Studio Ghibli

On the data. Twenty-five features, and the edges of the list are the interesting part. Two of them are arguable and both are here with the argument written down. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was made in 1984 at Topcraft, a year before Studio Ghibli existed, and is on every Ghibli list because its success is what paid for the studio to be founded. The Red Turtle is a co-production with a Dutch director and French producers, with Isao Takahata as artistic producer, and it is the member of this list with the weakest claim to be here. One film on this list is not controlled by Ghibli at all. Grave of the Fireflies belongs to Shinchosha, the publisher of the story it adapts, which is why it is missing from the Netflix and HBO Max Ghibli deals, missing from most box sets, and sold by a different distributor from everything else here. It is the most common gap in a Ghibli collection and it is a contract rather than an oversight. Nothing connects to anything else. No sequels, no shared characters, no continuity, with one exception: the Baron appears in one imagined sequence in Whisper of the Heart and then gets his own film in The Cat Returns seven years later. That is the only link in forty years. Tales from Earthsea sits on the Earthsea page as well as this one, because it adapts Ursula K. Le Guin and belongs to that shelf too. It is the same row and the same tick box in both places, not a copy. The studio has made no feature since The Boy and the Heron in 2023, and said in August 2026 that it has not decided on its next one and that discussions were casual. So twenty-five is the number for now.

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