Japan

A family gathers to mark the anniversary of the eldest son's death twelve years earlier and old tensions resurface.

Four children are abandoned by their mother and must fend for themselves in a Tokyo apartment.

A businessman discovers that his son was switched at birth and must decide whether to take back his biological son or keep the boy he has raised as his own.

A family on the edges of Japanese society takes in a young girl but their secret is about to unravel.

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven samurai to help them defend themselves.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play both sides against each other.

An aging couple travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children but are ignored by their busy kids.

During her family's move to the suburbs a sulky 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods witches and spirits where humans are changed into beasts.

The murder of a samurai is told from four different perspectives of a bandit a wife a husband and a woodcutter.

Sisters Satsuki and Mei move to the countryside near the hospital where their mother is recovering from illness. While exploring their new home the girls encounter Totoro — a large gentle woodland spirit who can only be seen by children — and other magical creatures of rural Japan. There is no villain in My Neighbor Totoro no antagonist to overcome — just the ordinary anxieties of childhood held with extraordinary warmth and a visual language of wonder that makes the world feel fundamentally safe even in its strangeness. Miyazaki's most healing and most purely joyful film.