The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Feature Film: 7 July 2006 / 98 minutes

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

Art Director: Nizo Yamamoto

Background Artist: Kazuo Oga

This theatrical production by Madhouse of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女 Toki o Kakeru Shoujo (Tokikake)?) is one of eight film or TV adaptations (and the only animated one) based on the 1967 manga by Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井 康隆 Tsutsui Yasutaka?) (Paprika). The film premiered on Tanabata, 7 July 2006 in Japan and on 19 November 2006 in North America at the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema.

The film has many of the crowd-pleasing qualities of a Studio Ghibli film. Not surprising, given that it was directed by Mamoru Hosoda, the director originally selected to helm Howl's Moving Castle. It also features the work of two current or former long-time Ghibli veterans, with art direction by Nizo Yamamoto, and background art in part by Kazuo Oga (freelancing for Ogura Workshop).

The story centers on 17-year-old Makoto Konno, who one day accidentally gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time. She immediately does what any teenager would do, using this power for simple things like improving her grades and preventing mishaps for herself and her friends. However, she soon realizes that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and definitely has unintended consequences.

Like the Clouds, Like the Wind

雲のように 風のように (Kumo no yō ni Kaze no yō ni)
Genre	Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Novel
Kōkyū Shōsetsu
Written by	Ken'ichi Sakemi
Published by	Shinchosha
Published	March 5, 1989
Anime film
Directed by	Hisayuki Toriumi
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Released	March 21, 1990
Runtime	80 minutes

Story

Ginga is a simple—yet energetic—country girl, living with her father far from the capital city of the empire in ancient China. When she learns of an opportunity to become a concubine of the young new Emperor, with the possibility of becoming his head wife in charge of all of the other wives, Ginga convinces her father to let her go. Once there, she meets all of the other potential head wives, each of whom have various reasons for being there. All of them must learn to read and write, learn the history of their country, and learn the proper mannerisms for being in the royal court.

Ginga's enthusiasm tends to get her in trouble more often than not, but it works to her advantage when they learn that the former emperor's head wife, who is not the mother of the current emperor, is plotting treachery against the new emperor, and that a rebellion is headed toward the capital.

Theme song

Kumo no yō ni Kaze no yō ni

Lyrics: Anju Mana

Composed by: Tetsurō Kugizaki

Arranged by: Etsuko Yamakawa

Vocals: Ryōko Sano

Lupin III-The Castle of Cagliostro

Kanji	ルパン三世 カリオストロの城
Rōmaji	Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro
Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Tetsuo Katayama
Screenplay by	Haruya Yamazaki Hayao Miyazaki
Based on	Lupin III by Monkey Punch
Starring	Yasuo Yamada Kiyoshi Kobayashi Makio Inoue Eiko Masuyama Goro Naya Sumi Shimamoto Tarō Ishida
Music by	Yuji Ohno
Cinematography	Hirokata Takahashi
Editing by	Mitsutoshi Tsurubuchi
Studio	Tokyo Movie Shinsha Topcraft
Distributed by	Toho
Release date(s)	December 15, 1979
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Pom Poko

Directed by	Isao Takahata
Produced by	Toshio Suzuki Yasuyoshi Tokuma Hayao Miyazaki
Screenplay by	Isao Takahata
Story by	Hayao Miyazaki
Starring	Kokontei Shinchou Makoto Nonomura Yuriko Ishida
Editing by	Takeshi Seyama
Studio	Studio Ghibli
Distributed by	Toho
Release date(s)	July 16, 1994
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Pom Poko (平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko?) As civilisation draws ever nearer to their idyllic forest home, a group of mischievous Japanese tanuki (raccoon dogs - Nyctereutes procyonoides) try to scare humans away. But they soon discover that humans are not their only rivals in the struggle for their age-old territory.

Released in 1994 as the Japanese economy slumped, but looking back to the sixties construction boom in Tokyo’s Tama Hills, Pom Poko questions the money-grabbing ethics of yuppie Japan, and mourns the loss of the countryside. Drawing on Japanese myths and legends, writer and director Isao Takahata presents a satirical view of woodland spirits using every available magical ruse to take on modern developers: including transformations, sabotage and trickery.

Pom Poko is a unique window into Japanese folklore, a comedy of modern failings, and an elegiac tale of unlikely heroes fighting insurmountable odds.

Ocean Waves (film)

海がきこえる (Umi ga Kikoeru)
Genre	Drama, Romance, School life
Novel
Written by	Saeko Himuro
Illustrated by	Katsuya Kondō
Published by	Tokuma Shoten
Published	1993
TV film anime
Directed by	Tomomi Mochizuki
Produced by	Isao Takahata Hideo Ogata
Music by	Shigeru Nagata
Studio	Studio Ghibli
Licensed by	Optimum Releasing
Network	NTV
Released	May 5, 1993
Runtime	72 minutes
Novel
I Can Hear the Sea II: Because There Is Love
Written by	Saeko Himuro
Illustrated by	Katsuya Kondō
Published by	Tokuma Shoten
Published	1995

Ocean Waves (海がきこえる Umi ga Kikoeru?) is the official English title (from Japan) for a film more commonly known as I Can Hear the Sea (the literal meaning of the Japanese title). Set in Kochi (on the island of Shikoku), Umi tells the story of a love triangle that develops between two good friends and the new girl in school who transferred from Tokyo. The new girl, Rikako, is at first arrogant and distant, but eventually makes friends.

Porco Rosso

Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Toshio Suzuki
Written by	Hayao Miyazaki
Starring	Shūichirō Moriyama Tokiko Kato Akemi Okamura Akio Ōtsuka
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography	Atsushi Okui
Editing by	Takeshi Seyama Hayao Miyazaki
Distributed by	Toho (Japan) Walt Disney Pictures(US)
Release date(s)	July 18, 1992
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Porco Rosso (紅の豚 Kurenai no Buta?, literally "The Crimson Pig") was first planned as a 30-45 minutes in-flight movie on Japan Airlines. It's been described as "a movie which tired businessmen on international flights can enjoy even with their minds dulled due to lack of oxygen." As Miyazaki's imagination took off, it became a feature-length movie about an Italian Air Force pilot who left the service due to the rise of fascism. He became a bounty hunter, assuming the name "Porco Rosso."

Soundtrack

1. "The Wind of Time (When a Human Can Be a Human)" – 2:50
2. "MAMMAIUTO" – 1:21
3. "Addio!" – 0:37
4. "The Bygone Days" – 2:16
5. "A Sepia-Coloured Picture" – 0:47
6. "Serbia March" – 1:03
7. "Flying Boatmen" – 2:36
8. "Doom (Cloud Trap)" – 1:23
9. "Porco e Bella" – 1:06
10. "Fio-Seventeen" – 2:04
11. "The Women of Piccolo" – 2:04
12. "Friend" – 3:04
13. "Partnership" – 2:28
14. "Madness (Flight)" – 2:39
15. "To the Adriatic Sea" – 1:50
16. "In Search of the Distant Era" – 2:18
17. "Love at First Sight in the Wildness" – 1:11
18. "At the End of Summer" – 1:26
19. "Lost Spirit" – 4:11
20. "Dog Fight" – 2:10
21. "Porco e Bella (Ending)" – 2:35
22. "The Time of Cherries" (sung by Tokiko Kato) – 2:52
23. "Once in a While, Talk of the Old Days" (composition, lyrics, singing by Tokiko Kato, arrangement by Yoko Kanno, Junichiro Ohkuchi) – 3:56

Laputa-Castle in the Sky

Kanji	天空の城ラピュタ
Rōmaji	Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta
Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Isao Takahata
Written by	Hayao Miyazaki
Starring	Keiko Yokozawa Mayumi Tanaka Kotoe Hatsui Minori Terada
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography	Hirokata Takahashi
Editing by	Hayao Miyazaki Takeshi Seyama Yoshihiro Kasahara
Studio	Studio Ghibli
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date(s)	August 2, 1986
Running time	126 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Laputa: Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta?) is an adventure movie. Pazu rescues an unconscious girl descending from the night sky with a glowing pendant around her neck. He helps the girl, Sheeta, to escape from the air pirates and the military who are obsessed with Laputa, a legendary kingdom on a floating island in the sky with which Sheeta is suspected of being connected.

With an adventurous boy as the main character, Miyazaki tells "a story that involves discoveries and wonderful encounters...a story that carries a message of hope." The production of Laputa also led to the establishment of Studio Ghibli in 1985.

Initially, this film had a brief theatrical screening in America in 1989. Since then, Disney has brought the film to the United States and to the rest of the world with a soundtrack freshly rescored by Joe Hisaishi, who composed the original, and performed by a full symphony orchestra.

Soundtrack and Download

1. "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky" – 2:27
2. "Morning in Slag Ravine" – 3:04
3. "A Fun Brawl (Pursuit)" – 4:27
4. "Memories of Gondoa" – 2:46
5. "Discouraged Pazu" – 1:46
6. "Robot Soldier (Resurrection/Rescue)" – 2:34
7. "Carrying You" – 2:02 (Chorus: Suginami Children's Choir)
8. "Sheeta's Decision" – 2:05
9. "On the Tiger Moth" – 2:32
10. "An Omen to Ruin" – 2:18
11. "The Sea of Cloud Under the Moonlight" – 2:33
12. "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" – 4:36
13. "The Collapse of Laputa" – 2:00 (Chorus: Suginami Children's Choir)
14. "Carrying You" – 4:07 (sung by Azumi Inoue)

Download links for movie

Laputa - Castle in the sky. RMVB

Spirited Away

Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Toshio Suzuki
Screenplay by	Hayao Miyazaki
Story by	Hayao Miyazaki
Starring	Rumi Hiiragi Miyu Irino Mari Natsuki Bunta Sugawara
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography	Atsushi Okui
Editing by	Takeshi Seyama
Studio	Studio Ghibli
Distributed by	Japan: Toho International: Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	July 27, 2001
Running time	125 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	¥1.9 billion (US$19 million)[1]
Box office	¥27,492,509,500 ($274,925,095)

"For the people who used to be 10 years old,

and the people who are going to be 10 years old."

--Hayao Miyazaki

Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi?) is a fantasy adventure with a ten year-old girl, which starts in everyday Japan but goes somewhere very different. For young Chihiro and her family, a mysterious tunnel and haunted town lead to the Land of Spirits, inhabited by gods and monsters and ruled by the greedy witch Yu-baba. Chihiro's parents are transformed into pigs; to rescue them, she must surrender her name and serve in this world. Luckily she finds friends and allies, including the handsome but mysterious boy Haku. Initially sulky and listless, Chihiro (or Sen, as she's now called) finds inner strengths and establishes an identity in this strange world. But can she win back her name and return home?

Soundtrack and Download

	Track	Composer	Duration
1	One Summer's Day (あの夏へ Ano Natsu e?)	Joe Hisaishi (久石譲?)	3:09
2	A Road to Somewhere (とおり道 Toori Michi?)		2:07
3	The Empty Restaurant (誰もいない料理店 Dare mo Inai Ryōriten?)		3:15
4	Nighttime Coming (夜来る Yoru Kuru?)		2:00
5	The Dragon Boy (竜の少年 Ryū no Shōnen?)		2:12
6	Sootballs (ボイラー虫 Boirā Mushi?)		2:33
7	Procession of the Spirits (神さま達 Kamisama-tachi?)		3:00
8	Yubaba (湯婆婆?)		3:30
9	Bathhouse Morning (湯屋の朝 Yuya no Asa?)		2:02
10	Day of the River (あの日の川 Ano Hi no Kawa?)		3:13
11	It's Hard Work (仕事はつらいぜ Shigoto wa Tsuraize?)		2:26
12	The Stink Spirit (おクサレ神 Okusaregami?)		4:01
13	Sen's Courage (千の勇気 Sen no Yūki?)		2:45
14	The Bottomless Pit (底なし穴 Sokonashi Ana?)		1:18
15	Kaonashi (No Face) (カオナシ Kaonashi?)		3:47
16	The Sixth Station (6番目の駅 Roku Banme no Eki?)		3:38
17	Yubaba's Panic (湯婆婆狂乱 Yubaba Kyōran?)		1:38
18	The House at Swamp Bottom (沼の底の家 Numa no Soko no Ie?)		1:29
19	Reprise (ふたたび Futatabi?)		4:53
20	The Return (帰る日 Kaeru Hi?)		3:20
21	Always With Me (いつも何度でも Itsumo Nando demo?)	Youmi Kimura (木村弓?)	3:35

Image album track listing

1. Ano Hi no Kawa e (あの日の川へ lit. To that Days' River^?) – Umi (3:54)
2. Yoru ga Kuru (夜が来る lit. Night is Coming^?) – Joe Hisaishi (4:25)
3. Kamigami-sama (神々さま lit. Gods^?) – Shizuru Otaka (3:55)
4. Yuya (油屋 lit. Bathhouse^?) – Tsunehiko Kamijō (3:56)
5. Fushigi no Kuni no Jyūnin (不思議の国の住人 lit. The People in Wonderland^?) – Joe Hisaishi (3:20)
6. Samishii samishii (さみしいさみしい lit. Lonely lonely^?) – Monsieur Kamayatsu (3:41)
7. Solitude (ソリチュード Sorichūdo^?) – Rieko Suzuki and Hiroshi Kondo (3:49)
8. Umi (海 lit. The Sea^?) – Joe Hisaishi (3:22)
9. Shiroi Ryū (白い竜 lit. White Dragon^?) – Rikki (3:33)
10. Chihiro no Waltz (千尋のワルツ Chihiro no Warutsu^?, Chihiro's Waltz) – Joe Hisaishi (3:20)