Pre- and Non-Ghibli films and works involving Miyazaki, Takahata and other Studio Ghibli staff

year 1972 - 1973

• Panda! Go Panda!

year 1978 (Hayao Miyazaki)

• Conan: The Boy in Future

year 1979 (Hayao Miyazaki)

• Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

year 1984 (Miyazaki)

• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

year 1990 (Katsuya Kondō)

• Like the Clouds, Like the Wind

year 2006 (Mamoru Hosoda, Nizo Yamamoto, Oga)

• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Other films and works produced by Studio Ghibli

year 1993 (Tomomi Mochizuki)

• Ocean Waves [TV movie]

year 1995 (Yoshifumi Kondō)

• Whisper of the Heart

year 2002 (Hiroyuki Morita)

• The Cat Returns

year 2004 (Staff)

• Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence

year 2006 (Goro Miyazaki)

• Tales from Earthsea

year 2010 (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)

• The Borrower Arrietty

year 2011 (Goro Miyazaki)

• From Up on Poppy Hill

Studio Ghibli films directed by Isao Takahata

year 1988

• Grave of the Fireflies

year 1991

• Only Yesterday

year 1994

• Pom Poko

year 1999

• My Neighbors the Yamadas

Studio Ghibli films and works directed by Hayao Miyazaki

year 1986

• Laputa : Castle in the sky

year 1988

• My neighbor Totoro

year 1989

• Kiki's Delivery Service

year 1992

• Porco Rosso

year 1995

• On Your Mark [Music film]

year 1997

• Princess Mononoke

year 2001

• Spirited Away

year 2004

• Howl's Moving Castle

year 2008

• Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

The Borrower Arrietty-Arrietty's Song(Cecile Corbel)

Cecile Corbel is the french musician who composed the music for Arrietty. She sent a CD to Studio Ghibli in 2009, and they were so impressed that she was brought on board for their adaptation of Mary Norton's "The Borrowers." Her wonderful celtic music is one of my favorite things about this film.

Grave of the Fireflies

Kanji	火垂るの墓
Rōmaji	Hotaru no Haka
Directed by	Isao Takahata
Produced by	Toru Hara
Screenplay by	Isao Takahata
Based on	Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka
Starring	Tsutomu Tatumi Ayano Shiraishi Yoshiko Shinohara Akemi Yamaguchi
Music by	Michio Mamiya
Cinematography	Nobuo Koyama
Editing by	Takeshi Seyama
Studio	Studio Ghibli
Distributed by	Toho (Japan) Bandai Visual (USA) AESir Holdings (North America) Optimum Releasing(UK) Madman Entretainment(New Zealand & Australia)
Release date(s)	April 16, 1988
Running time	88 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓 Hotaru no Haka?), also known as Tombstone for Fireflies, is a very somber film about the struggle of two children to survive during World War II. Seita and his younger sister Setsuko are left to fend for themselves when their mother passes away from severe burns inflicted by the American fire-bombing of their town. Their father is serving in the Japanese navy, but the children have not heard from him in a long time, so Seita and Setsuko try staying with a distant relative. However, Seita doesn't get along well with this relative and decides to leave, taking Setsuko with him, to live on their own.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Kanji	風の谷のナウシカ
Rōmaji	Kaze no Tani no Naushika
Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Isao Takahata
Written by	Hayao Miyazaki
Starring	Sumi Shimamoto Goro Naya Yoji Matsuda Yoshiko Sakakibara Iemasa Kayumi
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography	Koji Shiragami
Editing by	Tomoko Kida
Studio	Topcraft
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date(s)	March 4, 1984
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ Kaze no Tani no Naushika?) tells the story of Nausicaä, the princess of a small nation who lives in a world devastated by a holocaust called the "Seven Days of Fire". She tries to stop other warring nations from destroying themselves and from destroying the only means by which their world can be saved from the spread of polluted wastelands.

1. Nausicaä (Sumi Shimamoto), a princess of the Valley of the Wind, is a skillful fighter, but is also humane and peace-loving. She communicates with the giant insects (particularly the Ohmu: gigantic, armored, caterpillar insects who are the most intelligent in the Jungle).
2. Master Yupa (Goro Naya), a wise wandering warrior, is dedicated to finding the legendary "man in blue" who has the power to reunite people and nature. Nausicaä is inspired by Yupa, and she explores the Toxic Jungle to help her understand it. She travels long distances by "windriding": flying an advanced jet-assisted glider.
3. Princess Lastelle (Miina Tominaga) of Pejite, as a hostage Tolmekia.
4. Princess Kushana (Yoshiko Sakakibara) and her general, Kurotowa (Iemasa Kayumi)-Tolmekians, try to use the Warrior embryo to burn the Toxic Jungle, even though legends warn against this.
5. Asbel (Yoji Matsuda) of Pejite, the twin brother of Lastelle.

Soundtrack and download

• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Image Album (風の谷のナウシカ イメージアルバム 鳥の人) released November 25, 1983
• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Symphony (風の谷のナウシカ シンフォニー 風の伝説) released February 25, 1984
• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Soundtrack (風の谷のナウシカ サウンドトラック はるかな地へ) released March 25, 1984
• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Drama Version (風の谷のナウシカ・ドラマ編) released April 25, 1984
• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Best Collection (風の谷のナウシカ BEST) released November 25, 1986
• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Hi-tech Series (風の谷のナウシカ・ハイテックシリーズ) released October 25, 1989
• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Piano Solo Album released March 15, 1992

Ghibli Studio History

Founded in June 1985,

Directors

Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 Miyazaki Hayao^?, born January 5, 1941)

Born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, began his animation career in 1961

Isao Takahata (高畑 勲 Takahata Isao^?, born October 29, 1935)

partner Hayao Miyazaki.

Producer

Toshio Suzuki (鈴木 敏夫 Suzuki Toshio?, born August 19, 1948)

(editor at Tokuma Shoten's Animage manga magazine)

The studio was founded after the success of the 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, written and directed by Miyazaki for Topcraft and distributed by Toei Co., Ltd. (東映株式会社 Tōei Kabushiki-gaisha?).The origins of the film lie in the first two volumes of a serialized manga written by Miyazaki for publication in Animage as a way of generating interest in an anime version. Suzuki was part of the production team on the film and founded Studio Ghibli with Miyazaki, who also invited Takahata to join the new studio.

The studio has mainly produced films by Miyazaki, with the second most prolific director being Takahata (most notably with Grave of the Fireflies).

Other directors

Yoshifumi Kondō (近藤 喜文 Kondō Yoshifumi^?, March 31, 1950 - January 21, 1998)

Hiroyuki Morita (森田 宏幸 Morita Hiroyuki?, born June 26, 1964 in Fukuoka, Japan)

Gorō Miyazaki (宮崎 吾朗 Miyazaki Gorō?, born January 21, 1967)

Composer

Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守 Fujisawa Mamoru?), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲 Hisaishi Jō?, born December 6, 1950), provided the soundtrack for all of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films

About Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli, Inc. (株式会社スタジオジブリ Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Jiburi?) is a Japanese animation and film studio founded in June 1985. The company's logo features the character Totoro (a large forest spirit) from Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro. It has its headquarters in Koganei, Tokyo.[1]

Many anime features created by Studio Ghibli have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award including: Castle in the Sky in 1986; My Neighbor Totoro in 1988; and Kiki's Delivery Service in 1989. In 2002, Spirited Away won a Golden Bear and an Oscar for Best Animated Feature which remains the only film made outside the English-speaking world to have done so.