dfmorgan's Studio Ghibli Marathon

[dfmorgan]

	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind		Castle in the Sky		Grave of the Fireflies
	My Neighbor Totoro		Kiki's Delivery Service		Only Yesterday
	Porco Rosso		Ocean Waves		Pom Poko
	Whisper of the Heart		Princess Mononoke		My Neighbors The Yamadas
	Spirited Away		The Cat Returns		Howl's Moving Castle
	Tales from Earthsea		Ponyo

The above is my complete Studio Ghibli collection in, as far I can ascertain, publication order. Ratings will be added to each once I have watched and reviewed them.

Dave

[Jon]

 

No! You mustn't! You'll make me buy things!

[Antares]

I'm glad you created this thread. I've always wanted to see Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away. This just reminded me to add them to my library queue. 

[dfmorgan]

No! You mustn't! You'll make me buy things!

How can you not buy Studio Ghibli ? Ok maybe not all but at least Hayao Miyazaki's titles  . One thing I will have to watch Grave of the Fireflies to the end this time.

Dave

[dfmorgan]

I'm glad you created this thread. I've always wanted to see Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away. This just reminded me to add them to my library queue. 

No problemo. Spirited Away is wonderful. I haven't managed to watch  Grave of the Fireflies all the way through, not that there's a problem with the film just the subject matter I found hard to handle.

Dave

[Antares]

I'm glad you created this thread. I've always wanted to see Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away. This just reminded me to add them to my library queue. 

No problemo. Spirited Away is wonderful. I haven't managed to watch  Grave of the Fireflies all the way through, not that there's a problem with the film just the subject matter I found hard to handle.

Dave

Being a military history buff, GotF is the one film I've been wanting to see for years. The problem is, I'm not a fan of anime. I don't know why, but I have a hard time getting into one of the films. I always tend to think Speed Racer is going to show up in the next scene with that annoying little monkey. 

[Jon]

Ah, then Dave's thread could be an eye opener for you. Ghibli is notable for it's refined approach. Grave its possibly one of the best war dramas I have ever seen, animated or not.

I do have several, Dave, it's just somehow I expect to have more soon. And it will be your fault.

[Critter]

 
 
 


I ah... am quite excited about this marathon. I only have three Ghbili films myself on DVD, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Ponyo. I have seen most of them though. I would one day like to own more of them but it just hasn't worked out so far. They are certainly one of my all time favourite animation studios in the world though.

[W0m6at]

The above is my complete Studio Ghibli collection in, as far I can ascertain, publication order. Ratings will be added to each once I have watched and reviewed them.

Dave

Panda Kopanda is often lumped in with Ghibli's films, partly because members of the crew continued on to Ghibli, and partly because Papa Panda is considered a Totoro pre-cursor.
Ghibli also did Iblard Jikan, which is paintings with minimal animation introduced to them (all set to music).
They've also done a documentary or two.

What you have listed is generally considered canonical though.

[Dragonfire]

Ah, then Dave's thread could be an eye opener for you. Ghibli is notable for it's refined approach. Grave its possibly one of the best war dramas I have ever seen, animated or not.

I do have several, Dave, it's just somehow I expect to have more soon. And it will be your fault.

And here it is usually your fault when people buy more..or at least when I buy Blu-rays.

 

I have a few of those...like 5 or 6.  I have to look again.  I hadn't heard of some of those.

[Achim]

I own Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky, both great films that came recommended by my Taiwanese friend. Looking forward to read more reviews.

I have Ponyo wish listed and also would like to get Spirited Away. I am scared to watch Grave of the Fireflies, I get emotional easily.

[RossRoy]

I am scared to watch Grave of the Fireflies, I get emotional easily.

Don't be. It's a wonderful movie.

Spoiler (hover to show)

Just keep the tissue box not too far 

[dfmorgan]

Panda Kopanda is often lumped in with Ghibli's films, partly because members of the crew continued on to Ghibli, and partly because Papa Panda is considered a Totoro pre-cursor.
Ghibli also did Iblard Jikan, which is paintings with minimal animation introduced to them (all set to music).
They've also done a documentary or two.

What you have listed is generally considered canonical though.

  W0m6at. I have

Panda! Go Panda!

which is the US release from Pioneer so I may well review that after completeing the 17 above.

  thanks to everyone else for all the other comments as well. I'm looking forward to doing this and hopefully I will manage to watch one or two a week. I have managed to locate 11 of the titles in my higgledy-piggledy filing system, discs are placed whereever there is a free space, and will look for the remainder over the next couple of days.

Tomorrow I am intending to commence with the viewings so a review should appear during the evening. I've said it before, and I will say it again here, I try to watch my films in original language with English subtitles whereever possible therefore I will be watching these in Japanese with English subtitles. If I should decide to watch the English dub, for whatever reason, I will clearly state that within the review.

Dave

[Jimmy]

I am scared to watch Grave of the Fireflies, I get emotional easily.

Don't be. It's a wonderful movie.

Didn't watch it yet, since I got it because of your review. Not that I don't want to, but I never got the right mood to watch it.

[GSyren]

Being a military history buff, GotF is the one film I've been wanting to see for years. The problem is, I'm not a fan of anime. I don't know why, but I have a hard time getting into one of the films. I always tend to think Speed Racer is going to show up in the next scene with that annoying little monkey. 

I'm not a big fan of anime, either, but I must say that I find Studio Ghibli in general - and Hayao Miyazaki's titles in particular - to be a cut above the rest. I doubt very much that you'll expect Speed Racer to turn up when you watch GoTF. It's a wonderful film. Give it a chance, I'm sure you won't regret it.