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Hey there fellow Ghibli film lover, welcome!
Of course I will be posting as much as I can with all of these pictures and various GIFs! I hope you enjoy this blog!


Who’s excited to watch “The Secret World of Arrietty” on February 17th??!
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Spirited Away (2001) Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood and after her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba, becomes trapped in an alternate reality that is inhabited by spirits and monsters. Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba’s bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and escape back to the human world. To watch Spirited Away, click here.
(Kiki’s Delivery Service, 1989) According to Miyazaki the movie touches on the gulf that exists between independence and reliance in Japanese teenage girls. Going far beyond coming of age themes, the work deals with the nature of creativity and talent, and the central difficulty every person faces in becoming themselves, whether through luck, hard work or confidence: the inner film explores the same questions as the later Whisper of the Heart. Kiki is a 13-year-old witch-in-training, living in a village where her mother is the resident herbalist. It’s traditional for witches to live for a year alone when they reach 13. In the opening of the story, Kiki takes off for the big city with her best friend, Jiji, a loquacious black cat. To watch Kiki’s Delivery Service, click here.
(Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 1984) A Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga of the same name. The film stars the voices of Sumi Shimamoto, Goro Naya, Yoji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara and Iemasa Kayumi. The film tells the story of Nausicaä, a young princess of the Valley of the Wind who gets involved in a struggle with Tolmekia, a kingdom that tries to use an ancient weapon to fend off the Ohms. Nausicaä must stop the Tolmekians from killing these insects. The film was released in Japan on March 4, 1984 and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature. While created before Studio Ghibli was founded, the film is considered to be the beginning of the studio and is often included as part of the Studio’s works. To watch Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, click here.
(Porco Rosso, 1992) Porco Rosso, known in Japan as the ‘Crimson Pig’ is the sixth anime filmdirected by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by Studio Ghibli and released in 1992, of an Italian World War I fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing “air pirates” in the Adriatic Sea. The man has been cursed and transformed into a pig. Once called Marco Pagot, he is now known to the world as “Porco Rosso”, Italian for “Red Pig.” To watch Porco Rosso, click here.
(Mononoke Hime, 1997) Princess Mononoke is an epic Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. Princess Mononoke is a period dramaset specifically in the late Muromachi period of Japan but with numerous fantastical elements. The story concentrates on involvement of the outsider Ashitaka in the struggle between the supernatural guardians of a forest and the humans of the Iron Town who consume its resources. There can be no clear victory, and the hope is that relationship between humans and nature can be cyclical. To watch Princess Mononoke, click here.
(Laputa: Castle in the Sky, 1986)  a 1986 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is the first film created and released by Studio Ghibli. In the movie’s backstory, human civilizations built flying cities, which were destroyed during a catastrophe, forcing the survivors to live on the ground as before. Just one city, Laputa, remains in the sky, concealed by a thunderstorm. To watch Laputa: Castle in the Sky, click here.