My Neighbor Totoro is that rare delight, a family film that appeals to children and adults alike. While their mother is in the hospital, 10-year-old Satsuki and 4-year-old Mei move into an old-fashioned house in the country with their professor father. At the foot of an enormous camphor tree, Mei discovers the nest of King Totoro, a giant forest spirit who resembles an enormous bunny ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century FoxStarring: Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi ShimamotoDirected By: Hayao Miyazaki
Claire Danes (THE MOD SQUAD), Minnie Driver (GOOD WILL HUNTING), and Billy Bob Thornton (ARMAGEDDON, SLING BLADE) head a cast of hot Hollywood stars who lend their talents to this exquisitely animated, overwhelmingly acclaimed adventure epic! Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka (Billy Crudup -- WITHOUT LIMITS) sets out for the forests of the west in search of the cure ...
Manufacturer: MiramaxStarring: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko NishimuraDirected By: Hayao Miyazaki
Manufacturer: Family Home EntStarring: Karen Bernstein, Jill Frappier, Jennifer Darling, Melissa Fahn, Kyôko HikamiDirected By: Tony Oliver
Hayao Miyazaki gained widespread attention in Japan for his complex ecological manga series, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982), which he adapted for the screen two years later. One thousand years after a war devastated much of the Earth, humanity clings to existence at the fringes of a vast, polluted forest inhabited by monstrous insects. Only Nausicaä, the princess of the tiny ...
Manufacturer: New World PicturesStarring: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda, Gorô Naya, Ichirô NagaiDirected By: Hayao Miyazaki
The deck really seems stacked against Godai when Mitaka, the dashing coach at the nearby tennis club, proposes to Kyoko. He's not only handsome and suave, he's rich, with a degree from a top university, a luxurious condo, and a convertible sports car. How can the perpetually broke and socially maladroit Godai ever hope to compete with him? Fortunately, there's a major chink in Mitaka's armor: he ...
Manufacturer: Viz VideoStarring: Ellen Kennedy, Jason Gray-Stanford, Daphne Goldrick, Gerard Plunkett, Janyse JaudDirected By: Tomomi Mochizuki, Kazuo Yamazaki
Shacking Up - Fate leaves Godai sharing an apartment with an attractive woman, and everyone - including Kyoko - assumes the worst. Will Kyoko let him return to his old room at Maison Ikkoku?
Manufacturer: Central Park MediaStarring: Kappei Yamaguchi, Sumi Shimamoto, Shôzô Îzuka, Kazue Komiya, Norio WakamotoDirected By: Yasuhiro Imagawa
Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro) achieved his first international hit with this delightful 1979 adventure yarn. Quick-paced, high-spirited, and loaded with wit, Cagliostro is a dandy throwback to the caper pictures of the '60s. International man of mystery Lupin III stumbles back into the picturesque European duchy of Cagliostro with his faithful and ...
Manufacturer: Streamline PicturesStarring: Bob Bergen, Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Makio InoueDirected By: Hayao Miyazaki
Manufacturer: Family Home EntStarring: Karen Bernstein, Jill Frappier, Sumi Shimamoto, Melissa Fahn, Kyôko HikamiDirected By: Tony Oliver
