Shinobu Ôtake

The Boy and the Heron

• 2023
• PG-13
• 2h 4m
• Adventure, Animation, Drama, Fantasy

• 7.4

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

• 2022
• 1h 37m
• Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family

• 6.8

A heartwarming comedy-drama about the bonds shared by an unconventional mother and daughter in a sleepy seaside town.

Mary and the Witch’s Flower

• 2018
• PG
• 1h 43m
• Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy

• 6.8

Based on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.

Our Little Sister

• 2016
• PG
• 2h 7m
• Drama, Family

• 7.6

Three sisters live together in Kamakura. When their father - absent for 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them.

The Wind Rises

• 2014
• PG-13
• 2h 6m
• Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War

• 7.8

Jiro Horikoshi studies assiduously to fulfill his aim of becoming an aeronautical engineer. As WWII begins, fighter aircraft designed by him end up getting used by the Japanese Empire against its foes.

The Secret World of Arrietty

• 2012
• G
• 1h 34m
• Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy

• 7.6

The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter Arrietty is discovered.