Studio Ghibli

is a Japanese animation film studio, and previously was a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten. Its anime films have been provocative, imaginative, emotional and widely praised all over the world. Its name derives from the nickname the Italians used for their Saharan scouting planes in the Second World War, which derived from the Libyan word for hot wind blowing through the Sahara Desert (also known as sirocco). Though the term is Italian, the Japanese pronunciation of the studio's name is (IPA: ). The theory behind the name was that the studio was blowing a new wind into the Japanese anime industry. The company's logo features the character Totoro from the film My Neighbor Totoro.
Founded in 1985, it is headed by the acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki along with his colleague and mentor Isao Takahata, as well as the studio's executive managing director and long-time producer Toshio Suzuki. Its origins date back to 1983, with the film Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, which was popularised as a serialized manga in a publication of Tokuma Shoten's Animage magazine after the original screenplay was rejected. The film was eventually produced by Topcraft and the film's success spurred the formation of Ghibli. Tokuma is the parent company of Studio Ghibli, and has provided Disney with the video rights to eight of the films and global distribution rights to Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. Miyazaki's latest film, Howl's Moving Castle, was actually based on a book by British author Diana Wynne Jones, published in several countries including Canada and the United States. Composer Joe Hisaishi has provided the soundtrack for all of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films.
The most famous and lauded film from the studio that was not directed by Miyazaki is Grave of the Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata, a sad film focusing on the lives of two war orphans towards the end of Second World War in Japan.
Over the years, there has been a close relationship between Studio Ghibli and the magazine Animage, which regularly runs exclusive articles about the studio and its members in a section titled "Ghibli Notes." Artwork from Ghibli's films and other works frequently graces the cover of the magazine.
The company is well known for its strict "no-edits" policy in licensing their films abroad. This has stemmed from the disastrous dubbing of Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind when the film was released in the United States (it was heavily edited and Americanized). There is a rumour that when licensing Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki mailed the respective studio a sword, to underline their "no-editing" policy, although in a recent interview with The Guardian, he claims: "my producer did that".
==Works==
===Films===
Year	Title 	Director 	Screenwriter(s) 	Producer(s) 	Music 	Commercial premiere 	Running time	Rotten Tomatoes
1984	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Isao Takahata 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: March 11, 1984 	117 minutes 	89%)
1986	Castle in the Sky 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Isao Takahata 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: August 2, 1986 	124 minutes 	96% (1989 was the year of its U.S. release.)
1988	Grave of the Fireflies 	Isao Takahata 	Isao Takahata 	Toru Hara 	Michio Mamiya 	Japan: April 16, 1988 	88 minutes 	100%
1988	My Neighbor Totoro 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toru Hara 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: April 16, 1988 	86 minutes 	95%
1989	Kiki's Delivery Service 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: July 29, 1989 	103 minutes 	98%
1991	Only Yesterday 	Isao Takahata 	Isao Takahata 	Toshio Suzuki 	Masaru Hoshi 	Japan: July 20, 1991English dub premiere: January 1, 2016	119 minutes 	100% (2016 was the year of its U.S. release.)
1992	Porco Rosso 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toshio Suzuki 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: July 18, 1992 	93 minutes 	95%
1993	Ocean Waves 	Tomomi Mochizuki 	Kaori Nakamura (Keiko Niwa) 	Nozomu Takahashi, Seiji Okuda & Toshio Suzuki	Shigeru Nagata 	Japan: May 5, 1993United States: December 28, 2016 	72 minutes 	88%
1994	Pom Poko 	Isao Takahata 	Isao Takahata 	Toshio Suzuki 	Shang Shang Typhoon	Japan: July 16, 1994 	119 minutes 	86%
1995	Whisper of the Heart 	Yoshifumi Kondō 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toshio Suzuki 	Yuji Nomi 	Japan: July 15, 1995 	111 minutes 	94% (2006 was the year of its U.S. TV & DVD release.)
1997	Princess Mononoke 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toshio Suzuki 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: July 12, 1997United States: October 29, 1999 	133 minutes 	93% (1999 was the year of its U.S. release.)
1999	My Neighbors the Yamadas 	Isao Takahata 	Isao Takahata 	Toshio Suzuki 	Akiko Yano 	Japan: July 17, 1999 	103 minutes 	78%
2001	Spirited Away 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toshio Suzuki 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: July 20, 2001United States: September 20, 2002 	124 minutes 	97%
2002	The Cat Returns 	Hiroyuki Morita 	Reiko Yoshida 	Nozomu Takahashi & Toshio Suzuki 	Yuji Nomi 	Japan: July 19, 2002 	75 minutes 	90%
2004	Howl's Moving Castle 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toshio Suzuki 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: November 20, 2004United States: June 10, 2005 	119 minutes 	87% (2005 was the year of its U.S. release.)
2006	Tales from Earthsea 	Gorō Miyazaki 	Gorō Miyazaki & Keiko Niwa 	Toshio Suzuki 	Tamiya Terashima 	Japan: July 29, 2006United States: August 13, 2010 	115 minutes 	43% (2010 was the year of its U.S. release.)
2008	Ponyo 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toshio Suzuki 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: July 19, 2008United States: August 14, 2009 	101 minutes 	92% (2009 was the year of its U.S. release.)
2010	Arrietty 	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	Hayao Miyazaki & Keiko Niwa 	Toshio Suzuki 	Cécile Corbel 	Japan: July 17, 2010United States: February 17, 2012 	94 minutes 	95% (It was released in the U.S. under this title in 2012.)
2011	From Up on Poppy Hill 	Gorō Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki & Keiko Niwa 	Toshio Suzuki 	Satoshi Takebe 	Japan: July 16, 2011United States: March 15, 2013 	91 minutes 	86% (2013 was the year of its U.S. release.)
2013	The Wind Rises 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toshio Suzuki 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: July 20, 2013United States: February 21, 2014 	126 minutes 	88% (2014 was the year of its U.S. release.)
2013	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 	Isao Takahata 	Isao Takahata & Riko Sakaguchi 	Yoshiaki Nishimura 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: November 23, 2013United States: October 17, 2014 	137 minutes 	100% (2014 was the year of its U.S. release.)
2014	When Marnie Was There 	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Keiko Niwa & Masashi Ando	Yoshiaki Nishimura 	Takatsugu Muramatsu	Japan: July 19, 2014United States: May 22, 2015 	102 minutes 	91% (2015 was the year of its U.S. release.)
2020	Earwig and the Witch 	Gorō Miyazaki 	Keiko Niwa & Emi Gunji 	Toshio Suzuki 	Satoshi Takebe 	December 30, 2020 	82 minutes 	29%
2023	How Do You Live? 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Hayao Miyazaki 	Toshio Suzuki 	Joe Hisaishi 	Japan: July 14, 2023 	125 minutes 	TBA
: Not produced, but released by Studio Ghibli under its label.
===Short films===
*Sora Iro no Tane (1992) (TV short film)
*Nandarou (1992) (TV short film)
*On Your Mark (1995) (a music video created for Chage & Aska)
*Ghiblies (2000) (TV short film)
*Ghiblies Episode 2 (2002) (shown in theaters with The Cat Returns)
*Kusoh no Kikai-tachi no Naka no Hakai no Hatsumei (The Invention of Destruction in the Imaginary Machines) (2002) (Shown at the Ghibli Museum)
*Koro no Daisanpo (Koro's Big Day Out) (2003) (The first of three short films shown at the Ghibli Museum in 2003)
*Kujiratori (The Whale Hunt) (2003)
*Mei to Konekobasu (Mei and the Kittenbus) (2003)
*Yadosagashi (Looking for a Home) (2005) (The first of three short films shown at the Ghibli Museum in 2006)
*Hoshi wo Katta Hi (The Day I Cropped/Harvested a Star) (2005)
*Mizugumo Monmon (Water Spider Monmon) (2005)
*The Night of Taneyamagahara (2006)
===Other works===
The works listed here consist works that don't fall into either category above.
*Nandarou (1992) (TV commercial for NHK)
*Umacha (2001) (TV commercials)
*Lasseter-san, Arigatou (2003) (thank you video created for John Lasseter)
==Related works==
These works were not created by Studio Ghibli, but were produced by members of Topcraft that went on to create Studio Ghibli in 1985 or created in cooperation with Studio Ghibli.
===Pre-Ghibli===
*Hols: Prince of the Sun (1968) (Takahata's directorial debut, with a screenplay by Kazuo Fukazawa; Hayao Miyazaki was scenic designer and a key animator)
*Puss 'n Boots (1969) (Directed by Kimio Yabuki, written by Hisashi Inoue and Morihisa Yamamoto with gag supervision by Nakahara Yumihiko, key animators include Yasuo Otsuka, Yoichi Kotabe, Reiko Okuyama, Takuo Kikuchi, Akemi Ota, Hayao Miyazaki, and Akira Daikubara)
*Animal Treasure Island (1971) (Directed by Hiroshi Ikeda, written by Hiroshi Ikeda and Takashi Iijima with idea construction/adaptation by Hayao Miyazaki; Hayao Miyazaki was also scenic designer and a key animator)
*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1972) (by Topcraft for Rankin-Bass)
*The Hobbit (1977) (by Topcraft for Rankin-Bass; won the Peabody Award; artists include: Hidetoshi Kaneko, Kazuko Ito and Minoru Nishida;)
*Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
*The Return of the King (1980) (by Topcraft for Rankin-Bass; done by basically the same team that did The Hobbit, with the addition of Tadakatsu Yoshida)
*The Last Unicorn (1982) (by Topcraft for Rankin-Bass )
*The Flight of Dragons (1982) (by Topcraft for Rankin-Bass)
*Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Topcraft, 1984)
*ThunderCats (1985) (an animated series created by Topcraft for Rankin-Bass)
*Angel's Egg (1985) (a Mamoru Oshii film co-produced by Tokuma Shoten, the parent company of Studio Ghibli)
===Cooperative works===
*The Story of Yanagawa's Canals (1987) (a documentary by Isao Takahata)
*Ozanari Dungeon (1991) (an OVA series for which Studio Ghibli did some animation work)
*Kirikou et la sorcière (1998) (a Michel Ocelot adapted into Japanese by Isao Takahata and distributed by Studio Ghibli)
*Shiki-Jitsu (2000) (directed by Hideaki Anno under a live action division of Tokuma Shoten, Studio Kajino)
*Innocence: Ghost in the Shell (2004) (a film by Production I.G.)
In addition, Ghibli did work on Takahata's short in the 2004 experimental animation anthology Winter Days.
== See also ==
* The Ghibli Museum is in Mitaka, Tokyo.
*Yasuo Ōtsuka
== External links ==
* Official Japanese website
* Official USA website
* Official Australian website
* Official UK & Ireland website
* Tokuma Shoten website (in Japanese)
* Nausicaa.net: The Hayao Miyazaki Web (the largest English language source on Ghibli's films and other related anime works)
* GhibliWorld.com: The Ultimate Ghibli Collection Site (English Ghibli source with news updates straight from Japan and info about Studio Ghibli goods)
* The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for Studio Ghibli Animation
* Topcraft/Studio Ghibli: The Complete History (English and Italian)
==References==
Category:Anime companies
Category:Animation studios
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Category:Movie Studios
Category:Subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company
Category:Joint ventures
Category:Toho animated films
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