Direction: Hayao Miyazaki
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 30
Spirited Away
2001 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis 10-year old Chihiro becomes trapped in a forbidden world of gods and magic when her parents take her to investigate the other side of the tunnel. In order to survive, Chihiro must work and make herself useful, and find within...
8.1
109K votes
8.1
109K votes
Princess Mononoke
1997 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis A prince is infected with an incurable disease by a possessed boar/god. He is to die unless he can find a cure to rid the curse from his body. It seems that his only hope is to travel to the...
8.0
67K votes
8.0
67K votes
Howl's Moving Castle
2004 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Young Sophie is eighteen, and works tirelessly every day making hats in her deased father’s hat shop. One day, on a rare outing to town, Sophie accidentally encounters the Wizard Howl. Howl is dashingly handsome, yet as wizards go, he’s...
7.8
57K votes
7.8
57K votes
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called...
7.7
46K votes
7.7
46K votes
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
1984 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Centuries after war has devastated the earth, Princess Nausicaa leads the people of the Valley of the Wind. Feuding clans fight with planes and tanks as well as swords in a world that is both primitive and futuristic. In addition...
7.6
20K votes
7.6
20K votes
Looking for a Home (S)
2006 · Movie · 12 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Yado-Sagashi follows a young girl named Fuki as she embarks on a journey to find a new home.
7.5
30 votes
7.5
30 votes
Castle in the Sky
1986 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Laputa, a floating castle in the sky, was created by a mysterious race of people who long ago disappeared from the planet. A group of ruthless pirates suspect it has treasures and riches beyond imagination. The government wants to find...
7.5
15K votes
7.5
15K votes
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
2008 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea tells the story of 5-year-old Sosuke, and Ponyo, a Princess Goldfish who wants only to become human.
7.4
22K votes
7.4
22K votes
Porco Rosso
1992 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis In Early 1930's era Italy, air pirates, bounty hunters and high flyers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso, a man cursed with the head of a pig after watching...
7.4
25K votes
7.4
25K votes
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess (S)
2010 · Movie · 12 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis In a lonesome water mill deep in a forest of briers and brambles lives a witch named Baba Yaga. There the witch keeps her servant the Egg Princess confined and forces the tiny egg-girl to do all the hard daily...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
The Wind Rises
2013 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of...
7.2
14K votes
7.2
14K votes
Future Boy Conan (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki · Keiji Hayakawa · Isao Takahata
Synopsis The story takes place in the 21st century, 20 years after World War 3. The world as we know it has been destroyed, and 12 year old Conan lives on an island with his grandfather, believing they are the only...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Sherlock Hound: The Kidnapping Case of Mrs. Hudson / The Air Battle Over Dover!
1986 · Movie · 46 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Second recopilatory movie of "Sherlock Hound".
7.2
63 votes
7.2
63 votes
Mon Mon the Water Spider (S)
2006 · Movie · 15 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Animated short film produced by Studio Ghibli, it can be seen at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. It is based in part on "Boro, the Caterpillar", a story idea which Hayao Miyazaki considered working on prior to the start...
7.1
92 votes
7.1
92 votes
Sherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea
1984 · Movie · 46 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis First recopilatory movie of the anime "Sherlock Hound".
7.1
48 votes
7.1
48 votes
Lupin III's Greatest Capers
1980 · Movie · 65 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Lupin III: Greatest Capers is a compilation of two episodes from the second Lupin III television series that was released on video from Streamline Pictures. The episodes included were: * Albatross: Wings of Death (episode 145) [original title: Shi no...
7.1
129 votes
7.1
129 votes
Kiki's Delivery Service
1989 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Kiki, a young witch-in-training, has reached the age of 13. According to tradition, all witches of that age must leave home for one year, so that they can learn how to live on their own. Kiki, along with her talking...
7.1
11K votes
7.1
11K votes
Mei and the Kittenbus (S)
2002 · Movie · 13 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis It tells the story of Mei and her friend the kittenbus (the child of the original catbus from My Neighbor Totoro). Mei is just small enough to ride in the kittenbus, which is only big enough to stir up dust...
7.0
627 votes
7.0
627 votes
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
1979 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis Reknowned international thief Lupin III comes to the small European duchy of Cagliostro to investigate some excellently-forged money and stumbles across a national conspiracy going back some hundreds of years. Lupin and his friends must rescue the beautiful Clarice from...
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K votes
The Boy and the Heron
2023 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother....
7.0
9K votes
7.0
9K votes