So I just watched spirited away and absolutely loved it

So I just watched spirited away and absolutely loved it.

Are there any other miyazaki films that are as good or worth watching?

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no, all of his other films are almost universally hated.

most of them are really good, but be careful people on here will call you reddit for enjoying them

Lupin III
Nausicca
Castle in the Sky

You should stop there before you become a weeb.

They are pretty much all good in their own way.

Though I haven't watched any of the newer ones

but in all seriousness, porco rosso, castle in the sky, and naussica are breddy gud

Whisper of the heart

All of them. If you specifically want that comfy mystical fantasy vibe that Spirited Away has, watch Howl's Moving Castle next.

Won't people here call someone Reddit for enjoying any movie or show?

please don't watch ponyo

more typically ones that reddit and imgur meme about all the time. Miyazaki films fall into that criteria, so people on Sup Forums get mad because 'stop liking what i like'

pretty much every miyazaki film is worth a watch just for the animation, characters and settings. but if you liked spirited away, you will probably like howls moving castle, laputa, totoro and kikis delivery service

princess mononoke comes closest, the others are all fine too.

Princess Mononoke

The fuck you got to say about Ponyo you little faggot bitch.

princess kaguya is one of the best films studio ghibli made, but the main directer is not miyazaki

Almost all of his films are worth watching but these are the ones that I rate the most:
Castle in the sky
Porco rosso
Castle of cagliostro
Kiki's delivery service

And, just so you know it, takahata's films are better than his

What I've seen so far:
Princess Mononoke > > > > > > > > > > > > Spirited Away > > > > > Howl's Moving Castle > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My Neighbor Totoro > > > > > > > > > Kiki's Delivery Service > > > Ponyo

I watched Howl's Moving Castle first on a whim and thought it was pretty decent, so I watched Spirited Away next and thought it was really fucking good, then watched Princess Mononoke and was blown away because it's legit fucking amazing, easily one of my top 3 favorite animated movies ever...
And then everything after that was a horrible crashing disappointment. Just complete fucking vapid soulless cutesy kiddy garbage.
I stopped bothering to watch any of the others because I'm thinking those first three were a fluke, and you honestly cant trust any of these weeaboo faggots opinions on fucking japanese cartoons.

Might get bored enough to try another one some day... maybe...

you must have been raped a lot as a boy because totoro really brings the feels. I cry tears of joy through pretty much the whole thing.

I was abused as a child and Totoro is Miyazaki's masterpiece, it perfectly captures the sense of wonder and the whimsical nature of childhood, it's one for the ages.

fags

I like these movies mostly, except almost all of them have a horribly delivered spiel about emotions and how they care about X. Bonus points if the actor is shout crying.

Whisper of the heart. Maximum comfy in movie form.

I came here to say this. It was absolutely robbed at the Academy Awards. I think it lost to Big Hero 6 or some shit

Seconding Castle in the Sky, it's the first one I ever watched about 12 years ago and I still go back to it occasionally. I've never seen the Japanese dub but the English one is just fine, here OP

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And it turns out that's in Japanese, oh well

>best animated picture Oscar NOT going to Disney/Pixar?

Not in this universe. Kubo and the Two Strings is a masterpiece but will lose to something like Zootopia with it's softball "racism is baaaaad" moral.

The judges don't even watch most animated entries.

>And then everything after that was a horrible crashing disappointment. Just complete fucking vapid soulless cutesy kiddy garbage.
What are you talking about?

>you honestly cant trust any of these weeaboo faggots opinions on fucking japanese cartoons
Weeaboos are mythological beings and anime isn't the same thing as cartoons.

Purobolemo Churiludo tu

It's really ok if you are a pleb. Chill

Watch in this order:

>Lupin III
>Nausicaa
>Castle in the sky
>Porco Rosso
>Princess mononoke
>Howls moving castle

>Bonus: If you like kid's films watch "Totoro" and "Kiki"

Kiki isn't a children's movie per se.

Subtle "themes" aside, its a film marketed towards children.

I like it alot, but I wouldnt compare it to any of the ones I mentioned above.

I agree wholeheartedly fuck that shitty faggot Ponyo is the best animated film of all time.

Its the best looking animated film since Spirited away, but it severely lacks in characters and story.

Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away were meant for children too. The concept of a children's movie is a little different in Japan.

Kiki isn't a children's movie in the American sense, or similar to that.

Agreed, but an adult will also enjoy Spirited away.

An adult might get bored with Kiki.

Youre right, Im just saying it to OP.

now go watch the two best ones.

Pom poko and porco rosso.

It's a slow-paced drama about a teenage girl moving into a new town, and it has no antagonist or a real plot and very little action. Children are more likely to be bored by it than adults.

Youre right again.

Fuck me Im getting old.

>It was absolutely robbed at the Academy Awards

Who fucking cares.

And another thing is that it's quite oblique about Kiki's state of mind and thinking.

When's the last time you watched it? The mother and father have a really interesting dynamic. I also really enjoy the interactions between the boy and those three old women at the retirement home. Ponyo and Sosuke are an adorable and more importantly believable young romance.

I think it's phenomenal how many moving parts are tied together. First the cranky old woman forshadows the tsunami. Then the tsunami has a direct affect on both the mother (forced to help seniors) and the father (stuck on a ship behind a wall of water) setting up for Sosuke's journey to go on without any adult's supervision. And Ponyo picking up the bucket and running to Sosuke is the most honestly sentimental moment I've ever seen in any movie.

I really think you should watch it again. There are about a hundred tiny pieces to Ponyo fitting together to make a perfect picture.

Just watch all of them, they're all good.

My personal favorite is Princess Mononoke.

I love how nobody in here has mentioned The Wind Rises.

Do we all agree that, while decent, it will primarily be remembered as a disappointing final film?

why does nobody mention pom poko?
It's really great.

>Wahh, it's not a nice fairy-tale but an actual real life drama it's so bad wahh

The Wind Rises was good.

Because its not Miyazaki (direction).

Yes, especially when she cant understand the cat anymore is heartbreaking and a cruel truth about the world of women.

I agree with everything you wrote. I like Ponyo alot, but I wouldnt rate it above any of the other Miyazaki fims.

Maybe I grasping for straws. I guess Ponyo is simply "bizarre" in the sense that the whole story in anachronistic and the main character is a fucking fish who doesnt speak.

Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky are the toppest tier for me

My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo are probably the most normie, but they are good. The Wind Rises was decent.

Howl's Moving Castle is okay, Kiki's Delivery Service not so much.

I've spent several minutes pouring over my last post trying to figure out where I saidbthat and I'm just not seeing it.

Maybe the film just isn't that good. No majore stand-out feats of animation from a director know for pushing the medium's boundaries. One-dimensional characters all across the board. The only really great part of the movie is the "I choose a world with pyramids" scene and the rest of it is a waste of time. The viewer's time and the animators' time.

Howl is top tier.

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>and the rest of it is a waste of time. The viewer's time and the animators' time.

Ok, so you didn't like it.

Doesn't mean it was bad.

rottentomatoes.com/m/the_wind_rises/

I like Totoro and Kiki because they're quiet. Complex familial and social relationships are revealed and characters are developed more by what isn't said. That's really hard to do in a visual medium without being blunt or too vague. Most "coming of age" movies are sappy as hell. These aren't.

There was some good animation in it.

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I don't know if Ghibli has ever been known for pushing the boundaries of animation though.

Ghibli dubs suck. Watch them in Japanese.

Also watch Patlabor 1 and 2.

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Patlabor 2 is amazing.
So many great scenes in it.

Patlabor 2 is the thinking mans ghost in the shell.
Mamoru Oshii's montage scenes are amazing.

Howls Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, Ponyo & Grave of the Fireflies are trash.

Porco Rosso & Only Yesterday are the best and Mononoke, Nausicaa + Spirited Away are the epics.

From up on Poppy Hill, Arrietty, When Marnie was there & Princess Kaguya are underrated.

It's a clusterfuck from a troubled man in his 80s. The structure does not work, so the film is boring, and his pacifist ideas are clumsy (compared to in Nausicaa or Mononoke). The entire sequence away at the hotel in the country which allows the protag to align himself with a German rebel is so damn morally convenient. It's also incredibly boring and drags the film out. The love story also doesn't work, it's pretty fucking strange really. It's just Japan is a good boy he dindu nuffin again. I saw it in a good theatre when it came out.

>Howls Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, Ponyo & Grave of the Fireflies are trash.

Stopped reading there.

Howls moving castle would appear to be a great ghibli movie but the actual plot is garbage, especially the end. There is no tension. Everything about the war is uninteresting, not fleshed out and serves as irritating scenery for the entire film.

The Wind rises is good, but it's far from perfect, and many ghibli films are perfect, or nearly so.

Ponyo is a childrens film for children and the ending is also complete garbage.

Grave of the Fireflies is just depression porn and makes you feel like shit.

Howls moving castle is basically the same as Tales from Earthsea, with a cool world, garbage plot and an equally bullshit deus ex machina ending with the scarecrow like in earthsea with the dude who transforms into a dragon to save the day.

Personally my favourite is Porco Rosso, I really like when they take a metaphor and treat it as reality, very nice character development, very smart making a pig so human. Apart from being beautiful and enjoyable the whole thing is under layered with notions of the nature of man and redemption and the impossibility of it. Thought provoking when you really delve into its meaning.

Princess Mononoke's probably rated the highest by aggregates, at least of the earlier films, timeless story definitely worth watching, very much an epic tale, I'm sure it's been talked about enough in this thread already.

The Castle of Cagliostro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, all classic animation, there's something enchanting about that era of style, for sure worth watching.

Ponyo doesn't seem to get a lot of love but I really liked it, it's nice, it's a nice film, nice things happen, it's very much in the vain of My Neighbor Totoro, it will make you feel warm inside, it'll touch your heart and you'll be pleased you've seen them.

I don't think Howl's Moving Castle is much good, could be a disney film, nothing challenging or unexpected there, Kiki's Delivery Service has a similar problem but overall feel like a better film to me, I wouldn't rush to these ones.

The Wind Rises is beautiful and it's dark, I don't understand how you couldn't find it interesting, the guys that built the planes that would bomb pearl harbour, the whole film is steeped in a silent horror. It's about the spirit of japan and the twisted beauty of craftsmanship, and Werner Herzog is in the dub!

>Japan is a good boy he dindu nuffin
how does the film deny the inevitable? in the end it's about futility, about a time in the sun and that time coming to an end, you can see it as a metaphor for the sun setting on the land of the rising sun.

I've only seen Moving castle once but I'll agree that the ending was flat as hell. However, I cant really say I loved Nausicaa that much either. It had so much promise, but in the end you basically just got to see the bugs and not much else. It did have a good ending though.

Why are people talking about Isao Takahata films in here?

the bugs are the looming threat the film was really about people

I just meant on a really superficial level, I thought the movie would show more fantastical scenes and creatures like Spirit Away and Mononoke does, but it was basically just the bugs and that God-thing at the end.

>Everything about the war is uninteresting, not fleshed out and serves as irritating scenery for the entire film.

The war is the main plot key to show how Howl transforms into a monster.

Did you not pay attention?

>the war
the war really isn't fleshed out though it's just a thing that is supposed to be happening that pops its head up and pokes howl a bit so they have an excuse to do something that requires sophie to save them. It's not very organic.

>a time in the sun and that time coming to an end, you can see it as a metaphor for the sun setting on the land of the rising sun.
I guess the eternal Japanese national shame over submitting to the world disgusts me. Also nostalgia for any greatness from the first half of the 20th century is delusional.

I really recommend Mononoke (the series) and Mushishi.

I don't think it's nostalgia, Jiro is treated as somebody forgoing emotional fulfilment to get ahead with their career in a very cold calculating way. It looks at the culture and shows that that is what they thought was good and right, but it hangs the consequences over you at all times, we know the plane they're building is a death machine. It's macabre and it's full of sadness.

Between the two Mushishi is stronger by far, but Mononoke is interesting too with the unique artstyle.

you said 'a time in the sun' that is nostalgia talk.

For the entire film he is only really interested in his work and his dreams, both planes, then for moral convenience at the end of the film he conveniently befriends a German rebel which puts him offside with the Japanese government. It's the kind of device used in a Wes Anderson movie to allow Owen Wilson's character to prove that he is a cool guy, and in a war film it's just bullshit.

I disagree I don't think a time in the sun is necessarily nostalgic, I can talk about the british empire's time in the sun and be nothing but scathing, the summer time doesn't just mean more grass for the heard it means more meat for the wolves.

>which puts him offside with the Japanese government
he still keeps designing that plane though, what he's confronted with ultimately doesn't sway him, that german is like a spectre who's words aren't fully realised.

This.
I wonder why no one ever seems to know about it.

>Castle of cagliostro
Absolutely based.

It's from the 70s, hasn't been shown in America and isn't mecha.

Mononokino

The only Miyazaki movie that is not a childrens movie is The Wind Rises as it deals with heavy adult themes of creative drive and falling in love. It's easily his most sad and personal picture for being his last.

Totoro and Ponyo are the only ones you can really call children's movies.

>anime was a mistake
Was miyazaki right?

He never said it.

>I came here to say this. It was absolutely robbed at the Academy Awards. I think it lost to Big Hero 6 or some shit
You don't know the half of it:

cartoonbrew.com/award-season-focus/proof-that-oscar-voters-are-clueless-about-animation-109456.html

>Voter #5: I only watch the ones that my kid wants to see, so I didn’t see [The] Boxtrolls but I saw Big Hero 6 and I saw [How to Train Your] Dragon [2]. We both connected to Big Hero 6 — I just found it to be more satisfying. The biggest snub for me was Chris Miller and Phil Lord not getting in for [The] Lego [Movie]. When a movie is that successful and culturally hits all the right chords and does that kind of box-office — for that movie not to be in over these two obscure freakin’ Chinese fuckin’ things that nobody ever freakin’ saw [an apparent reference to the Japanese film The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, as well as the Irish film Song of the Sea]? That is my biggest bitch. Most people didn’t even know what they were! How does that happen? That, to me, is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen.

>MY VOTE: Big Hero 6

For little children, perhaps, but Castle in the Sky and Spirited Away are clearly movies for kids from 9 and up. Miyazaki was inspired to make Spirited Away because he saw 10 year old girls acting so apathetic and wanted them to have a real adventure movie that treated them with maturity and respect amid wonder.

Castle in the Sky.

They are not children's movies in the American sense.

now this some shitty taste