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All anime are full length. Full-length anime films

10

  • Year: 1983
  • Genre: Sci-Fi, fantasy, drama
  • Director: Mori Masaki
  • Duration: 83 min

The top anime opens with "Barefoot Gen", which is an adaptation of the manga of the same name by Keiji Nakazawa, released in 1973-74 and telling about the life of a 6-year-old boy Gen and his family before and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

World War II, Japan tries to continue fighting. Many understand the futility of these attempts, but try to convince themselves of the best. And against this background, we are presented with a family that, despite the surrounding poverty, does everything not to forget human values. The father of the family condemns the war and sees nothing good in it. He is looking forward to the birth of his fourth child. But at one moment everything collapses. An atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Only the mother survives, and Gen is the eldest son in the family. From this moment on, all responsibility for the mother and the unborn baby falls on his shoulders.

9

  • Year: 1984
  • Genre: Sci-Fi, fantasy, drama
  • Director: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Duration: 112 min.

Ninth place out of ten is occupied by Studio Ghibli's anime Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, based on the manga of the same name by Hayao Miyazaki. In the future, humanity, which has recklessly exploited nature for centuries, has fallen victim to its pride. A terrible environmental disaster has befallen the Earth, once thriving industrial civilizations have turned to dust, and the surface of the planet has been covered by a giant sea of ​​Forests, emitting poisonous spores from its plants into the atmosphere.

The surviving people have to live in the shadow of the Forest and its monstrous insect-like inhabitants, trying to prevent the spread of harmful vegetation. The peaceful Valley of the Winds is one of the kingdoms formed on the ruins of former states. The inhabitants of the Valley adore their good ruler and his daughter Nausicaä, an unusual girl who finds a common language with the gigantic insects of the Forest, strange creatures of a disturbed ecosystem.

But the serene existence of the Valley of the Winds is disrupted when a small country becomes a pawn in the games of large warlike neighbors fighting for the remnants of the planet’s precious natural resources. However, Nausicaä's hidden potential has yet to be revealed, and the young princess may be able to change the fate of the world.

8

  • Year: 1986
  • Genre: science fiction, fantasy, adventure, family
  • Director: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Duration: 125 min.

The eighth place is occupied by the second film shot at Studio Ghibli - Laputa Castle in the Sky. Miyazaki borrowed the idea of ​​Laputa from Jonathan Swift from the book Gulliver's Travels, where the flying island of the same name appears.

The film takes place in an alternate reality, where an apprentice engineer, Pazu, meets a girl, Sita, who possesses the Flying Stone crystal. Air pirates, the army and government agents are hunting for this stone. The children find out that the stone is of great value and can point the way to the ancient flying island of Laputa, which is considered a legend.

7

  • Year: 2012
  • Genre: fantasy
  • Director: Mamoru Hosoda
  • Duration: 117 min.

In seventh place in our top, for the first time, an anime created in the 21st century appears and this is Wolf Children of Ame and Yuki - a full-length animated film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, released by Studio Chizu in 2012. It should be noted that the Chizu studio was founded specifically to create this film.

Yuki and Ame are seemingly ordinary children who should not care about the hardships of the world around them. When their father, the last representative of an ancient line of werewolves, dies, their mother - an ordinary girl who once fell in love with him - has to move away from the big city and start all over again.

6

  • Year: 2004
  • Genre: Sci-Fi, fantasy, melodrama, adventure
  • Director: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Duration: 119 min.

The anime is based on the fairy-tale novel of the same name by the English writer Diana Wynne Jones. It was nominated for the 78th Academy Award (2006) for Best Animated Feature Film, but lost to Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. According to Miyazaki, the prototype of Howl's Castle is a Russian hut on chicken legs.

The film takes place in a parallel world of Europe at the end of the 19th century, where magic goes hand in hand with the development of technology. The modest life of the hatter Sophie is completely changed when the moving castle of the mysterious wizard Howl, known for his “kidnappings” of girls’ hearts, appears in the vicinity of her city. However, an exciting meeting with Howl brings Sophie the wrath of the Witch of the Waste - out of jealousy, the witch turns the young girl into an old woman. In desperation, Sophie leaves her hometown in search of the Good Wizard Howl's Moving Castle, who can help her. Thus begins Sophie's adventures.

5

  • Year: 1984
  • Genre: Fantasy, adventure, family
  • Director: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Duration: 86 min

Once again, a place in the ranking goes to a work by Studio Ghibli. The cartoon was released in 1984 simultaneously with Grave of the Fireflies, which is also included in our top. At the time, no one thought people would want to watch “a cartoon about two kids with a monster in the countryside,” and Totoro was considered a big investment risk. However, Miyazaki and the editors at Animage wanted to make this film. Well, the risk paid off - the story “about two children with a monster in the countryside” became popular not only in the land of the rising sun, but also beyond its borders, and Totoro himself still appears on the studio logo to this day.

After moving to the village, two little sisters, the older (Satsuki) and the younger (Mei), meet a forest spirit whom Mei calls “Totoro.” Having made friends with the girls, Totoro not only gives them an aerial tour of his possessions, but also helps them see their mother, who is in the hospital.

4

  • Year: 1997
  • Genre: Fantasy, drama, adventure
  • Director: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Duration: 134 min

The young prince Ashitaka, having killed a boar, brought upon himself a mortal curse. The old healer predicted to him that only he himself is capable of changing his destiny. And the brave warrior set off on a dangerous journey. So he found himself in a mysterious country where people, led by the evil Lady Eboshi, fought with the inhabitants of the forest: spirits, demons and giant creatures that Ashitaka had never seen before. And with them was Princess Mononoke, the mistress of the beasts and the daughter of the she-wolf. Now the fate of everyone depends on only one warrior - Prince Ashitaka.

3

  • Year: 1988
  • Genre: Drama, military
  • Director: Isao Takahata
  • Duration: 89 min

In third place is a film adaptation of Akiyuki Nosaka's novel based on the deaths of his two sisters and stepfather during World War II. The book "Grave of the Fireflies" is considered a classic of Japanese literature dedicated to the Second World War and is based on real events: during the Second World War one of his sisters died due to illness, his stepfather died during an air raid on Kobe in March 1945, and then Nosaka's second sister died of hunger. The film adaptation of the book was planned as part of the school curriculum.

Like Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies was purchased by many school boards to show to students. The cartoon was awarded two main prizes at the Chicago Children's International Film Festival (1994) and the Japanese Critics' Blue Ribbon Special Prize.

2

  • Year: 2001
  • Genre: Adventure, family
  • Director: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Duration: 125 min

Second place goes to the world-famous animated film by Studio Ghibli, which was a huge success with critics and audiences and is rightfully included in many lists of the greatest animated films in history, winner of the Oscar in the category “Best Animated Feature Film,” the film “Spirited Away.” (literal translation of the title from Japanese is “Sen and the Mysterious Disappearance of Chihiro”).

The plot of the film is about a 10-year-old girl named Chihiro Ogino who moves to a new house. But it turns out that she ends up in another world, inhabited by ghosts and monsters, and her parents find themselves bewitched and turned into pigs. However, Chihiro does not despair and makes every effort to remove the spell from his parents and return home with them.

1

  • Year: 1999
  • Genre: Action, drama, melodrama
  • Director: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Duration: 120 min

And the first place is awarded to an anime that was released on the eve of the new millennium and tells about cruel times, or, rather, about the cruelty of people whose actions form the image of the times in which they live.

19th century, Japan is torn apart by clan feuds. Little Sinta was sold to slave traders as a child and was ambushed along with others - all of the boy’s companions were stabbed to death before his eyes, but he was saved by a warrior who happened to pass by, skillfully wielding a sword. Shinta becomes his apprentice and becomes a sword master named Kenshin.

The guy chooses the life path of a top-class killer. In one of the operations, he meets the mysterious girl Tomoe, who sees Kenshin in action. Accustomed to not leaving witnesses, the samurai does not kill the girl, but takes her with him. Something trembled in his soul at the sight of Tomoe; perhaps she will soften this brave but cold man?

Bounty Dog, Bounty Dog: Getsumen no Ibu

Genres: Science Fiction, Adventure, Action, Space
Type: Feature film, 30 min.

Watch anime online “Bounty Dog”: Humanity's age-old dream of colonizing the Moon will be fulfilled in the future. People will build cities where before there was nothing but deserted stone landscapes. But it’s worth thinking about: does the Moon itself like such colonization? Of course, planets, like their satellites, are inanimate objects and are not capable of thinking, but...

Another future

Mou Hitotsu no Mirai o

Genres: Fantasy
Type: ONA, 3 eps.

Watch anime online “Another Future”: The R&D Research Institute is diligently studying the possibilities of realizing the cherished dream of many - time travel. The employees of this research institute managed to develop one-way communication with the future using a specially equipped telephone. It just so happened that they were able to synchronize with a difficult device...

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Eden of the East: Paradise Lost

Higashi no Eden: Gekijouban II Paradise Lost


Type: Feature film, 82 min

Watch anime online “Eden of the East: Paradise Lost”: In the final part of the adventures of Saki and Akira, we may find out how the story will end, designed to change the future of Japan with the help of a huge amount of money, tons of weapons and a reliable operator with a cute voice in a mysterious telephone receiver. Will Seleçao take advantage of this opportunity, or...

East Eden: King of Eden

Higashi no Eden: Gekijouban I The King of Eden

Genres: Adventure, romance, detective, thriller, drama, action, fantasy
Type: Feature film, 81 min

Watch anime online “Eden of the East: King of Eden”: As it turned out in the first season, our comrade turned out to be part of the Selesao - a special group of chosen ones who must change the course of history and influence the life of their native country. The film tells about the events that happened further after the end of the anime series. Saki went to the USA to find her...

Tibi-chibi-Idolmaster

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Genres: Comedy, everyday life
Type: ONA, 74 eps.

Watch anime online “Tibi-chibi-Idolmaster”: Continuation of the fun adventures of an eccentric producer whose head looks like a capital letter “P”, his wards - female idols, as well as their faithful companions - charming chibi doubles of the members of the group 765-pro. Each episode will tell one episode from the extravagant life of the heroes. © Baka_Usagi, ANIbox team

Idolmaster: Beyond the bright future!

Idolmaster: To the Bright Side!, The iDOLM@STER Movie: Kagayaki no Mukougawa e!

Genres: Comedy, musical
Type: Feature film, 121 min.

Watch anime online “Idolmaster: Beyond the Bright Future!”: The idol girls of the 765-pro agency have already become quite experienced in their difficult profession. A mystical action film about Sleeping Beauty has already been released, in which people were able to see not only the vocal and plastic abilities of the girls, but also their acting. After the film's release, everyone...

Chibi Idolmaster: The Legend of Golden Takatsuki!

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Makoto Shinkai is an animator, director and screenwriter. He prefers to work alone, making do with minimal resources. He drew his first cartoons without any help on his home computer. Shinkai has been called “the second Miyazaki” more than once for his high-quality and detailed pictures, but the artist himself is too modest to agree with this.

Your name

  • Fantasy, drama, melodrama.
  • Japan, 2016.
  • Duration: 110 min.
  • IMDb: 8.5.

Mitsuha is a high school student from a small town hidden in the mountains. She dreams of growing up quickly and moving to a noisy metropolis. Taki is an ordinary guy living in the center of Tokyo. They have never known each other and have never met anywhere, but an unusual connection still exists between them. In their dreams, Taki and Mitsuha switch bodies and gain the ability to live each other's lives. At first they perceive it as a fun game, but over time everything becomes much more complicated.

Garden of beautiful words

  • Melodrama.
  • Japan, 2013.
  • Duration: 46 min.
  • IMDb: 7.6.

Takao wants to dedicate his life to making shoes, so he regularly escapes from boring school classes to a Japanese kindergarten to calmly draw sketches. One day he meets a mysterious woman, Yukio, who only goes out for walks when it rains. Takao falls in love with her, but the rainy season is coming to an end and it is unknown whether they will ever see each other again.

Catchers of Forgotten Voices

  • Drama, adventure.
  • Japan, 2011.
  • Duration: 116 min.
  • IMDb: 7.3.

The girl Asuna lives in a small Japanese village. She has very few friends, so she spends most evenings on the hillside, listening to an old radio using a magic crystal. One day, on the way to the hill, the girl is attacked by a strange creature, from which the young man Xiong saves her. After this incident, a friendship develops between them, but suddenly Shun dies tragically, and Asuna goes on a risky journey.

5 centimeters per second

  • Drama, melodrama.
  • Japan, 2007.
  • Duration: 63 min.
  • IMDb: 7.8.

Three beautiful and sad stories about love, time and distance, organically connected into one well-drawn cartoon with amazing sound. They are about the life and growing up of the main character Takaki Tono and his attempts to support.

Mamoru Hosoda

Mamoru Hosoda is a director and screenwriter of animated films. He made his first film in high school, while still just a boy. In many interviews, Hosoda says that life experience often serves as the basis and incentive for new scripts for his films. That is why the director has so many works dedicated to family, the process of growing up and developing a personality.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

  • Science fiction, drama, melodrama, comedy.
  • Japan, 2006.
  • Duration: 98 min.
  • IMDb: 7.8.

After surviving a terrible accident, seventeen-year-old Makoto suddenly discovers that she has the ability to travel through time. Inspired by an extraordinary gift, she begins to do her best to improve her life, returning to the past over and over again to fix something. But it soon becomes clear that time travel is not a gift at all, but simply the action of a special device that belongs to the boy Chiaki, who arrived from the future.

Child of the monster

  • Fantasy, adventure.
  • Japan, 2015.
  • Duration: 119 min.
  • IMDb: 7.7.

The story of a homeless orphan boy, Kiyuta, and the bear man, Kumatetsu. The boy and the monster live in different worlds that should not intersect, but what happens is that the inhabitants of a parallel universe take the orphan to themselves. Kiyuta becomes Kumatetsu's student and begins to learn various fighting tricks from him in order to prepare for the impending natural disaster.

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Hiromasa Yonebayashi is considered the youngest director of animation studio Ghibli. In 2016, his feature film Memories of Marnie received an Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category.

Arrietty from the Land of Lilliputians

  • Fantasy.
  • Japan, 2010.
  • Duration: 90 min.
  • IMDb: 7.6.

Twelve-year-old Sho comes to stay at his aunt's ancient house and accidentally saves an unusual tiny girl named Arrietty from a cat. So he learns that next to ordinary people live Lilliputian “miners” who are trying their best to keep their existence a secret. Despite all prohibitions, a friendship begins between Sho and Arrietty, but it does not last long.

Memories of Marnie

  • Drama.
  • Japan, 2014.
  • Duration: 123 min.
  • IMDb: 7.8.

Anna is an incredibly lonely girl who neither her adoptive parents nor anyone else can understand. Her only consolation is drawing. One day, during a lesson in the park, Anna experiences a severe asthma attack, after which her parents decide to send her to her relatives in a house on the coast for treatment. There she meets the mysterious Marnie, who after a while disappears somewhere.

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki is the most famous Japanese animator director, writer, and one of the founders of the Ghibli animation studio. In his works he often pays attention to such complex topics as war, pacifism, environmental problems, man's relationship to nature, and growing up.

Porco Rosso

  • Fantasy, melodrama, adventure.
  • Japan, 1992.
  • Duration: 94 min.
  • IMDb: 7.8.

A cartoon about a virtuoso pilot, Marco Pagotta, who became so disillusioned with people that he was cursed and became like a pig. After the fascists came to power in Italy, Marco began working for the state, protecting merchant ships from attacks by air pirates. They didn't like this very much, so they decided to eliminate Marco, forcing him to fight the real king of flights - ace pilot Curtis.

The wind is getting stronger

  • Drama, biography, history.
  • Japan, 2013.
  • Duration: 126 min.
  • IMDb: 7.8.

The extraordinary life story of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter aircraft during World War II. According to Miyazaki, The Wind Rises is his only animated film made for adults.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

  • Science fiction, fantasy, drama.
  • Japan, USA, 1984.
  • Duration: 112 min.
  • IMDb: 8.1.

A terrible environmental disaster occurred on Earth: almost its entire surface was covered by a toxic sea. The only island of peace in this world remains only the Valley of the Winds - a serene kingdom ruled by the unusual girl Nausicaä and her wise father. This piece of paradise haunts residents of other surviving states who decide to fight for the remaining natural resources.

Goro Miyazaki

Goro Miyazaki is a Japanese artist and director, son of the famous Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki's father was opposed to his son getting involved in directing, arguing that he did not yet have enough experience. But Goro still started working on his own animated series and to date has already released several independent works.

From the slopes of Kokuriko

  • Drama.
  • Japan, 2011.
  • Duration: 91 min.
  • IMDb: 7.4.

Since childhood, Umi has been accustomed to being independent and solving problems alone. She was not at a loss even at the moment when she had to go to Tokyo for an important meeting with the school’s sponsor in order to save the building from demolition. While all these events were happening, the girl did not even notice how unexpectedly it was.

Yoshifumi Kondo

Yoshifumi Kondo is a Japanese animator, designer and production director who worked at Studio Ghibli together with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Unfortunately, Kondo died of an aneurysm, but left behind several magnificent works as a keepsake.

Whisper of the Heart

  • Drama, melodrama.
  • Japan, 1995.
  • Duration: 111 min.
  • IMDb: 8.0.

Shizuku loves books very much and tries to spend every free minute reading. She soon notices that all the books she borrows from the library have already been read by a certain Seiji Amasawa. Shizuku decides to find out who this mysterious stranger is, with whom her interests coincide so much, and to get to know him better.

Isao Takahata

Isao Takahata - director, screenwriter, producer, co-founder of Studio Ghibli. His works are wise, melancholic and largely realistic, so if you want to watch something dreamy and light, then choose something else from the list.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

  • Fantasy.
  • Japan, 2013.
  • Duration: 125 min.
  • IMDb: 8.1.

An anime based on the ancient Japanese folk tale "The Tale of Old Man Taketori". One day, while walking through the forest, old man Taketori came across a strangely glowing stalk of bamboo. When he took a closer look, he discovered a tiny girl who would change his life forever.

Grave of the Fireflies

  • Drama, military.
  • Japan, 1988.
  • Duration: 89 min.
  • IMDb: 8.5.

An anime about the difficult and dramatic fate of two orphans who lost their parents during World War II and are now forced to survive in the cruel post-war world on their own.

Satoshi Kon

Japanese director Satoshi Kon is not very famous, but his work inspired such directors as and, and this already means something. In his films, the director likes to touch on various acute social problems.

Once upon a time in Tokyo

  • Drama, comedy, adventure.
  • Japan, 2003.
  • Duration: 88 min.
  • IMDb: 7.9.

Wandering the streets of Tokyo, three homeless beggars find an abandoned newborn baby on the street. Homeless people decide to help the little girl find her parents, no matter the cost.

Paprika

  • Detective.
  • Japan, 2006.
  • Duration: 90 min.
  • IMDb: 7.7.

In the near future, the DC Mini device was invented, allowing doctors to penetrate the dreams and fantasies of patients. It was not dangerous until it fell into the hands of attackers who, with its help, began to drive innocent people crazy.

Would you like to recommend some other good anime that is not in the selection? Welcome to the comments!

Last week, the anime “Your Name,” directed by Makoto Shinkai, was released in Russia; it has already become the highest-grossing anime of all time, having replaced the previous leader, “Spirited Away,” in this place. “The Futurist” invites you to remember which anime films became cult not only in Japan, but also in the West.

"Pokemon: Mewtwo vs. Mew"(1998)

Director Stars: Kunihiko Yuyama, Michael Haney

Collections in the world : $163.6 million

Everyone remembers the Pokemon series with Ash, Pikachu and their friends, but the full-length history of Pokemon is even more successful and has 19 films that have earned over $956.7 million in total. The first film in the series, Mewtwo vs. Mew, is the most popular of them all. . The film is divided into three parts - the first tells a short story of Pikachu, and the second is a prologue to the main film, in which Ash and Pikachu take part in the largest Pokemon tournament.

"Barefoot Gen" (1983)


Director : Mori Masaki

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Film based on biographical manga Keiji Nakazawa , tells the story of how a boy named Gen experiences the end of the war and one of the most terrible events in Japanese history - the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Having lost almost his entire family and being left alone with his mother and newborn little sister, Gen struggles with death from starvation and radiation sickness that struck many of those who survived the bomb.

"My Neighbor Totoro"(1988)


Director : Hayao Miyazaki

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Early strip Hayao Miyazaki was planned as part of an aesthetic education program for Japanese schoolchildren and was shown together with Grave of the Fireflies. Two girls and their father move from the city to the village, get used to their new life and meet different forest spirits. Soon, the giant forest guardian Totoro became one of the most recognizable images of Japanese animation, and references to Totoro are found in many Japanese films.

"Ninja Scroll"(1993)


Director Stars: Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kevin Seymour

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One of the pillars of Japanese animation and a recognized classic along with Akira and Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scribe contributed to the popularity of adult-oriented anime films outside of Japan. The film tells the story of a samurai warrior who kills a legendary demon and saves a girl. Now he is being hunted by the rest of the "demons" from the "Eight Demons of Kimon", who turned out to be ninjas with outstanding abilities.

"The Wind Rises"(2013)


Director : Hayao Miyazaki

Collections in the world : $133.4 million

They promised that the film would be the last in the career of the master of animation, although Miyazaki himself later said that he had changed his mind. The story is based on the biography of a Japanese designer Jiro Horikoshi , who designed the main Japanese fighter aircraft of World War II. The film tells about a man who followed his dream - he could not become a pilot due to myopia, but found himself in aircraft construction. The title of the film refers to the poem Fields of Verlaine “The wind is getting stronger! You have to try to live."

"The Wolf Children of Ame and Yuki"(2012)


Director : Mamoru Hosoda

Collections in the world : $52.1 million

One of the most popular anime of 2012, the film tells the story of the children Yuki and Ame, whose father was a member of an ancient line of werewolves. When he dies, their mother moves to a new place and tries to start over, hiding from strangers. Children grow up and are faced with a choice - to become a wolf or remain human.

"True Sadness" ( 1998)


Director : Satoshi Kon

Collections in the world : n/a

The film is about a pop singer Mimarin Kirigo , who decides to leave the music group and try herself as an actress. Fans react to this too violently, and one of them begins to keep a diary for her on the Internet, which describes daily events in the life of the actress. When she is offered an unusual film role, Mimarin is faced with a choice - to remain an actress or return to her career as a pop star.

"D: Bloodlust" (2000)


Director : Yoshiaki Kawajiri

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The film tells one of Japan's iconic vampire stories, comparable only to the success of Mad House's Hellsing films, but much more elegantly executed. The film takes place in the distant future, where the hunt for vampires is still carried out by an experienced destroyer of the undead, nicknamed Dee, who himself is half a vampire and uses this in the fight against enemies. The love story of a vampire and a mortal girl, which became the basis of the plot of "Bloodlust", became a new case in a series of stories involving Dee, whose world was originally described in a series of novels Hideyuki Kikuchi .

"Paprika" (2006)

Director : Satoshi Kon

Collections in the world : $944 thousand

A philosophical painting reflecting on the nature of dreams and reality, released 4 years before “Inception” Christopher Nolan , and, in a sense, superior in concept. A group of scientists invents DS Mini - a device that allows you to penetrate other people's dreams. When the device is stolen, inexplicable things begin to happen to the world, reality and dreams are blurred, and the main characters must overcome themselves in order to defeat the awakened evil. A love letter to Western cinema, Paprika is stunning with visuals that rival Inception.

"Grave of the Fireflies"(1988)


Director : Isao Takahata

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One of the cult films of Japanese cinema, which was even included in the Japanese school curriculum, received such respect not by chance. She talks about the painful and historical turning points for Japan in the Second World War. The plot is based on a novel Akiyuki Nosaki , who described the death of his loved ones during the war. The name refers to the Japanese belief that the souls of soldiers killed in battle become fireflies. Among the old Japanese aristocracy, there was entertainment when spectators gathered on the river bank at night and watched the “firefly wars.”

"Garden of Fine Words"(2013)


Director : Makoto Shinkai

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This film is worthy of mention and viewing before going to the premiere of Your Name, if only because of the number of references. Makoto Shinkai loves to remind viewers of his previously filmed films. The story of a truant schoolboy and his strange meeting with a mysterious stranger in the park, tied to the theme of rain, admiring nature and the change of seasons, allows us to better understand the purely Japanese “contemplative” approach of the director to his films.

"Arietty from the Land of Lilliputians"(2010)


Director : Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Collections in the world : $145.6 million

The production project of Hayao Miyazaki, which, like many films by Studio Ghibli, paid for itself many times over at the box office. The love story about a midget girl who finds a common language with an adult man received critical and audience acclaim, and also won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Animated Film.

"Whisper of the Heart" (1995)


Director : Yoshifumi Kondo

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Filmed from a script by Hayao Miyazaki with the participation of the famous Japanese impressionist artist in the landscape work Naohisa Inoue , the film quickly became a Studio Ghibli classic. The plot tells the story of a girl who loves to read and over and over again comes across the name of one boy in the library cards of her books. Their meeting becomes a director's exploration of a girl's first love, her feelings and growing up.

"The Girl Who Leapt Through Time"(2006)


Director : Mamoru Hasoda

Collections in the world : n/a

An inventive time travel film. The girl Makoto Konno accidentally gained access to a time travel device and is using it to try to arrange her life, but she is not very good at it. Along the way, she meets her classmate Chiaki, who is the owner of a time travel device, but he had his own goal of traveling to the past.

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)


Director : Hayao Miyazaki

Collections in the world : $235 million

According to the plot, an evil witch imprisoned 18-year-old Sophie in the body of an old woman. Sophie meets the powerful wizard Howl and his demon Calcifer, hoping that they will help her get rid of the curse. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

"5 centimeters per second"(2007)


Director : Makoto Shinkai

Collections in the world : n/a

This film became the second full-length animated film by the director of Your Name. Three short stories tell about the life of an ordinary Japanese youth, showing his childhood, adolescence and growing up. The film, despite its belonging to animation, is considered by the Japanese themselves to be exclusively adult, “contemplative”, since it does not contain bright plot twists or sharp drama.

"Princess Mononoke"(1997)


Director : Hayao Miyazaki

Collections in the world : $159.4 million

Hayao Miyazaki's epic tells the story of the exiled warrior Ashitaka and his quest to escape the curse placed on him by a boar. Fantasy in which giant-sized animals talk and wage their wars honed Miyazaki's craft and made him a superstar, as well as the beginning of the continued financial success of his films around the world.

"Akira" (1988)


Director : Katsuhiro Otomo

Collections in the world : $49 million

At that time, the most expensive anime film in history, Akira became a new word in animation and the use of computer special effects. A cult movie, the film attracted the attention of Western audiences. Along with “Ghost in the Shell” and “Ninja Scroll,” it is a landmark film in the history of anime. The film takes place in a hypothetical year 2019 after World War III and the nuclear bombing of Japan, and the main characters are children with supernatural powers.

"Ghost in armor"(1995)


Director : Mamoru Oshii

Collections in the world: n/a

The iconic cyberpunk that inspired the brothers (now sisters) Wachowski to The Matrix, Ghost in the Shell became a cultural phenomenon, spawning a sequel, a TV series, an anime prequel, and a Hollywood remake with Scarlett Johansson starring. In the story, the cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi must stop a hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer.

"Spirited Away"(2001)


Director : Hayao Miyazaki

Collections in the world : $274.9 million

One of the most famous anime of all time, the film is also the only anime to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. In the story, the little girl Chihiro must save her parents from the evil spell of a witch, along the way she meets a flying dragon, who turns out to be a boy. This film finally turned Miyazaki into a living legend; after this picture, any of his films enjoyed constant success with the public and critics.

Japanese cartoons, which are commonly called anime, differ significantly from animated films in other countries. The best films of this genre have gained enormous popularity among viewers and won prestigious awards.

For fans of Japanese animated films, we present anime cartoons, list of the best.

year 2001

(2001) opens the top ten best animated films. The anime describes events taking place back in 2071 on the planet Mars. A terrible tragedy befalls the red planet. A terrorist attack using a biochemical weapon of mass destruction kills hundreds of colonists. The one who committed this crime must suffer a well-deserved punishment, therefore a huge premium is awarded for the capture of the scoundrel...

2010

On the ninth line in the list of the best anime cartoons is (2010) Hiromasa Enebayashi. The story is about little people who call themselves “miners.” They live near people and use human things as needed. Their existence is kept secret because being seen by people means serious problems for them. One of these little people - young Arrietty - is noticed by 12-year-old Se...

year 2012

(2012) is ranked eighth on the list of the best Japanese animation works. Yuki and Ame are just seemingly ordinary children who should not care about the hardships of the world around them. When their father, the last representative of an ancient family of werewolves, dies, their mother - an ordinary girl who once fell in love with a man who turned out to be a wolf - has to move away from the big city and start all over again.

year 2013

(2013) is ranked seventh in the list of the best anime cartoons. The latest work of Hayao Miyazaki, nominated for an Oscar as best animated film and participating in the competition program of the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Plot: the boy Jiro dreams of flying and beautiful planes that can outrun the wind. But he won’t become a pilot - he’s been nearsighted since birth. But Jiro does not give up on his dream of the sky, he begins to invent the ideal aircraft and over time becomes one of the best aircraft designers in the world. On the way to success, he will not only meet many interesting people, survive the Great Tokyo Earthquake and brutal wars, but also find the love of his life - the beautiful Naoko.

2007

(2007) - one of the best Japanese anime cartoons. The animated film covers more than ten years of the life of the main character Takaki Tono. Consists of three stories that begin their narrative in Japan in the mid-1990s. The full anime consists of 3 parts: “Excerpt about cherry blossoms”, “Cosmonaut”, “5 centimeters per second”.

1995

(1995) is located in the middle of the ranking of the best animated films. The story follows Shizuku Tsukishima, a middle school student who loves to spend her free time reading books. However, no matter what volume she took from the library, the name of Seiji Amasawa was always listed on its form. After meeting an unusual boy, Shizuku realizes that he is her first love. Communication with him opens up her inner world for a girl, she learns a lot of new things both about others and about herself. One of the main themes touched upon in the plot is the period of growing up and first love, adolescence in all its manifestations. The evolution of the girl's feelings is examined in many details - from dissatisfaction with the annoying boy to attachment to him. However, the most important theme is the search for oneself and overcoming difficulties on the way to one's dreams.

2006

(2006) ranks fourth on the list of the best anime cartoons. The animated film is confidently included in the top 250 best films according to Kinopoisk. “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” is based on the novel of the same name by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Seventeen-year-old Makoto Konno is not a very good student, is often late, and doesn't know what she wants to be after graduating from school. In the evenings she plays baseball with friends, every morning she jumps on her bike and hurries to class. But suddenly a strange event happens in her usual measured life, and Makoto gains the ability to travel through time...

1997

(1997) opens the top three anime cartoons. It is one of the highest-grossing animated films in Japan. The plot of the animated film takes place in the Muromachi era, when the first firearms appeared in the Land of the Rising Sun. The young prince Ashitaka, having killed a boar, brought upon himself a mortal curse. The old healer predicted to him that only he himself is capable of changing his destiny. And the brave warrior set off on a dangerous journey. So he found himself in a mysterious country where people, led by the evil Lady Eboshi, fought with the inhabitants of the forest: spirits, demons and giant creatures that Ashitaka had never seen before. Together with them, Princess Mononoke is the mistress of the beasts and the daughter of the she-wolf. Now the fate of everyone depends on only one warrior - Prince Ashitaka.

2004

(2004) takes second place in the list of the best animated films. Hayao Miyazake's anime is based on the fairy tale of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones. The Oscar-nominated film Howl's Moving Castle, according to the Japanese director, is the prototype of a Russian hut on chicken legs. Plot: An evil witch imprisoned 18-year-old Sophie in the body of an old woman. In search of someone who will help her return to her appearance, Sophie meets the powerful wizard Howl and his demon Calcifer. Calcifer must serve Howl under a contract, the terms of which he cannot divulge. The girl and the demon decide to help each other get rid of the evil spell...

year 2001

(2001) tops the list of the best anime cartoons. The animated Japanese film by Hayao Miyazaki was a huge success among critics and audiences, and in 2002 it was awarded the Oscar, Golden Bear and other prestigious awards for best animated film. In Japan, Spirited Away became the highest-grossing anime film of all time. The main character of the animated film, the girl Chihiro, and her parents move to live in a new place. On the way to their new home, the main characters got lost, ending up in an unfamiliar, deserted city, where a magnificent feast was prepared for them. The parents, who decide to try the free food, turn into pigs to Chihiro's horror. The girl learns that this is the work of an evil and powerful witch. Chihiro must find an “antidote” to the old woman’s spell in order to bring back mom and dad.



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