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Kaze no tani no Naushika aka Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japan , 1984)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.1
Release Year -1984
Country - Japan
Genres – Animation | Action | Adventure

Synopsis: Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.




Awards & Lists: IMDB Top 250 #249 | 3 more wins
Special Mention: Rated by more than 28k users on IMDb










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Tonari no Totoro aka My Neighbor Totoro (Japan , 1988)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.2
Release Year -1988
Country - Japan
Genres – Animation | Adventure | Family

Synopsis: 
Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros. They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.
Awards & Lists - IMDb Top 250 #183 | Another 5 wins
Special Mention - Rated by more than 42k users on IMDb







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Hauru no ugoku shiro aka Howl's Moving Castle (Japan , 2004)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.1 | Metacritic - 80
Release Year - 2004
Country - Japan
Genres – Animation | Action | Adventure

Synopsis: A love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sofî, cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, and a magician named Hauru. Under the curse, Sofî sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Hauru's strange moving castle. In the castle, Sophie meets Hauru's fire demon, named Karishifâ. Seeing that she is under a curse, the demon makes a deal with Sophie--if she breaks the contract he is under with Hauru, then Karushifâ will lift the curse that Sophie is under, and she will return to her 18-year-old shape.

Awards & Lists – IMDB Top 250 #221 | Nominated for Oscar. Another 8 wins
Special Mention - Rated by more tahn 60k users on IMDB




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Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta aka Castle in the Sky (Japan , 1986)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1
Release Year - 1986
Country - Japan
Genres - Animation | Action | Adventure

Synopsis: A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machine, eventually searching for Sheeta's identity in a floating castle of a lost civilization.

Awards & Lists - 1 win

 
 


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Mononoke-hime aka Princess Mononoke

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4 | Metacritic - 76
Release Year - 1997
Country - Japan
Genres - Animation | Adventure | Fantasy

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Synopsis: On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

Best Film Awards - Best Home Video Release (Saturn Award - 2001) ; Best Film (Award of the Japanese Academy - 1998) ; Readers' Choice Award (Knima Jumpo Awards - 1998) ; Best Animated Film (Mainichi Film Concours - 1998)

Lists - Ranked #108 in IMDB Top 250 list



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Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi aka Spirited Away

Ratings - IMDB - 8.6 | Metacritic - 94
Release Year - 2001
Country - Japan
Genres - Animation | Adventure | Family
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Synopsis: In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures.

Best Film Awards - Best Animated Feature (Oscar - 2003) ; Golden Berlin Bear (Berlin International Film Festival - 2002) ; Best Animated Film (Saturn Award,Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - 2003) ; Best Film (Award of the Japanese Academy - 2002) ; Best Film (Blue Ribbon Award - 2002) ; Best Animated Feature (Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - 2003) ; Best Film - Audience Award(Cambridge Film Festival - 2003) ; Cinekid Film Award -2002 ; Best Animated Film (DFWFCA Award - 2003) ; Best Film (Durban International Film Festival - 2002) ; Best Foreign-Language Film (FCCA Award - 2003) ; Best Animation (FFCC Award - 2003) ; Best Asian Film(Hong Kong Film Award - 2002) ; Best Film, Readers' Choice Award (Kinema Junpo Awards - 2002) ; Best Animation (LAFCA Award - 2002) ; Best Animated Film(Mainichi Film Concours - 2002) ; Best Animated Feature (NBR Award - 2002) ; Best Animated Film(NYFCC Award - 2002) ; Best Film(Nikkan Sports Film Award - 2001)


Lists - Ranks as the 13th-best animated film on Rotten Tomatoes; Ranked as the 12th-best animated film of all time by IGN ; Ranked #9 of the highest-rated movies of all time on Metacritic ; Ranked #10 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010 ; IMDB Top 250 #47


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