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List of Studio Ghibli works

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This Wikipedia entry is a comprehensive catalog of all officially recognized works by Studio Ghibli, covering theatrical animated features, short films, television series, OVAs, commercials, video games, and exclusive content created for the Ghibli Museum, spanning over four decades of the studio's animation output.

Key moments

  • 1984-03-11Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind released, regarded as Ghibli's foundational work despite being produced before the studio's official founding
  • 1986-08-02Castle in the Sky (Laputa) released
  • 1988My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies released on the same day
  • 1997-07-12Princess Mononoke launched, a major commercial and critical hit
  • 2001-07-20Spirited Away released, achieving unprecedented domestic box office records in Japan
  • 2020-12-30Earwig and the Witch released, Studio Ghibli's first fully computer-animated feature
  • 2023-07-14The Boy and the Heron, the latest theatrical animated feature, released

Broad Coverage of Diverse Creative Output

Unlike standard brand or company pages, this list includes not only blockbuster theatrical films but also niche content such as museum-exclusive short animations, TV commercials, and international co-productions like 2016's The Red Turtle, offering a full view of Studio Ghibli's range beyond its most famous works.

Inclusion of Pre-Foundation Works

The list incorporates Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, produced by Topcraft prior to Studio Ghibli's official establishment. This inclusion highlights the studio's recognition of the thematic and creative continuity between this early project and its later productions.

Contextualized Performance Data

The entry includes box office earnings and viewership statistics for major films, allowing readers to understand the commercial success and cultural impact of each title, such as the record-breaking domestic performance of Spirited Away that remains one of Japan's highest-grossing films.

This is a list of works (films, television, shorts etc.) by the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli.

Works

Feature films

Television films

Television series

Short films

These are short films, including those created for television, theatrical release, and the Ghibli Museum. Original video animation releases and music videos (theatrical and television) are also listed in this section.

Commercials

Video games

Stage productions

Other works

The works listed here consist of works that do not fall into the above categories. All of these films have been released on DVD or Blu-ray in Japan as part of the Ghibli Gakujutsu Library.

Exhibitions

A selection of layout designs for animated productions was exhibited in the Studio Ghibli Layout Designs: Understanding the Secrets of Takahata and Miyazaki Animation exhibition tour, which started in the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (July 28, 2008 to September 28, 2008) and subsequently travelled to different museums throughout Japan and Asia, concluding its tour of Japan in the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (October 12, 2013 to January 26, 2014) and its tour of Asia in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (May 14, 2014 to August 31, 2014). Between October 4, 2014, and March 1, 2015, the layout designs were exhibited at Art Ludique in Paris. The exhibition catalogues contain annotated reproductions of the displayed artwork.[5][6][7][8]

Related works

These works were not created by Studio Ghibli, but were produced by a variety of studios and people who went on to form or join Studio Ghibli. This includes members of Topcraft that went on to create Studio Ghibli in 1985; works produced by Toei Animation, TMS Entertainment, Nippon Animation, or other studios and featuring involvement by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, or other Ghibli staffers. The list also includes works created in cooperation with Studio Ghibli.

Pre-Ghibli

Cooperative works

Distributive works

These Western animated films (plus one Japanese film) have been distributed by Studio Ghibli, and now through their label, Ghibli Museum Library.

Contributive works

Studio Ghibli has made contributions to the following anime series and movies:

Significant achievements

  • The highest-grossing film of the year in Japan
  • 1989: Kiki's Delivery Service
  • 1991: Only Yesterday
  • 1992: Porco Rosso
  • 1994: Pom Poko
  • 1995: Whisper of the Heart (also the first Japanese film in Dolby Digital)
  • 2001: Spirited Away
  • 2008: Ponyo[11]
  • 2010: The Secret World of Arrietty[12]
  • 2013: The Wind Rises[13]
  • The first Studio Ghibli film to use computer graphics: Pom Poko
  • The first Miyazaki feature to use computer graphics, and the first Studio Ghibli film to use digital coloring; the first animated feature in Japan's history to gross more than 10 billion yen at the box office and the first animated film ever to win a National Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year: Princess Mononoke
  • The first Studio Ghibli film to be shot using a 100% digital process: My Neighbors the Yamadas
  • The first Miyazaki feature to be shot using a 100% digital process; the first film to gross $200 million worldwide before opening in North America; the film to finally overtake Titanic at the Japanese box office, becoming the top-grossing film in the history of Japanese cinema: Spirited Away
  • The first anime and traditionally animated winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Spirited Away at the 75th Academy Awards. They would later win this award for a second time with The Boy and the Heron at the 96th Academy Awards, marking the second time a traditionally animated film won the award.

References

  1. Studio Ghibli to release Miyazaki, Takahata films in Summer 2013 The Asahi Shimbun, December 21, 2012, retrieved January 3, 2013^
  2. Ghibli Adapts Joan G. Robinson's When Marnie Was There Novel Into Anime Anime News Network, December 12, 2013, retrieved May 22, 2015^
  3. The Red Turtle: A film by Michael Dudok De Wit Sony Pictures Classics, retrieved August 18, 2017^
  4. Egan Loo. Ghibli Animates Star Wars Short 'Zen – Grogu and Dust Bunnies' Anime News Network, retrieved 12 November 2022^
  5. スタジオジブリ・レイアウト展 : 高畑・宮崎アニメの秘密がわかる Nippon Television Corporation, Yomiuri Shimbun publishing, retrieved December 27, 2013^
  6. スタジオジブリ・レイアウト展 : 高畑・宮崎アニメの秘密がわかる Hong Kong Heritage Museum, retrieved July 17, 2014^
  7. スタジオジブリ・レイアウト展 : 高畑・宮崎アニメの秘密がわかる Art Ludique – The Museum, retrieved October 28, 2014^
  8. スタジオジブリ・レイアウト展 : 高畑・宮崎アニメの秘密がわかる National Diet Library, retrieved 27 December 2013^
  9. ghibli.jp retrieved 2016-12-06^
  10. Michael Dudok De Wit Is Directing A Feature Co-Produced By Studio Ghibli Cartoon Brew, May 15, 2012, retrieved January 27, 2013^
  11. Japan Yearly Box Office 2008 Box Office Mojo, retrieved 18 July 2018^
  12. 歴代興収ベスト100 CINEMAランキング通信, Kogyo Tsushinsha, retrieved 6 June 2020^
  13. Kevin Ma. The Wind Rises tops 2013 Japan B.O. Film Business Asia, 1 January 2014, retrieved 5 January 2014^