History Creator / StudioGhibli

* ''How Do You Live?'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2023) [[note]]Loosely inspired by the 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino[[/note]]

Studio Ghibli is well-known among anime fans for maintaining a ''very'' strict anti-editing policy when they license their films for international distribution – although they have no problem with foreign companies translating credits or dubbing dialogue and insert songs (in fact they encourage it because they value accessibility), they do not allow even one single frame of animation to be altered or edited out. This is due to the ''Warriors of the Wind'' fiasco, when New World Pictures heavily censored ''[[Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Nausicaä]]'' behind Miyazaki's back (more information about that can be found on the film's page). It became an issue after Creator/{{Disney}} negotiated a deal with Tokuma Shoten in 1996 that allowed Disney to distribute all but one of Ghibli's feature films.[[note]] ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' is the odd one out, as Shinchosha, publishers of the source manga, owns the rights instead of Tokuma...  and given its [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII subject]] [[TearJerker matter]], Disney probably wouldn't have wanted it anyway. The film had already been licensed to Creator/CentralParkMedia, and Creator/SentaiFilmworks would pick it up in the early 2010s after CPM's demise.[[/note]] They handed localization of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' off to Creator/{{Miramax|Films}}. [[Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany Harvey Weinstein]] immediately tried to edit ''Mononoke'' to get the movie re-rated PG. In response, Suzuki ([[UrbanLegend allegedly]]) sent him an authentic katana, attached to which was a note: [[IncrediblyLamePun "No cuts!"]]. On the one hand, this policy has allowed North America (where companies are notorious for censoring foreign things) to see these movies as they were meant to be seen; on the other hand, ''Mononoke'''s PG-13 rating almost certainly led to its being a BoxOfficeBomb and to Disney's subsequent refusal to allow ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' any release at all. Still, Disney had for the most part done rather well by the rest of Ghibli's catalogue, which are often the top-selling anime in North America for any given year due to the studio's mainstream credibility. The contract between the companies expired in 2017 and was not renewed.[[note]]Disney still handles the home video releases of Ghibli's films in Japan however, as their Japanese distributor {{Creator/Toho}} doesn't have a home video division.[[/note]]

Studio Ghibli is well-known among anime fans for maintaining a ''very'' strict anti-editing policy when they license their films for international distribution – although they have no problem with foreign companies translating credits or dubbing dialogue and insert songs (in fact they encourage it because they value accessibility), they do not allow even one single frame of animation to be altered or edited out. This is due to the ''Warriors of the Wind'' fiasco, when New World Pictures heavily censored ''[[Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Nausicaä]]'' behind Miyazaki's back (more information about that can be found on the film's page). It became an issue after Creator/{{Disney}} negotiated a deal with Tokuma Shoten in 1996 that allowed Disney to distribute all but one of Ghibli's feature films.[[note]] ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' is the odd one out, as Shinchosha, publishers of the source manga, owns the rights instead of Tokuma...  and given its [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII subject]] [[TearJerker matter]], Disney probably wouldn't have wanted it anyway. The film had already been licensed to Creator/CentralParkMedia, and Creator/SentaiFilmworks would pick it up in the early 2010s after CPM's demise.[[/note]] They handed localization of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' off to Creator/{{Miramax|Films}}. [[Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany Harvey Weinstein]] immediately tried to edit ''Mononoke'' to get the movie re-rated PG. In response, Suzuki ([[UrbanLegend allegedly]]) sent him an authentic katana, attached to which was a note: [[IncrediblyLamePun "No cuts!"]]. On the one hand, this policy has allowed North America (where companies are notorious for censoring foreign things) to see these movies as they were meant to be seen; on the other hand, ''Mononoke'''s PG-13 rating almost certainly led to its being a BoxOfficeBomb and to Disney's subsequent refusal to allow ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' any release at all. Still, Disney had for the most part done rather well by the rest of Ghibli's catalogue, which are often the top-selling anime in North America for any given year due to the studio's mainstream credibility. The contract between the companies expired in 2017 and was not renewed.

* ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1984) [[note]]Technically not produced by the studio as it was originally produced by its predecessor, Creator/{{Topcraft}} with several future Ghibli members. The film would later be retroactively added to the studio’s library and become marketed as a Ghibli film starting in the mid-to-late 90s[[/note]]

* Film/ShikiJutsu (2000), directed by Creator/HideakiAnno
* Film/{{Satorare}} (2001), directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro

Ghibli has been rated as the top brand in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, and is a household name even among non-{{otaku}}. New Ghibli films are consistently the top grossers for the year in Japanese cinemas, the Miyazaki films are well known and revered in France (they were by and large unaffected by a local backlash to UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion in TheNineties) and some films such as ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' and ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' have gained a mainstream following in North America (in part thanks to a distribution deal with Creator/{{Disney}}; more on that below). The studio tends to focus on films rather than television series, but it is frequently the "[[GatewaySeries gateway drug]]" for new {{anime}} fans. Ghibli is also like Disney in that Ghibli maintains their animation staff as full-time employees instead of the typical Japanese practice of employing freelance artists paid on a piecework basis, and Miyazaki has stated that this was intended to improve his animators' standard of living as much as the quality and consistency of their work. [[EpicMovie Their movies also tend to be much longer than the typical animated film as well]]: while most in the industry don't even crack 90 minutes due to the expense involved with making them, Ghibli's can go well over the 100-minute mark, and their films are among the longest in the history of animation, with seven of them having a runtime of over two hours.

Ghibli has been rated as the top brand in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, and is a household name even among non-{{otaku}}. New Ghibli films are consistently the top grossers for the year in Japanese cinemas, the Miyazaki films are well known and revered in France (they were by and large unaffected by a local backlash to UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion in TheNineties) and some films such as ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' and ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' have gained a mainstream following in North America (in part thanks to a distribution deal with Creator/{{Disney}}; more on that below). The studio tends to focus on films rather than television series, but it is frequently the "[[GatewaySeries gateway drug]]" for new {{anime}} fans. Ghibli is also like Disney in that Ghibli maintains their animation staff as full-time employees instead of the typical Japanese practice of employing freelance artists paid on a piecework basis, and Miyazaki has stated that this was intended to improve his animators' standard of living as much as the quality and consistency of their work. [[EpicMovie Their movies also tend to be much longer than the typical animated film as well]]: while most in the industry don't even crack 90 minutes due to the expense involved with making them, Ghibli's can go well over the 100-minute mark, and their films are among the longest in the history of animation, with eleven of their works being ranked among the 30 longest animated movies ever made (''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'' in fact currently stands as the longest to not be tied to a preexisting media franchise).

In 2019, GKIDS began the process of opening the films up to digital platforms in the US. They released almost every Studio Ghibli work onto all digital purchasing services, with the exception of ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'', which already had a (admittedly limited) digital release, in December. That year Ghibli's international distributor Wild Bunch signed a streaming deal with Creator/{{Netflix}} and began streaming the library internationally on February 2020 (with Canada getting them from June of that year). That same year, Creator/HBOMax acquired the streaming rights to its library in the US and the catalogue (sans ''Grave of the Fireflies'' as well) became available on the platform at launch in May.

Studio Ghibli is well-known among anime fans for maintaining a ''very'' strict anti-editing policy when they license their films for international distribution – although they have no problem with foreign companies translating credits or dubbing dialogue and insert songs (in fact they encourage it because they value accessibility), they do not allow even one single frame of animation to be altered or edited out. This is due to the ''Warriors of the Wind'' fiasco, when New World Pictures heavily censored ''Manga/{{Nausica|aOfTheValleyOfTheWind}}ä'' behind Miyazaki's back (more information about that can be found on the film's page). It became an issue after Creator/{{Disney}} negotiated a deal with Tokuma Shoten in 1996 that allowed Disney to distribute all but one of Ghibli's feature films.[[note]] ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' is the odd one out, as Shinchosha, publishers of the source manga, owns the rights instead of Tokuma...  and given its [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII subject]] [[TearJerker matter]], Disney probably wouldn't have wanted it anyway. The film had already been licensed to Creator/CentralParkMedia, and Creator/SentaiFilmworks would pick it up in the early 2010s after CPM's demise.[[/note]] They handed localization of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' off to Creator/{{Miramax|Films}}. [[Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany Harvey Weinstein]] immediately tried to edit ''Mononoke'' to get the movie re-rated PG. In response, Suzuki ([[UrbanLegend allegedly]]) sent him an authentic katana, attached to which was a note: [[IncrediblyLamePun "No cuts!"]]. On the one hand, this policy has allowed North America (where companies are notorious for censoring foreign things) to see these movies as they were meant to be seen; on the other hand, ''Mononoke'''s PG-13 rating almost certainly led to its being a BoxOfficeBomb and to Disney's subsequent refusal to allow ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' any release at all. Still, Disney had for the most part done rather well by the rest of Ghibli's catalogue, which are often the top-selling anime in North America for any given year due to the studio's mainstream credibility. The contract between the companies expired in 2017 and was not renewed.

* ''How Do You Live?'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2023) [[note]]Based on the 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino[[/note]]

The studio has its own [[http://atlasobscura.com/places/ghibli-museum museum]] that shows exclusive short films. The short that evolved into ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' was first shown here. It also distributes Western animated films in Japan such as the works of Michel Ocelot, Sylvan Chomet, and Aardman under the "Ghibli Museum Library" label.

Ghibli has been rated as the top brand in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, and is a household name even among non-{{otaku}}. New Ghibli films are consistently the top grossers for the year in Japanese cinemas, the Miyazaki films are well known and revered in France (they were by and large unaffected by a local backlash to UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion in TheNineties) and some films such as ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' and ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' have gained a mainstream following in North America (in part thanks to a distribution deal with Creator/{{Disney}}; more on that below). The studio tends to focus on films rather than television series, but it is frequently the "[[GatewaySeries gateway drug]]" for new {{anime}} fans. Ghibli is also like Disney in that Ghibli maintains their animation staff as full-time employees instead of the typical Japanese practice of employing freelance artists paid on a piecework basis, and Miyazaki has stated that this was intended to improve his animators' standard of living as much as the quality and consistency of their work. Their movies also tend to be much longer than the typical animated film as well: while most in the industry don't even crack 90 minutes due to the expense involved with making them, Ghibli's can go well over the 100-minute mark, and their films are among the longest in the history of animation, with eleven of their works being ranked among the 30 longest animated movies ever made (''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'' in fact currently stands as the longest to not be tied to a preexisting media franchise).

!!Live action films by Studio Kajino.

* ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'', directed by Creator/IsaoTakahata (1988) [[note]]Based on the short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka[[/note]]

The studio has its own [[http://atlasobscura.com/places/ghibli-museum museum]] that shows exclusive short films. The short that evolved into ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' was first shown here. It also distributes Western animated films in Japan such as the works of Michel Ocelot, Sylvan Chomet, and Aardman under the "Ghibli Museum Library" label.

* ''Anime/MeiAndTheKittenbus'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2002)[[note]]Direct short-form sequel to ''My Neighbor Totoro''[[/note]]

* ''Anime/TekkonKinkreet'' (Background Art)

[[https://www.ghibli.jp Studio Ghibli Inc.]] (スタジオ・ジブリ; pronounced "DJIBB-[-lee-]")[[note]] sort-of named after the Caproni Ca.309 ''Ghibli'' fighter[[/note]] was founded on June 15, 1985 by celebrated Japanese {{anime}} directors Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Creator/IsaoTakahata, along with producer Toshio Suzuki and publisher Yasuyoshi Tokuma, in the wake of Miyazaki's overwhelming success with ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''. Studio Ghibli is known for its incredibly rich and detailed animation, exacting attention to detail, SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic (mostly but not entirely by composer Joe Hisaishi), and imaginative plots (frequently involving flying scenes, a personal favourite of Miyazaki's).

[[https://www.ghibli.jp Studio Ghibli Inc.]] (スタジオ・ジブリ; pronounced "DJIBB-[-lee-]")[[note]] sort-of named after the Caproni Ca.309 ''Ghibli'' fighter[[/note]] was founded on June 15, 1985 by celebrated Japanese {{anime}} directors Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Creator/IsaoTakahata, along with producer Toshio Suzuki and publisher Yasuyoshi Tokuma, in the wake of Miyazaki's overwhelming success with ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''. Studio Ghibli is known for its incredibly rich and detailed animation, exacting attention to detail, SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic (mostly but not entirely by composer Music/JoeHisaishi), and imaginative plots (frequently involving flying scenes, a personal favourite of Miyazaki's).

*** ''My Neighbor Totoro'', ''Castle in the Sky'', ''Porco Rosso'', and ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' were dubbed into English by Creator/StreamlinePictures for screenings on Japan Airlines. Of these, ''Totoro'' was released in North America on VHS by Creator/{{Troma}} and Creator/FoxSearchlightPictures.

*** ''My Neighbor Totoro'', ''Castle in the Sky'', ''Porco Rosso'', and ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' were dubbed into English by Creator/StreamlinePictures for screenings on Japan Airlines. Of these, ''Totoro'' was released in North America on VHS by Troma and 20th Century Fox.

On November 10, 2022, Ghibli would [[https://twitter.com/jp_ghibli/status/1590720957676949504?s=61&t=PJI_G9JwtOj98HFp5ab_LA announce]] a collaboration with Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} on their Twitter account, making it the first collaboration between them and Disney since the latter's distribution of ''The Wind Rises'' back in 2013.

* ''How Do You Live?'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (TBA) [[note]]Based on the 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino[[/note]]

Studio Ghibli Inc. (スタジオ・ジブリ; pronounced "DJIBB-[-lee-]")[[note]] sort-of named after the Caproni Ca.309 ''Ghibli'' fighter[[/note]] was founded on June 15, 1985 by celebrated Japanese {{anime}} directors Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Creator/IsaoTakahata, along with producer Toshio Suzuki and publisher Yasuyoshi Tokuma, in the wake of Miyazaki's overwhelming success with ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''. Studio Ghibli is known for its incredibly rich and detailed animation, exacting attention to detail, SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic (mostly but not entirely by composer Music/JoeHisaishi), and imaginative plots (frequently involving flying scenes, a personal favourite of Miyazaki's).

In 2019, GKIDS began the process of opening the films up to digital platforms. They released almost every Studio Ghibli work onto all digital purchasing services, with the exception of ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'', which already had a (admittedly limited) digital release, in December. That year they also signed streaming deals. Creator/{{Netflix}} owns the rights in most of the world and began streaming them in February 2020 but Creator/WarnerBrothers has the rights in the USA and the catalogue (sans ''Grave of the Fireflies'' as well) became available on the Creator/HBOMax platform at launch in May.

On 2017, Toshio Suzuki would announce that a park themed around the films would open. The park, titled [[https://ghibli-park.jp/en/ Ghibli Park]], is currently planned to open on November 1st, 2022.

** ''Castle in the Sky'' was distributed by Creator/ToeiCompany and ''Totoro'' was distributed by Creator/{{Toho}}. When ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' was released, Toei distributed the film once again. By 1991, most of Ghibli's films would be distributed by Toho[[note]]The only exceptions were ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas and the pro-shot of the kabuki stage adaptation of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', both of which were distributed by Creator/{{Shochiku}}, which also co-produced trhe latter.[[/note]], which has been a member of Ghibli's production commitees since 2002. So, all of the Ghibli films in Japan have been distributed by Toho in their theatrical releases. Toho also re-released ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' in Japanese cinemas in 2020, after being distributed by Toei in 1984.

Studio Ghibli Inc. (スタジオ・ジブリ; [[NoPronunciationGuide pronounced]] "DJIBB-[-lee-]")[[note]] sort-of named after the Caproni Ca.309 ''Ghibli'' fighter[[/note]] was founded on June 15, 1985 by celebrated Japanese {{anime}} directors Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Creator/IsaoTakahata, along with producer Toshio Suzuki and publisher Yasuyoshi Tokuma, in the wake of Miyazaki's overwhelming success with ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''. Studio Ghibli is known for its incredibly rich and detailed animation, exacting attention to detail, SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic (mostly but not entirely by composer Music/JoeHisaishi), and imaginative plots (frequently involving flying scenes, a personal favourite of Miyazaki's).