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OK so this really IS the last thread for Club Ghibli - though I'd still love to hear from the Ghiblets about their film ranks in the After Party thread!
In Club Ghibli we covered the 23 movies in the Studio Ghibli canon to date - BUT there are other pre-Ghibli or otherwise Ghibli-adjacent movies out there, so I wanted to give them a bit of a shout-out. I have a few on DVD too so I'm going to give them an airing in the next few weeks. Let me know if you watch/watched them and what you thought.
Pre-Ghibli:
There were a few Hayao Miyazaki director credits before the Studio was established (technically Nausicaa is one of them but it had the core team together so it's usually counted in the canon.
The Castle of Cagliostoro (1979) - released in the Ghibli DVD collection, unnumbered I think, but Miyazaki's directorial debut film. Starring famous master-thief Lupin III from the long running series of anime, TV and movies.
The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968) - Isao Takahata's directorial debut. I think I've seen this ...?
Panda go Panda (1972) - Two half-hour films directed by Takahata and written by Miyazaki, about a curiously Totoro-esque panda
Jarinko Chie (1981) - Takahata directed this film about a small girl who helps out her drunk Yakuza father in Osaka
Gauche the Cellist (1982) - Another Takahata directed movie, about a failed cellist getting help from animals to get better, with a Beethoven soundtrack.
TV series:
Lots of pre-Ghibli TV credits for Miyazaki and Takahata, including famous works such as "Heidi, Girl of the Alps", "Future Boy Conan", "Lupin III", "Anne of Green Gables" and "Sherlock Hound"
Also, an actual Studio Ghibli series, "Ronja, the Robber's daughter", directed by Goro Miyazaki.
Also oddly but somehow not surprisingly, "The Story of Yanagawa's Canals", a Takahata-directed documentary about actual canals in Fukuoka. No animation, just that.
Crossovers & the extended universe:
Probably the most famous collaboration is Ghibli's work with Michael Dudok du Wit on "The Red Turtle" (2016) and bagged an Animated Feature Oscar nomination.
When Ghibli seemed to be closing its doors, Studio Ponoc, with many animators from Ghibli, which has released two movies so far, "Mary & The Witch's Flower" (2017) and "Modest Heroes" (2018), with a third, "The Imaginary", in the works.
On top of all this, there is the "Ni no Kuni" video game RPG series, made with Level-5 (I think there was a movie about that too), various specially-produced commercials and music videos, as well as the short movies shown exclusively in the Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo (and seemingly nowhere online). I managed to go there 3 times, annoyingly I saw one movie twice - one was about a lost dog, and another was a Totoro sequel(?!) which included various Catbus variants and a CAT TRAIN.
I know all this is a LOT, but I wanted somewhere to put it all, and any discoveries my dear Ghiblets uncover.
It's an all-you-can-eat buffet of cold cuts, so have your fill!
In Club Ghibli we covered the 23 movies in the Studio Ghibli canon to date - BUT there are other pre-Ghibli or otherwise Ghibli-adjacent movies out there, so I wanted to give them a bit of a shout-out. I have a few on DVD too so I'm going to give them an airing in the next few weeks. Let me know if you watch/watched them and what you thought.
Pre-Ghibli:
There were a few Hayao Miyazaki director credits before the Studio was established (technically Nausicaa is one of them but it had the core team together so it's usually counted in the canon.
The Castle of Cagliostoro (1979) - released in the Ghibli DVD collection, unnumbered I think, but Miyazaki's directorial debut film. Starring famous master-thief Lupin III from the long running series of anime, TV and movies.
The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968) - Isao Takahata's directorial debut. I think I've seen this ...?
Panda go Panda (1972) - Two half-hour films directed by Takahata and written by Miyazaki, about a curiously Totoro-esque panda
Jarinko Chie (1981) - Takahata directed this film about a small girl who helps out her drunk Yakuza father in Osaka
Gauche the Cellist (1982) - Another Takahata directed movie, about a failed cellist getting help from animals to get better, with a Beethoven soundtrack.
TV series:
Lots of pre-Ghibli TV credits for Miyazaki and Takahata, including famous works such as "Heidi, Girl of the Alps", "Future Boy Conan", "Lupin III", "Anne of Green Gables" and "Sherlock Hound"
Also, an actual Studio Ghibli series, "Ronja, the Robber's daughter", directed by Goro Miyazaki.
Also oddly but somehow not surprisingly, "The Story of Yanagawa's Canals", a Takahata-directed documentary about actual canals in Fukuoka. No animation, just that.
Crossovers & the extended universe:
Probably the most famous collaboration is Ghibli's work with Michael Dudok du Wit on "The Red Turtle" (2016) and bagged an Animated Feature Oscar nomination.
When Ghibli seemed to be closing its doors, Studio Ponoc, with many animators from Ghibli, which has released two movies so far, "Mary & The Witch's Flower" (2017) and "Modest Heroes" (2018), with a third, "The Imaginary", in the works.
On top of all this, there is the "Ni no Kuni" video game RPG series, made with Level-5 (I think there was a movie about that too), various specially-produced commercials and music videos, as well as the short movies shown exclusively in the Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo (and seemingly nowhere online). I managed to go there 3 times, annoyingly I saw one movie twice - one was about a lost dog, and another was a Totoro sequel(?!) which included various Catbus variants and a CAT TRAIN.
I know all this is a LOT, but I wanted somewhere to put it all, and any discoveries my dear Ghiblets uncover.
It's an all-you-can-eat buffet of cold cuts, so have your fill!