MRQE Ranks: Studio Ghibli's Best to Worst Movies

1

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Director: Isao Takahata

Synopsis: Grave of the Fireflies opens on an evening in 1945, after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II; and in a train station, the young Seita die... [MORE]

2

Spirited Away (2002)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise

Synopsis: Master animation director Hayao Miyazaki follows up on his record-breaking 1997 opus Princess Mononoke with this surreal Alice in Wonderland-like t... [MORE]

3

Castle in the Sky (1986)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

4

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Synopsis: Veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki directs this buoyant children's adventure yarn about a young witch striking out on her own. At her mother's behest,... [MORE]

5

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Synopsis: This superbly animated children's tale is directed by Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan's most beloved animators. The story follows Satsuke and Mei, two... [MORE]

6

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Synopsis: This $20 million animated adventure/fantasy quickly became the highest grossing Japanese film in Japanese film history (making $150 million in Japa... [MORE]

7

Howl's Moving Castle (2005)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

8

Porco Rosso (1995)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

9

Ponyo (2009)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Synopsis: Acclaimed anime master Hayao Miyazaki returns for his ninth animated feature with Ponyo, which deals with a friendship between a five-year-old boy ... [MORE]

10

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

Cast: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Carol Burnett, David Henrie, Moisés Arias

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Synopsis: A family of miniature people find their existence threatened due to a forbidden friendship in this Studio Ghibli adaptation of author Mary Norton's... [MORE]

11

The Cat Returns (2003)

Director: Hiroyuki Morita

12

Tales from Earthsea (2006)

Director: Goro Miyazaki