Ghibli Films by Preference
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Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Sadie
Basic Story: Sadie runs a small hat shop and leads an uneventful life until one day she runs into the Wizard Howl and is cursed by the Witch of the Wastes.
Including Voices By:
Jean Simmons (Sadie-old), Christian Bale (Howl), Lauren Bacall (Witch of the Wastes), Blythe Danner, Billy Crystal, and Jena Malone
Main Character: Sadie
Basic Story: Sadie runs a small hat shop and leads an uneventful life until one day she runs into the Wizard Howl and is cursed by the Witch of the Wastes.
Including Voices By:
Jean Simmons (Sadie-old), Christian Bale (Howl), Lauren Bacall (Witch of the Wastes), Blythe Danner, Billy Crystal, and Jena Malone
Elfflame's rating:
Spirited Away (2001)
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Chihiro/Sen (same character, two names)
Basic Story: Chihiro and her parents are oving into a new town, but they end up lost, and find themselves in a place of spirits.
Including Voices By:
Suzanne Pleshette, David Ogden Stiers, Lauren Holley, Michael Chilkis, John Ratzenberger
Main Character: Chihiro/Sen (same character, two names)
Basic Story: Chihiro and her parents are oving into a new town, but they end up lost, and find themselves in a place of spirits.
Including Voices By:
Suzanne Pleshette, David Ogden Stiers, Lauren Holley, Michael Chilkis, John Ratzenberger
Elfflame's rating:
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Kiki
Basic Story: Kiki is setting out to become a fully-fledged witch, which means finding her place in the world.
Including Voices By:
Kirsten Dunst (Kiki), Debbie Reynolds, Phil Hartman, Edie McClurg, and Janeane Garofalo
Main Character: Kiki
Basic Story: Kiki is setting out to become a fully-fledged witch, which means finding her place in the world.
Including Voices By:
Kirsten Dunst (Kiki), Debbie Reynolds, Phil Hartman, Edie McClurg, and Janeane Garofalo
Elfflame's rating:
Status: seen but not owned
Main Character: Arrietty
Basic Story: Arrietty and her family are borrowers, a race of tiny people who borrow the things they think humans will never miss.
Including Voices By:
Will Arnett, Amy Pohler, and Carol Burnett
Main Character: Arrietty
Basic Story: Arrietty and her family are borrowers, a race of tiny people who borrow the things they think humans will never miss.
Including Voices By:
Will Arnett, Amy Pohler, and Carol Burnett
Elfflame's rating:
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Haru
Basic Story: Haru keeps a cat from being run over one day--and finds herself being rewarded by the cat kingdom for saving their Crown Prince.
Including Voices By:
Anne Hathaway (Haru), Carey Elwes, Kristin Bell, Rene Auberjonois, Peter Boyle, Elliot Gould, and Tim Curry
Main Character: Haru
Basic Story: Haru keeps a cat from being run over one day--and finds herself being rewarded by the cat kingdom for saving their Crown Prince.
Including Voices By:
Anne Hathaway (Haru), Carey Elwes, Kristin Bell, Rene Auberjonois, Peter Boyle, Elliot Gould, and Tim Curry
Elfflame's rating:
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Pazu
Basic Story: One day, a strange girl falls into Pazu's life, and he finds himself on a strange quest to learn where the girl came from.
Including Voices By:
James Van Der Beek (Pazu), Anna Panquin (Sheeta), Cloris Leachman, Mark Hamill, Mandy Patinkin, and Andy Dick
Main Character: Pazu
Basic Story: One day, a strange girl falls into Pazu's life, and he finds himself on a strange quest to learn where the girl came from.
Including Voices By:
James Van Der Beek (Pazu), Anna Panquin (Sheeta), Cloris Leachman, Mark Hamill, Mandy Patinkin, and Andy Dick
Elfflame's rating:
Ponyo (2008)
Status: seen, not owned
Main Character: Sosuke
Basic Story: Sosuke and his mother live by the sea. And one day, he meets a creature that he decides to adopt, called Ponyo.
Including Voices By:
Cate Blanchette, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Betty White, and Lily Tomlin
Main Character: Sosuke
Basic Story: Sosuke and his mother live by the sea. And one day, he meets a creature that he decides to adopt, called Ponyo.
Including Voices By:
Cate Blanchette, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Betty White, and Lily Tomlin
Elfflame's rating:
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Satsuki (and her sister Mei)
Basic Story: Two little girls help their father settle in to their new house while their mother is in the hospital, and discover a strange new "neighbor."
Including Voices By:
Dakota and Elle Fanning (Satsuki and Mei)
Main Character: Satsuki (and her sister Mei)
Basic Story: Two little girls help their father settle in to their new house while their mother is in the hospital, and discover a strange new "neighbor."
Including Voices By:
Dakota and Elle Fanning (Satsuki and Mei)
Elfflame's rating:
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Lupin
Basic Story: The infamous Thief finds his way to a kingdom that's been printing up counterfeit currency, and discovers a mystery about the princess.
Including Voices By:
No big-name voice talent
Main Character: Lupin
Basic Story: The infamous Thief finds his way to a kingdom that's been printing up counterfeit currency, and discovers a mystery about the princess.
Including Voices By:
No big-name voice talent
Elfflame's rating:
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Ashitaka
Basic Story: Ashitaka is an outcast who is searching for a way to cure himself from a curse that has been placed on his flesh.
Including Voices By:
Billy Crudup (Ashitaka), Clare Danes (San), Gillian Anderson, Keith David, Minnie Driver, and Billy Bob Thornton
Main Character: Ashitaka
Basic Story: Ashitaka is an outcast who is searching for a way to cure himself from a curse that has been placed on his flesh.
Including Voices By:
Billy Crudup (Ashitaka), Clare Danes (San), Gillian Anderson, Keith David, Minnie Driver, and Billy Bob Thornton
Elfflame's rating:
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Nausicaä
Basic Story: The world is dying, but Nausicaä does her best to keep the wild and the poisons at bay.
Including Voices By:
Alison Lohman (Nausicaä), Mark Hamill, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Sarandon, Patrick Stewart, and Uma Thurman
Main Character: Nausicaä
Basic Story: The world is dying, but Nausicaä does her best to keep the wild and the poisons at bay.
Including Voices By:
Alison Lohman (Nausicaä), Mark Hamill, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Sarandon, Patrick Stewart, and Uma Thurman
Elfflame's rating:
Porco Rosso (1992)
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Porco Rosso
Basic Story: Porco Rosso is a famous pilot who has been cursed so that he looks like a pig. But he doesn't let that stop him from doing what needs to get done.
Including Voices By:
Michael Keaton (Porco Rosso), Carey Elwes, Brad Garrett, and David Ogden Stiers
Main Character: Porco Rosso
Basic Story: Porco Rosso is a famous pilot who has been cursed so that he looks like a pig. But he doesn't let that stop him from doing what needs to get done.
Including Voices By:
Michael Keaton (Porco Rosso), Carey Elwes, Brad Garrett, and David Ogden Stiers
Elfflame's rating:
Status: seen & owned
Main Character: Ged
Basic Story: The land is in trouble, and the wizard Ged is looking for a way to heal it. He finds it in a Prince named Arren.
Including Voices By:
Timothy Dalton (Ged), Willem Defoe, Mariska Hargitay, and Cheech Marin
Main Character: Ged
Basic Story: The land is in trouble, and the wizard Ged is looking for a way to heal it. He finds it in a Prince named Arren.
Including Voices By:
Timothy Dalton (Ged), Willem Defoe, Mariska Hargitay, and Cheech Marin
Elfflame's rating:
Status: seen & owned
Main Character:
Basic Story: Raccoons struggle to live in a human world.
Including Voices By:
Clancy Brown, Olivia d'Abo, JK Simmins, Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Main Character:
Basic Story: Raccoons struggle to live in a human world.
Including Voices By:
Clancy Brown, Olivia d'Abo, JK Simmins, Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Elfflame's rating:
Status: not seen, owned
Main Character: Shizuku
Basic Story: Shizuku discovers that the books she has checked out of the library have all been checked out by the same boy.
Including Voices By:
Jean Smart, Harold Gould, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Carey Elwes
Main Character: Shizuku
Basic Story: Shizuku discovers that the books she has checked out of the library have all been checked out by the same boy.
Including Voices By:
Jean Smart, Harold Gould, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Carey Elwes
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Status: not seen or owned
Main Character: Setsuko (and Seita)
Basic Story: Setsuko and Seita' mother is killed in an air raid they try to find a way to survive in Wartime Japan.
Including Voices By:
No big-name voice talent
Main Character: Setsuko (and Seita)
Basic Story: Setsuko and Seita' mother is killed in an air raid they try to find a way to survive in Wartime Japan.
Including Voices By:
No big-name voice talent
The Studio Ghibli films I know in order from my most liked to least-known or liked.
There are other shorts, and other Ghibli-attributed films, but for now, I don't know them well enough to put them on this list.
There are other shorts, and other Ghibli-attributed films, but for now, I don't know them well enough to put them on this list.
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