Panny makes a new friend, Tiny, a baby tiger who's wandered off from the circus.
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Panda! Go Panda! (1972)
パンダコパンダ
Isao Takahata actor: Kazuko Sugiyama / Kazuo Kumakura …
other title: Panda! Go, panda! / Die Abenteuer des kleinen Panda Teil 1 …
Cheerful Mimiko’s small family grows when she adopts a talking baby panda and his full-grown papa. Despite Mimiko's best efforts, the appearance of Panny and Papa Bear disrupts the quiet pace of life in town, prompting zookeepers to reclaim the escaped bear pair.
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A Sumo Wrestler's Tail (2010)
ちゅうずもう WikiData IMDb TMDB
Akihiko Yamashita actor: Sawako Agawa
other title: Le sumo coui-coui / ちゅうずもう …
Chu Zumo is the story of an old farmer who discovers a group of rats heading to a sumo wrestling bout. After they lose miserably he decides to feed the rats to boost their chances of winning.
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Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus (1973)
パンダコパンダ 雨ふりサーカスの巻 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Isao Takahata actor: Kazuko Sugiyama / Kazuo Kumakura …
other title: Il circo sotto la pioggia / As Aventuras de Panda e Seus Amigos …
Mimiko, Papa Panda, and Panny make friends with a baby tiger from the circus — just in time for a flash flood to throw the whole town into chaos.
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On Your Mark (1995)
ジブリ実験劇場 On Your Mark
Hayao Miyazaki actor: CHAGE & ASKA
other title: Aos Vossos Lugares / ジブリ実験劇場 On Your Mark …
Set in the future: Two men learn that a mysterious winged girl has been taken prisoner, and then decide that they must free her at any cost.
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990)
ふしぎの海のナディア IMDb TMDB
actor: Noriko Hidaka / Yoshino Takamori …
other title: Nadia und die Macht des Zaubersteins / Nadia, le secret de l'eau bleue …
In mankind's grasp for the future, a sinister foe known only as Gargoyle begins his plans to take over the world. Nadia, with the help of a young inventor, Jean Ratlique, and Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus, must fight to save the world from Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis.
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Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
ルパン三世 カリオストロの城
★ 7.7 11 ratings
Hayao Miyazaki actor: Yasuo Yamada / Kiyoshi Kobayashi …
other title: Lupin III - Il castello di Cagliostro / Lupin III: Cagliostros Borg …
After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.
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From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
コクリコ坂から
★ 7.5 13 ratings
Goro Miyazaki actor: Masami Nagasawa / Junichi Okada …
other title: From Kokuriko Hill / La Colline aux coquelicots …
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.
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Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008)
崖の上のポニョ
★ 8.1 34 ratings
Hayao Miyazaki actor: Yuria Kozuki / Hiroki Doi …
other title: Gake no ue no Ponyo / Ponyo sulla scogliera …
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.
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The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
借りぐらしのアリエッティ
★ 7.7 34 ratings
Hiromasa Yonebayashi actor: Mirai Shida / Ryunosuke Kamiki …
other title: Arrietty - Il mondo segreto sotto il pavimento / Arriettys hemmelige verden …
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
風の谷のナウシカ
★ 8.5 33 ratings
Hayao Miyazaki actor: Sumi Shimamoto / Chika Sakamoto …
other title: Nausicaä della Valle del vento / Nausicaä - fra vindenes dal …
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
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My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
となりのトトロ
★ 8.6 60 ratings
Hayao Miyazaki actor: Chika Sakamoto / Noriko Hidaka …
other title: Il mio vicino Totoro / Min nabo Totoro …
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
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Whisper of the Heart (1995)
耳をすませば
★ 8.6 31 ratings
Yoshifumi Kondo actor: Yoko Honna / Issey Takahashi …
other title: I sospiri del mio cuore / Hjertets Hvisken …
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.
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The Boy and the Heron (2023)
君たちはどう生きるか
★ 7.4 99 ratings
Hayao Miyazaki actor: Soma Santoki / Masaki Suda …
other title: How Do You Live? / O Menino e a Garça …
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 woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
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Spirited Away (2001)
千と千尋の神隠し
★ 8.9 101 ratings
Hayao Miyazaki actor: Rumi Hiiragi / Miyu Irino …
other title: La città incantata / Chihiro og heksene …
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.