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Today, there are no people who have not heard of such a wonderful genre of Japanese animation as anime. These fascinating stories amaze not only with the beauty of their embodiment, but also with their deep meaning and metaphor.

In this article site has collected 20 of the best works of talented Japanese directors. After watching the first three, you will fall in love with anime forever!

Spirited Away

© Buena Vista International

Little Chihiro moves to a new home with her mom and dad. Lost along the way, they find themselves in a strange, deserted city, where a magnificent feast awaits them. Parents eagerly pounce on food and, to the horror of the girls, turn into pigs, becoming prisoners of the evil sorceress Yubaba, the ruler of the mysterious world of ancient gods and powerful spirits.

Walking castle

The wicked witch imprisoned 18-year-old Sophie in the body of an old woman. In search of someone who will help her return to her appearance, Sophie meets the powerful wizard Howl and his demon Calcifer. Calcifer is to serve Howl under a contract, the terms of which he cannot divulge. The girl and the demon decide to help each other get rid of the evil spell.

Grave of fireflies

© Shinchosha Company

The last days of World War II. American aircraft are bombing defenseless Japanese cities. 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko fall into the maelstrom of human everyday nightmare. Having suffered the most bitter loss - the loss of loved ones, they were left completely alone. A young boy becomes an adult overnight, faced with the cruelty of the world. He realizes that the life of his little sister depends on him.

My neighbor Totoro

After moving to the village, the two little sisters, the elder Satsuki and the younger Mei, get to know the forest spirit, which Mei calls Totoro (a distorted "troll"). Having made friends with the girls, Totoro not only gives them an air tour of his property, but also helps them see their mother, who is in the hospital.

Princess mononoke

© DENTSU Music And Entertainment Inc.

The young prince Ashitaka, having killed the boar, incurred a fatal curse. The old healer predicted to him that only he himself is able to change his fate. And the brave warrior set off on a dangerous journey. So he ended up in a mysterious country, where people under the leadership of the evil Lady Eboshi fought with the inhabitants of the forest: spirits, demons and giant creatures that Ashitaka had never seen before.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

© Happinet Pictures

17-year-old Makoto Konno does not study very well, is often late and does not know what she wants to become after graduation. In the evenings she plays baseball with friends, every morning she gets on the bike and rushes to class. But suddenly a strange event happens in her usual measured life, and Makoto gains the ability to travel in time.

Whisper of the Heart

© Hakuhodo Incorporated

Shizuku, taking another book in the library, accidentally noticed that a certain Seiji had taken this book before her. And this was not the first time that this Seiji had read other books that she liked. Curious, Shizuku decided to find out who he is, this reading prince?

5 centimeters per second

A film covering over 10 years of the life of the protagonist Takaki Tohno. Consists of three stories that originate in Japan in the mid-1990s.

Heavenly castle Laputa

An alternative reality corresponding to the beginning of the 20th century. In the hands of a girl named Sita is the Flying Stone. It is hunted by government agents and pirates because the Stone is of great value. While trying to hide from her pursuers, Sita meets Pazu, a fellow of her age who works in a mining town. Together, the children find out that the Stone is the key to the mysterious flying island Laputa.

The wind is getting stronger

© Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Boy Jiro dreams of flying and beautiful airplanes that can overtake the wind. But he cannot become a pilot - he is short-sighted from birth. But Jiro does not part with the dream of the sky, he begins to come up with the perfect plane and eventually becomes one of the best aircraft designers in the world. On the way to success, he will not only meet many interesting people, survive the Great Tokyo Earthquake and brutal wars, but also find the love of his life - the beautiful Naoko.

Wolf children of Ame and Yuki

© Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company (CTV)

Yuki and Ame are only seemingly ordinary children, who should not care about the hardships of the world around them. When their father, the last representative of the ancient werewolf family, dies, their mother - an ordinary girl who once fell in love with a man who turned out to be a wolf - has to move away from the big city and start all over again.

Kiki's delivery service

The young witch Kiki, upon reaching the age of 13, must live a certain time among people. Kiki, along with her cat Gigi, goes to the city, where he meets a kind baker, who helps her start her own business - to open an emergency delivery service. The work introduces Kiki to various people and provides an opportunity to make new friends and do a lot of tricks.

Arietti of the Land of the Lilliputians

© Buena Vista Home Entertainment

The story of little people who live next to us, borrowing things little by little. Their existence is kept secret. But young Arietti is breaking the ban. She is discovered by 14-year-old Sho and they become best friends.

Naruto

© Studio Pierrot Co. Ltd.

In the series "Naruto" the story is about novice ninja who have just graduated from the academy and received "certificates" in the form of bandages. Immediately after the end, the heroes find themselves in many alterations and dangerous situations, find friends, meet enemies.

Garden of graceful words

© CoMix Wave Inc.

A young man named Takao meets a mysterious young woman. Their casual and seemingly inane meetings in the park, where Takao skips classes, working to achieve his strange dream - to devote his life to the design and manufacture of shoes - are repeated over and over ... but only on rainy days. The hearts of the heroes begin to open up to each other, but this takes time, and the end of the rainy season is already ahead ...

From the slopes of Kokuriko

The action takes place in 1963 near Yokohama. Umi Matsuzaki's father, the ship's commander, died 10 years ago during the Korean War, when she was still a little girl. While her mother is away, the girl has to manage the household, in particular, remember to raise the flags every morning - this rule was set by her father to see from the sea that he was expected at home.

Makoto Shinkai is an animator, director and screenwriter. He prefers to work alone with minimal resources. He drew his first cartoons without anyone's help on his home computer. For the high-quality and detailed traced picture, Shinkai has been called “the second Miyazaki” more than once, but the artist himself is too modest to agree with this.

Your name

• Fantasy, drama, melodrama.
• Japan, 2016.
• Duration: 110 minutes
• IMDb: 8.5.

Mitsuha is a high school student from a small town lost in the mountains. She dreams of growing up as soon as possible and moving to a bustling metropolis. Taki is an ordinary guy living in downtown Tokyo. They have never met and never met, but an unusual connection between them still exists. In a dream, Taki and Mitsuha change bodies and acquire the ability to live each other's lives. At first they see it as a fun game, but over time it gets much more complicated.

Garden of graceful words

• Melodrama.
• Japan, 2013.
• Duration: 46 minutes
• IMDb: 7.6.

Takao wants to devote his life to making shoes, so he regularly runs away from boring school classes to a Japanese kindergarten to calmly draw sketches. One day he meets the mysterious woman Yukio, who goes out for walks only in the rain. Takao falls in love with her, but the rainy season is drawing to a close and it is unknown if they will ever see each other again.

Catchers of Forgotten Voices

• Drama, adventure.
• Japan, 2011.
• Duration: 116 minutes
• IMDb: 7.3.

Asuna's girlfriend lives in a small Japanese village. She has very few friends, so she spends most of her evenings on the hillside listening to an old radio using a magic crystal. Once, on the way to the hill, a strange creature attacks the girl, from which the young man Xiong rescues her. After this incident, a friendship is struck between them, but unexpectedly Xiong tragically dies, and Asuna goes on a risky journey.

5 centimeters per second

• Drama, melodrama.
• Japan, 2007.
• Duration: 63 minutes
• IMDb: 7.8.

Three beautiful and sad stories of love, time and distance, organically linked into one well-drawn cartoon with amazing soundtrack. They are about the life and growing up of the main character Takaki Tohno and his attempts to support.

Mamoru Hosoda

Mamoru Hosoda is a director and screenwriter for animated films. He made his first film in high school when he was still just a boy. In many interviews, Hosoda says that life experience is often the basis and stimulus for new scripts for his films. That is why the director has so many works devoted to the family, the process of growing up and the formation of a personality.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

• Science fiction, drama, melodrama, comedy.
• Japan, 2006.
• Duration: 98 minutes
• IMDb: 7.8.

Having survived a terrible accident, seventeen-year-old Makoto suddenly discovers that she has the ability to travel in time. Inspired by an extraordinary gift, she begins with all her might to improve her life, repeatedly returning to the past in order to fix something. But it soon becomes clear that time travel is not a gift, but simply the action of a special device that belongs to the boy Chiaki, who came from the future.

Child of the monster

• Fantasy, adventure.
• Japan, 2015.
• Duration: 119 minutes
• IMDb: 7.7.

The story of Kyuta, a homeless orphan boy, and Kumatetsu, a bear-man. The boy and the monster live in different worlds, which should not intersect, but it happens that the inhabitants of a parallel universe take the orphan to themselves. Kyuta becomes a pupil of Kumatetsu and begins to learn various combat tricks from him in order to prepare for an impending natural disaster.

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Hiromasa Yonebayashi is considered the youngest director of the Ghibli Animation Studio. In 2016, his feature film Memories of Marnie won an Oscar for Best Animated Film.

Arietti from the land of the midgets

• Fantasy.
• Japan, 2010.
• Duration: 90 minutes
• IMDb: 7.6.

Twelve-year-old Syo comes to visit his aunt's old house and accidentally saves an unusual tiny girl named Arietti from a cat. So he learns that in the neighborhood of ordinary people live midget "prey" who are trying their best to keep their existence secret. Despite all the prohibitions, a friendship is struck between Syo and Arietti, but it does not last long.

Memories of Marnie

• Drama.
• Japan, 2014.
• Duration: 123 minutes
• IMDb: 7.8.

Anna is an incredibly lonely girl who neither her adoptive parents nor anyone else can understand. Her only consolation is drawing. Once, during a lesson in the park, Anna is experiencing a severe asthma attack, after which her parents decide to send her to her relatives in a house on the coast for medical treatment. There she meets the mysterious Marnie, who after a while disappears somewhere.

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki is the most famous Japanese animation director, writer, and one of the founders of the animation studio Ghibli. In his works, he often draws attention to such complex topics as war, pacifism, environmental problems, man's relationship to nature, and growing up.

Porco Rosso

• Fantasy, melodrama, adventure.
• Japan, 1992.
• Duration: 94 minutes
• IMDb: 7.8.

A cartoon about the virtuoso pilot Marco Pagott, who became so disappointed in people that he incurred a curse and became like a pig. After the Nazis came to power in Italy, Marco began working for the state, protecting merchant ships from attacks by hijackers. They didn't like it very much, so they decided to eliminate Marco, forcing him to fight the real king of flight - ace pilot Curtis.

The wind is getting stronger

• Drama, biography, history.
• Japan, 2013.
• Duration: 126 minutes
• IMDb: 7.8.

The extraordinary life story of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II. According to Miyazaki, "The Wind Rises" is his only cartoon, filmed for adults.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

• Science fiction, fantasy, drama.
• Japan, USA, 1984.
• Duration: 112 minutes
• IMDb: 8.1.

A terrible ecological catastrophe occurred on Earth: almost all of its surface was covered with a poisonous sea. The only island of tranquility in this world is only the Valley of the Winds - a serene kingdom ruled by an unusual girl Nausicaa and her wise father. This piece of paradise haunts the inhabitants of other surviving states who decide to fight for the remaining natural resources.

Goro Miyazaki

Goro Miyazaki is a Japanese artist and director, the son of the famous Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki's father was opposed to his son doing directing, arguing that he still lacked experience. But Goro still got down to work on his own animated series and has already released several independent works to date.

From the slopes of Kokuriko

• Drama.
• Japan, 2011.
• Duration: 91 minutes
• IMDb: 7.4.

Since childhood, Umi is used to being independent and solving problems alone. She was not taken aback even at the moment when it was necessary to go to Tokyo for an important meeting with the sponsor of the school in order to save the building from demolition. While all these events were taking place, the girl did not notice how unexpected it was.

Yoshifumi Kondo

Yoshifumi Kondo is a Japanese animator, designer and production director who worked at Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Unfortunately, Kondo died of an aneurysm, but he left behind some magnificent works of his own.

Whisper of the Heart

• Drama, melodrama.
• Japan, 1995.
• Duration: 111 minutes
• IMDb: 8.0.

Shizuku is very fond of books and tries to spend every free minute reading. Soon she notices that all the books that she borrows from the library have already been read by a certain Seiji Amasawa. Shizuku decides to find out what kind of a mysterious stranger with whom she has such similar interests, and to get to know him better.

Isao Takahata

Isao Takahata is a director, screenwriter, producer, and co-founder of Studio Ghibli. His works are wise, melancholic and in many ways realistic, so if you want to see something fabulous and light, then choose something else from the list.

The Legend of Princess Kaguya

• Fantasy.
• Japan, 2013.
• Duration: 125 minutes
• IMDb: 8.1.

Anime based on the ancient Japanese folk tale "The Tale of Old Man Taketori". One day, while walking through the forest, old Taketori came across a strangely glowing bamboo stalk. When he took a closer look at him, he discovered a tiny girl who changed his life forever.

Grave of fireflies

• Drama, military.
• Japan, 1988.
• Duration: 89 minutes
• IMDb: 8.5.

An anime about the hard and dramatic fate of two orphans who lost their parents during World War II and are now forced to survive in a cruel post-war world on their own.

Satoshi Kon

The Japanese director Satoshi Kon is not very famous, but his works were inspired by such directors as and, and this already means something. In his films, the director likes to touch upon various acute social problems.

Once upon a time in Tokyo

• Drama, Comedy, Adventure.
• Japan, 2003.
• Duration: 88 minutes
• IMDb: 7.9.

Wandering through the streets of Tokyo, three vagrant beggars find an abandoned newborn baby on the street. The homeless people decide to help the little one find their parents, whatever the cost.

Paprika

• Detective.
• Japan, 2006.
• Duration: 90 minutes
• IMDb: 7.7.

In the not too distant future, the DC Mini was invented, allowing doctors to enter patients' dreams and fantasies. It was not dangerous until it fell into the hands of intruders, who, with its help, began to drive innocent people crazy.

Would you like to recommend any other good anime not in this collection? Welcome to comments!

ALEXANDRA GORDIENKO

Editor-in-chief of the program "Tako Kino" on TNT TV channel

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A series of cartoons about the adorable kitten Chii will suit even the smallest kids. Here are stories about how she got lost, staring at the bird, and how she and her family moved to a new house and found friends.

Young Haru rescues a cat from under the wheels of a car, and it turns out that this is not quite an ordinary beast: he speaks the human language and is generally the prince of the Cat Kingdom. In gratitude for the salvation, he wants to marry a girl, only she is not at all eager to go to the kingdom of cats as his wife.

This is the Japanese version of the novels by British writer Mary Norton about little people living in our immediate vicinity. They have no right to show themselves to people, but Arietti does not listen to adults and finds a friend for herself - a boy named Sho.

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A simple drawn cartoon about a princess locked in a high tower, reminiscent of Disney's Rapunzel. Arite lives in the world of wizards and magicians and in every possible way resists the will of her father, who longs to marry her off. The girl dreams of living the life of an ordinary person and seeing the world.

A cartoon for lovers of oddities. For example, part of the plot develops in Guu's stomach - either a girl or a mystical creature swallows her classmates and changes their ideas about the world. It is a mixture of psychologism, absurdity, surrealism. Do not even try to understand what all this is about - just admire the unusual anime, where the heroes are surrounded not by cherry blossoms and glass skyscrapers of Tokyo, but by palm trees and bananas.

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Hayao Miyazaki's script became the basis for this cartoon. Shizuku just loves to read. And, having received a new book in the library, she discovers that, like many of her other favorite books, a certain boy named Seiji has already taken it. The heroine decides to find out who she is.

Three romantic and highly realistic novellas from the life of Takaki Tohno. First love, unrequited feelings, friendship that time and distance cannot destroy ... These stories are united by one hero and his reflections on life. There are many lyrical and philosophical digressions, so this is a movie for teenagers who are particularly assiduous.

Anime for fans of science fiction: in the center of the plot are two werewolf children. After the death of their father, they have to adapt to life among people. It's good that their mother is the most ordinary girl who was once unlucky enough to fall in love with a wolf.

An animated picture from Hayao Miyazaki's son, Goro. Young Umi Matsuzaki not only has to do all the household chores while her mother is away - she and her friends are trying to save a local hobby club, which is threatened with devastation and demolition. Well, and without the first problematic love here, too, could not do.

Not quite the usual creation of Japanese animators: the picture here is flat and almost always black and white. An hour and a half cartoon tells about the life of a traditional family - we watch how they solve land ownership issues and celebrate the holidays. Plus - the cartoon will introduce you to the literary heritage - in between episodes, the haiku of the most famous Japanese poets are read.