Movies

5 Centimeters per Second - Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru - 2007
Tragic romance told with the subtlety of lonely sadness from different points of view.
3.5 stars

Colorful - 2010
A boy arrives in purgatory with amnesia. He is given a second chance and sent back to the body of a boy in the ER who has just died.
3.5 stars

Castle in the Sky - 1986
A girl and a boy adventure to an island in the sky.
3.5 stars

Grave of the Fireflies - 1988
Immediate war/bomb aftermath through a young boy's eyes.
4 stars

Howl's Moving Castle - 2004
A girl transformed by a spell into an old lady seeks the cure.
3 stars

My Neighbor Totoro - 1988
Two young girls move into a country house and find an adventure involving a creature named Totoro. Good for little kids.
1 star

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - 1984
A girl in a post apocalyptic world searches for answers and a way to avoid war and genocide. Good music.
3 stars

Ponyo - 2008
A magic goldfish runs away and is rescued by a 5 year old boy.
4 stars

Princess Mononoke - 1997
A boy seeks to quell the fury of the animal gods in the iron age of feudal Japan.
2.5 stars

Spirited Away - 2001
On her way with her parents to a new home, a girl discovers another world and an adventure.
5 stars

Summer Wars - 2009
A boy is tricked into helping a girl fool her family that he is her fiancee. He receives a complex math problem as a text which he intends to solve, without knowing the consequences it would have on the world.
5 stars

 Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo - The Girl who Leapt through Time - 2006
A girl gains the ability to move through time.
4 stars