The Boy and the Heron

The Boy and the Heron

October 31, 2024
🇯🇵, 🎙️, 🔟, 2023, adult animation/anime, christian bale, dave bautista, florence pugh, gemma chan, hayao miyazaki🎬, karen fukuhara, luca padovan, mark hamill, robert pattinson, willem dafoe

MOVIE #2,108 • SCORE 10/10 • 11.01.24 SERIES: HAYAO MIYAZAKI DIRECTOR FOCUS CHRONOLOGICALLY ⫷ MOVIE #2,107 - (YOU ARE HERE) ...

The Wind Rises

The Wind Rises

September 12, 2024
🇯🇵, 2013, 6️⃣, adult animation/anime, hayao miyazaki🎬, hideaki anno, hidetoshi nishijima, masahiko nishimura, miori yakimoto, morio kazama, nomura mansai

MOVIE #1,963 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.13.24 SERIES: HAYAO MIYAZAKI DIRECTOR FOCUS The penultimate Miyazaki is maybe the least excited I've ...

Ponyo

Ponyo

July 18, 2008
🇯🇵, 2008, 9️⃣, betty white, cate blanchett, cloris leachman, hayao miyazaki🎬, kids, liam neeson, lily tomlin, matt damon, noah cyrus, tina fey

MOVIE #1,872 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.02.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス This is some of the simplest animation ever in a Miyazaki, though it’s just as...

Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle

September 04, 2004
🇯🇵, 2004, 9️⃣, akihiro miwa, chieko baisho, haruko kato, hayao miyazaki🎬, kids, ryūnosuke kamiki, takuya kimura, tatsuya gashūin

MOVIE #1,827 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.19.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス How do you follow-up what is widely considered a masterpiece and your most famo...

Spirited Away

Spirited Away

July 21, 2001
🇯🇵, 2001, 9️⃣, bob bergen, daveigh chase, david ogden stiers, hayao miyazaki🎬, jason marsden, john ratzenberger, kids, paul eding, susan egan, suzanne pleshette

MOVIE #1,786 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.05.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス Watched this one a while ago with my daughter. Chronologically, it was my first Mi...

Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke

July 11, 1997
🇯🇵, 1997, 9️⃣, adult animation/anime, hayao miyazaki🎬, kaoru kobayashi, yōji matsuda, yūko tanaka, yuriko ishida

MOVIE #1,745 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.21.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス I think the “princess” in the title led me astray as far as what my expectations w...

Porco Rosso

Porco Rosso

July 17, 1992
🇯🇵, 1992, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, cary elwes, hayao miyazaki🎬, kimberly williams-paisley, michael keaton, susan egan

MOVIE #1,704 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.07.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス This one seems like a lesser Miyazaki at first glance but I appreciated how weird an...

Kiki's Delivery Service

Kiki's Delivery Service

July 29, 1989
🇯🇵, 1989, 6️⃣, hayao miyazaki🎬, kappei yamaguchi, keiko toda, kids, minami takayama, rei sakuma

MOVIE #1,644 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.17.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス This one’s better than the Lupin III first movie, but not by much. I just kept waiting f...

My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro

April 15, 1988
🇯🇵, 9️⃣, adult animation/anime, chika sakamoto, hayao miyazaki🎬, hitoshi takagi, noriko hidaka, shigesato itoi, sumi shimamoto, tanie kitabayashi, toshiyuki amagasa

MOVIE #1,604 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.03.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス I really just vibed with this one, didn’t take any notes. And I had an excellent t...

Castle in the Sky

Castle in the Sky

August 01, 1986
🇯🇵, 1986, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, barbara goodson, hayao miyazaki🎬, jack witte, louise chambell, rachel vanowen

MOVIE #1,558 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.19.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス Continuing my trend of going at these every which way in terms of audio and subs, I ...

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

March 10, 1984
🇯🇵, 1984, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, gorō naya, hayao miyazaki🎬, iemasa kayumi, sumi shimamoto, yōji matsuda, yoshiko sakakibara

MOVIE #1,518 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.05.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス It’s cartoon time! This is immediately more interesting and serious than the first o...

The Castle of Cagliostro

The Castle of Cagliostro

December 14, 1979
🇯🇵, 1979, 6️⃣, adult animation/anime, bridget hoffman, david hayter, hayao miyazaki🎬, kevin seymour, kirk thornton

MOVIE #1,471 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 03.22.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス The other night, my daughter and I watched Spirited Away on a whim, my first exposure t...