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- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosoda, 2006) A lighthearted coming-of-age movie about a girl, Makoto, and her two male friends, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is not a sci-fi anime, as the title might suggest.
- Short Peace (Hiroaki Ando, Hajime Katoki, Shuhei Morita, Katsuhiro Otomo, 2013) Short Peace is a collection of four short films. Katsuhiro Otomo, who managed the project, collaborated with three remarkable anime artists.
- Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004) Although not the best Miyazaki film of the twenty-first century, Howl’s Moving Castle deserves a place on this list.
- The Cat Returns (Hiroyuki Morita, 2002) The Cat Returns started as a short animation commissioned by a theme park. Although the commission was cancelled, Hayao Miyazaki didn’t give up on the project, and extended it to a sort of test film for new Ghibli directors to be overseen by Hiroyuki Morita.
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- Animation Movies For An "Underground" Audience
- Animated Movies from Popular Licenses
One of the most famous producers of animated movies is certainly Studio Ghibli which is often described as a Japanese counterpart to Disney studios. Their original stories or stories adapted from novels are generally (not always!) viewable by all the family, such as My Neighbor Totoro, but they can explore more difficult subjects, such as the histo...
In the meantime, a large part of animated feature films are also targeting a more restricted audience, mainly adults who are interested in edgy artworks related to thriller or science fiction for example. Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue), or Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the shell)’s movies are among the most famous, even for an unaccustomed public.
But many other animation movies are blockbusters featuring popular licenses and attracting millions of spectators. They are theater adaptations of manga, anime or videogames, with original stories or the recounting of one of these works’ meaningful story arc. Some licenses have a movie released almost each year, such as: 1. One Piece, 2. Naruto, 3....
Jun 23, 2017 · The Dull Sword (1917) Director: Junichi Kouchi. Oten Shimokawa’s Imokawa Mukuzo, The Janitor is commonly held as the first Japanese animation released commercially, though there’s no evidence to support this claim beyond its makers’ memoirs. None of the five works Shimokawa produced, all from 1917, survive today.
Almost exclusively based on manga, their print equivalent, anime entail a plethora of genres and elaborate animation, despite being in their majority, at least partially hand-drawn. Here is a list with the best movies of the category, in chronological order.
