Your favorite Studio Ghibli film?
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My sister has a lot of those movies(or had, she moved out and didn't take them with her) and made me watch them with her sometimes. Guess I liked Spirited Away and the Moving Castle one the best. Been a few years since I saw them though.
Howel's moving castle, its just such a sweet film and I love the characters. I'd have to go with spirited away as second choice for much the same reason.
I liked most of the Studio Ghibli films that I have seen but my favourites would have to be Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke. I also thought that Grave of the Fireflies was good but it is not the sort of film you would want to watch regularly 
I like My Neighbor Totoro since I was 10. I have the My Friend Totoro version. Boy was it worse than the Disney rerelease.
Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro. It's nearly perfect in every way, save for the dated animation and some annoyingly lonig scenery wank, which is typical for a Ghibli movie. It tends to get disqualified from a lot of these discussions for whatever reason (not being an original or adapted IP likely), but I think this works in it's benefit.
Porco Rosso, The Secret World of Arietty, and Princess Mononoke are runners up. Howl would be up there (and it really is a BEAUTIFUL movie, visually) but it's just such a huge departure from the book I love that I am overly critical of it.
Porco Rosso, The Secret World of Arietty, and Princess Mononoke are runners up. Howl would be up there (and it really is a BEAUTIFUL movie, visually) but it's just such a huge departure from the book I love that I am overly critical of it.
For genuinely touching and emotional scenes
For absolute and total adorability
I mean seriously, who wouldn't want to hug THAT?
Castle in the Sky. First one I saw, and I just fell in love. It's, at time, a simple adventure flick, and the rest is a love story, and a very good morality tale. Amazingly fun to watch movie.
I also really enjoyed Princess Mononoke. Good one. Oh, and Porco Rosso. I love airplanes, and that time period.
I also really enjoyed Princess Mononoke. Good one. Oh, and Porco Rosso. I love airplanes, and that time period.
Castle in the Sky is my favorite. Great story, fun, good pacing, great music. And likeable characters, very important.
I haven't seen many of them, but it's a tie between Princess Mononoke and Castle in the Sky. I've watched both of them multiple times since I was a kid, and I think they're both fantastic.
Spirited Away is his best film. It's the most fully realized and self-assured. There's not really a misstep in it, and it can be silly and deeply moving inside the same 10 seconds, which is pretty remarkable.
I have a special fondness for Kiki's Delivery Service as well, though, which isn't shared by many. It's so ludicrously warm and gentle and cheering. It makes my heart swell up with simple happiness while watching it.
So...a tie, then.
I have a special fondness for Kiki's Delivery Service as well, though, which isn't shared by many. It's so ludicrously warm and gentle and cheering. It makes my heart swell up with simple happiness while watching it.
So...a tie, then.
I love just watching the town in that film. It makes me want to live there, and I don't even like hilly sea-side towns.BloatedGuppy said:
I am leaning toward Spirited Away, but I also remember one that I saw from Studio Ghibli that I really enjoyed called Only Yesterday. I saw it on tv once a number of years ago, but it has stuck with me. I think Disney owns the rights to its DVD distribution, but for some reason refuses to release it.