17 Japanese animation that is worth a look around

Makoto Shinkai

Makoto Shinkai - animator, director and screenwriter. He prefers to work alone, doing minimal resources. His first cartoons were drawn it without anyone's help on a home computer. For high-quality and detailed picture drawn Cinco repeatedly called "second Miyazaki", but the artist himself is too modest to accept this.

Your name

• Fantasy, Drama, Romance.
• Japan, in 2016.
• Duration: 110 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

Mizuho - a high school student from a small town lost in the mountains. She wants to grow up quickly and move into a bustling metropolis. Taki - a regular guy who lives in the center of Tokyo. They never knew and never met, but an unusual bond between them still exists. In the dream, Taki and Mizuho switch bodies and acquire the ability to live each other's lives. First, they perceive it as a fun game, but eventually everything becomes much more difficult.

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Garden of Words

• Melodrama.
• Japan, in 2013.
• Duration: 46 min.
• IMDb: 7,6.

Takao wants to dedicate his life to the production of shoes, so runs regularly from the boring school classes in the Japanese garden to quietly sketching. One day, he meets a mysterious woman Yukio, who goes for a walk in the rain only time. Takao falls in love with her, but the rainy season is coming to an end, and it is unknown whether or not they see each other ever again.

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Children Who Chase Lost Voices

• Drama, adventure.
• Japan, in 2011.
• Duration: 116 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

Asuna girl lives in a small Japanese village. She has very few friends, so most of the evenings she spends on the hillside, listening to an old radio with the help of a crystal ball. Once on the way to the hill at the girl he attacked a strange creature, which it saves the boy Xiong. After this incident, between friendships, but suddenly Xiong died tragically, and Asuna off on a perilous journey.

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5 Centimeters Per Second

• Drama, Romance.
• Japan, 2007.
• Duration: 63 min.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Three beautiful and sad story of love, time and distance, organically linked to one well-drawn cartoon with an amazing soundtrack. It they are talking about life and growing up protagonist Takaki Tono and his attempts to maintain distance relationships.

Mamoru Hosoda

Mamoru Hosoda - director and screenwriter of animated films. His first film he took in high school, while still a boy. In many interviews, Hosoda said that the basis and stimulus for new scripts of his films is often a life experience. That's why the director so many works devoted to the family, the process of growing up and becoming a person.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

• Fiction, drama, romance, comedy.
• Japan 2006.
• Duration: 98 min.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Having survived a terrible accident, a seventeen year old Makoto suddenly discovers that he is the ability to time travel. Inspired by the extraordinary gift, she starts struggling to establish their lives, repeatedly returning to the past to fix anything. But soon it turns out that time travel - it is not no gift, but just a special effect device, which belongs to the boy Chiaki, who came from the future.

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child beast

• Fantasy, adventure.
• Japan, in 2015.
• Duration: 119 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,7.

The story of an orphan boy homelessness Kiyuta and man-bear Kumatetsu. Boy and the Beast live in different worlds, which should not be crossed, but it happens that the inhabitants of a parallel universe to take an orphan himself. Kiyuta becomes Kumatetsu pupil and begins to train his various martial tricks to prepare for impending disasters.

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Hiromasa Onebayasi

Hiromasa Onebayasi considered the youngest director of animation studio Ghibli. In 2016, its full-length work "Memories of Marnie" received "Oscar" in the nomination "Best Animated Film".

Arrietty

• Fantasy.
• Japan, in 2010.
• Duration: 90 min.
• IMDb: 7,6.

Twelve-year-Sho comes to stay in the old house of his aunt, and accidentally saves a cat unusual tiny girl named Arietti. So he learns that the neighborhood with ordinary people live liliputy- "dobyvayki" who are trying hard to keep his existence a secret. In spite of all prohibitions between Sho and Arietti friendships, but she went on a little longer.

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Memories of Marnie

• Drama.
• Japan 2014.
• Duration: 123 min.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Anna - incredibly lonely girl, who can not understand any of her adoptive parents, or anyone else. The only comfort her - is drawing. One day during a lesson at Anna Park is undergoing the strongest attack of asthma, after which the parents decide to send her to heal their relatives in a house on the coast. There she meets a mysterious Marnie, which after some time disappears somewhere.

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki - the most famous Japanese director, animator, writer, co-founder of the animation studio Ghibli. In his works, often draws attention to such complex topics as war, pacifism, environmental problems, human relationship to nature, growing up.

Porco Rosso

• Fantasy, romance, adventure.
• Japan 1992.
• Duration: 94 min.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Cartoon of pilots virtuoso Marco Pagotte that so disappointed in the people that incurred the curse, and he looked like a pig. Once in power in Italy the Nazis came, Marco began to work for the state, protecting merchant ships from attacking the hijackers. They do not like it, so they decided to eliminate Marco, making him fight to the king of flights - pilot ace Curtis.

The wind grows stronger

• Drama, Biography, History.
• Japan, in 2013.
• Duration: 126 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

An unusual life story of Jiro Horikoshi - the man who designed the Japanese planes fighter during the Second World War. According to Miyazaki, "The wind grows stronger" - this is the only of his cartoon, shot for adults.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds

• Science Fiction, Fantasy, Drama.
• Japan, USA, 1984.
• Duration: 112 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

On Earth, there was a terrible environmental disaster: almost all of its surface is covered poisonous sea. The only island of tranquility only valley winds remained in this world - serene kingdom, which is ruled by an unusual girl Nausicaa and her wise father. This piece of paradise is haunted by the residents of the other remaining states who decide to fight for the remaining natural resources.

Goro Miyazaki

Goro Miyazaki - Japanese artist and director, son of the famous Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki's father was opposed to his son works as a director, arguing that that is not enough experience yet. Goro but still get to work on his own animated series and today it has released several independent works.

From Up on Poppy Hill

• Drama.
• Japan, in 2011.
• Duration: 91 min.
• IMDb: 7,4.

Umi childhood used to being independent and solve problems alone. She did not lose even a moment when I had to go to Tokyo for an important meeting in the school sponsor to save the building from demolition. While there were all these events, the girl did not notice how suddenly in love.

Osifumi Condo

Osifumi Condo - Japanese animator, designer and director of photography, who worked in conjunction with Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Unfortunately, Kondo died of an aneurysm, but left in the memory of himself some great work.

Whisper of the Heart

• Drama, Romance.
• Japan, 1995.
• Duration: 111 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Shizuku loves books and tries to spend every free minute reading. Soon she noticed that all the books that she takes in the library, had already read some Seiji Amasava. Shizuku decides to find out what is this mysterious stranger with whom she is so identical interests, and get to know him better.

Isao Takahata

Isao Takahata - director, screenwriter, producer, co-founder of Studio Ghibli. His work wise, melancholic and largely realistic, so if you want to see something fabulous and easy, then select from a list of anything else.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

• Fantasy.
• Japan, in 2013.
• Duration: 125 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Anime, based on an ancient Japanese folk tale "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter." One day, walking through the woods, the old man Taketori stumbled upon a strange glowing bamboo stem. When he examined it more closely, I found a tiny girl who changed his life forever.

Grave of the fireflies

• Drama, War.
• Japan 1988.
• Duration: 89 min.
• IMDb: 8,5.

Anime of heavy and dramatic story of two orphans who lost their parents during the Second World War, and now have to survive in a cruel postwar world on their own.

Satoshi Kon

Japanese director Satoshi Kon is not well known, but his works were inspired by such directors as Christopher Nolan and Darren AronofskyAnd this is something so mean. In his paintings, the director loves ostrosotsialnye address different problems.

Tokyo Godfathers

• Drama, comedy, adventure.
• Japan 2003.
• Duration: 88 min.
• IMDb: 7,9.

Wandering in the streets of Tokyo, three vagabond beggars are on the street abandoned newborn baby. Homeless people decide to help the little one to find his parents, why should they at any cost.

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Paprika

• Detective.
• Japan 2006.
• Duration: 90 min.
• IMDb: 7,7.

In the near future it was invented a device DC Mini, allows doctors to enter the dreams and fantasies of patients. It was not dangerous as long as do not fall into the wrong hands, that with it began to be reduced to innocent people crazy.

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