Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Your Name. (2016), Mononoke-hime (1997), Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004), Tonari no Totoro (1988), Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki (2012), Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Anime movies.
Storyline: A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she's telling the story, Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn in. The key was given to her as a teenager by a painter and revolutionary that she helped to escape the police. She becomes an actress because it will make it possible to track him down, and she spends the next several decades acting out that search in various genres and eras.
Plot Keywords: key, in medias res, movie star, lost love, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of a young witch, named Kiki who is now 13 years old. But she is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a talking cat named Jiji by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly European seaside village she's chosen as her new home.
Plot Keywords: anime, based on book, black cat, teenage girl, flying, bakery, magic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Goku and Vegeta encounter Broly, a Saiyan warrior unlike any fighter they've faced before.
Plot Keywords: transformation, profanity, swearing, power, anime, action hero, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Journeyman ninja by name of Jubei stumbles upon a plague, an evil clan of demons, a national crisis, and a beautiful ninja girl.
Plot Keywords: martial arts, immortality, arm cut off, stabbed in the eye, female warrior, female nudity, nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kazuma's party is suddenly alerted by an outrageous letter delivered by Yunyun. The letter requested that they come to the Crimson Demon Clan's village. The bunch head on over and make use of their time there, but trouble arises when an enemy general arrives!
Plot Keywords: party, anime ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An unscrupulous music executive and his flunky kidnap an alien, blue-skinned techno band, rob them of their identities, pass them off as human, and foist them on an unsuspecting public on Earth. After their arrival and their impact on the human population, the members of the band try to piece back their identities, escape from the clutches of the evil music executive, and return to their own world.
Plot Keywords: band, concert, record company, space travel, spaceship, anime, outer space ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Early 1930's era Italy air pirates, bounty hunters and high fliers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso. A former Ace, he now makes a living flying contract jobs, such as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival in the air and in catching the affections of women, provides a constant challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious, action packed finale.
Plot Keywords: hero, mechanic, mission, rescue, transformation, villain, airplane ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christmas in Tokyo, Japan. Three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum. While foraging through some trash, they find an abandoned newborn. Hana, the transvestite with delusions of being a mother, convinces the others to keep it overnight. The next day, using a key found with the baby, they start tracking down the parents, with many adventures along the way.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: family relationships, homeless, baby, tokyo japan, transgender, alcoholism, dark comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan's plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo.—Official site
Plot Keywords: earthquake, tuberculosis, 1930s, dream sequence, world war two, technology, wind ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A 12-year-old girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with long, flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect.
Plot Keywords: rowboat, character name in title, orphan, mansion, grandmother, diary, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.
Plot Keywords: two word title, female protagonist, flashback, folk music, childhood memory, anime, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.
Plot Keywords: lucid dream, virtual reality, movie theatre, giant robot, butterfly, flashback, butterfly collection ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The latest feature film from award-winning Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children): When Kyuta, a young orphan living on the streets of Shibuya, stumbles into a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by Kumatetsu, a gruff, rough-around-the-edges warrior beast who's been searching for the perfect apprentice. Despite their constant bickering, Kyuta and Kumatetsu begin training together and slowly form a bond as surrogate father and son. But when a deep darkness threatens to throw the human and beast worlds into chaos, the strong bond between this unlikely family will be put to ultimate test-a final showdown that will only be won if the two can finally work together using all of their combined strength and courage.
Plot Keywords: orphan, coming of age, father figure, fatherhood, training, beast, father son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is many thousand years in the future. Vampires once ruled the night but have seen their numbers reduced by fearless bounty hunters. One such hunter is D, the halfbreed son of a human mother and vampire father. When a girl from a rich family is taken from her home by the vampire Meier Link, her father contracts both D and the Markus brothers (a rival group of hunters) to race to retrieve her. As the heroes fight their way through Meier's hired guards, they begin to suspect that the girl may have gone with him willingly.
Plot Keywords: rescue, destruction, death, murder, swordsman, sword, giant creature ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The son of a sailor, 5-year-old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish. The daughter of a masterful wizard and a sea goddess, Ponyo uses her father's magic to transform herself into a young girl and quickly falls in love with Sosuke, but the use of such powerful sorcery causes a dangerous imbalance in the world. As the moon steadily draws nearer to the earth and Ponyo's father sends the ocean's mighty waves to find his daughter, the two children embark on an adventure of a lifetime to save the world and fulfill Ponyo's dreams of becoming human.
Plot Keywords: magical power, overprotective father, family relationships, mother daughter relationship, retirement home, small town, tsunami ...
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