Fan of studio Ghibli? Since February 2020, Netflix has offered a large collection. Among them, the most famous such as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro or The Castle in the Sky. Now is the time to binge-watcher!
For nearly thirty-five years, Studio Ghibli's animated films have been the stuff of dreams for young and old. Their fascinating and enchanted universe created by Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, rocked our childhood or conquered us once we became adults. And for good reason, some of them have been raised to the rank of cinematic masterpiece, and even awarded! This is the case with La Colline aux coquelicots, released in 2011, or Le tombeau des lucioles, released in 1988.
Studio Ghibli films have this ability to open the debate on social issues and on the vices of humanity, playing with our emotions. More than just moral lessons, they serve as real life lessons. Contes de Terremer, released in 2006, talks about human pride, Le voyage de Chihiro, planetary success, deals with forbidden pleasures …
By acquiring the rights to 21 films from Studio Ghibli, Netflix has done very well. This acquisition (carried out not without interest), is also carried by a desire to make them discover to a very large public. For this, and for the first time in the history of the platform, the films are subtitled in 28 languages and dubbed in 20 different languages… Just that ! Not yet subscribed to Netflix? It's happening here.
15. Spirited Away
Release year: 2001
Synopsis: Ten-year-old Chihiro is a capricious child. She has to move in with her parents to a new home, and as the small family uses an uncrowded tunnel to get there, they find themselves in a ghost town. There is a gigantic open-air restaurant there, which is full of delicious food. Chihiro's parents are quick to pounce on them, and find themselves transformed into pigs.
14. Howl's Moving Castle
Release year: 2004
Synopsis: Sophie is an 18-year-old orphan who works hard in the hat shop left to her by her late father. On one of her rare trips to town, she meets Hauru, a handsome wizard who lacks character. A witch who passed by there, misunderstands their feelings and then changes Sophie into an old lady of ninety years. Completely desperate, she wanders the countryside and ends up by chance in the Howl's Moving Castle of Hauru.
13. My neighbor Totoro
Release year: 1988
Synopsis: Two sisters, Mei, 4, and Satsuki, 10, move into a big house in the countryside with their father to be closer to the hospital where their mother stays. There, they discover the existence of wonderful creatures, the Totoros.
12. Kiki's Delivery Service
Release year: 1989
Synopsis: Kiki is 13 years old, and like all witches who reach this age, she has to leave her parents for a year to settle in another city, working in a profession related to her status as a witch. She will meet Osono, a nice baker for whom she will work. Kiki will also quickly find that making new friends is not that easy.
11. The castle in the sky
Release year: 1986
Synopsis: After being kidnapped by hijackers, young Sheeta is barely saved by Pazu, a young orphan working in a mining town. She then reveals to him to be the descendant of the rulers of Laputa, an island floating in the skies, which attracts all lusts.
10. The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Release year: 2013
Synopsis: A bamboo cutter one day discovers a tiny princess inside a bamboo stalk. He then raises her with his wife and as she grows up, the little princess becomes a magnificent woman, whose beauty attracts fiercely determined suitors.
9. Ponyo on the cliff
Release year: 2008
Synopsis: Little Sosuke, five, one day discovers a little goldfish girl named Ponyo, trapped in a jar of jam. After saving her, he decides to keep her with him in a bucket. The two children are fascinated by each other. Yes but there you go, Ponyo wants to become human at all costs and her family, who live in the depths of the ocean, brazenly oppose it.
8. The tomb of the fireflies
Release year: 1988
Synopsis: In Japan in 1945, after the bombing of Kobe, Seita, a fourteen-year-old teenager and his four-year-old sister, Setsuko, are orphans. They go to live with their aunt a few dozen kilometers from their home, but are seen as a nuisance by her. Seita decides to flee with her little sister and the two take refuge in an abandoned bunker in the countryside, where thousands of fireflies live.
7. Tales of Earthsea
Release year: 2006
Synopsis: Arren is prince of the kingdom of Enlad. In order to restore the balance of the world broken by an evil witch, he must ally himself with the forces of the great magician Sparrowhawk. On his journey, he meets Therru, a mysterious young girl.
6. Poppy Hill
Release year: 2011
Synopsis: Since her father's disappearance at sea, Umi, a young high school student who lives on a hill overlooking the port of Yokohama, hoists two pavilions facing the bay every morning, like a message sent to the horizon. In high school, someone wrote an article about this moving story in the campus newspaper. Isn't that the handsome and fearless Shun? Attracted by each other, they will discover many similarities and even a secret that seems to bind them together.
5. The kingdom of cats
Release year: 2002
Synopsis: After accidentally rescuing a cat from a traffic accident, Haru, an unstable high school student, goes from discovery to discovery. The cat in question is none other than the son of the mighty Cat King, which will dramatically change the teenager's life.
4. Porco Rosso
Release year: 1992
Synopsis: In Italy, at the end of the 1920s, pilot Marco, a solitary adventurer, flies aboard his splendid red seaplane. Around this time, a gang of hijackers robbed the wealthy vacationers who enjoyed water cruises. Marco will then come to the aid of people in difficulty.
3. Arrietty, the little world of thieves
Release year: 2010
Synopsis: 14-year-old Arrietty and her family are thieves (tiny humans). They live under the floor of an old house lost in the heart of a huge garden on the outskirts of Tokyo. She knows the rules: no human of normal height should ever see them. But when Shô, a 12-year-old recovering boy, comes to live in his grandmother's house, he soon meets tiny Arrietty.
2. Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind
Release year: 1984
Synopsis: On an Earth ravaged by human madness during the Seven Days of Fire, a few humans have survived. They are now threatened by a poisonous forest and await the salvation of Princess Nausicaä, able to communicate with all living beings.
1. Princess Monokoke
Release year: 1997
Synopsis: Ashitaka, a young Japanese warrior, finds himself stricken with a mysterious ailment after fighting with a giant boar that attacks his village. On the advice of the wise, he goes west, in search of what turned the animal into a demon. His adventure will lead him to San, a young girl who lives with wolves.