anyways

omg i'm bored so

yes

in no particular order


my favs are probaly spirted away (duh!)

howls movie castle


and.... TOTORO


BTW i forgot who was the person who created totoro and all dat...forgot his name..

I like laputa, nausicca and kiki's delivery service

Hayao Miyazaki.

My favorites are:

Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Laputa: Castle in the Sky

I like everthing!! because all of the films Studio Ghibli made, creates a child out of you..

yeh i like everything too

but i haven't seen them all

i'm gonna have to hunt for them =[


dat guy, wateva his name is, who created studio ghilbi is a very good artist

his ideas are always very very very original (who would think of howls moving castle or laputa and totoro) and his art for like the trees and the houses are very good, but me and i friend both agreed dat the ears of the people are too low.



i wanna see them all, ppl say whisper of the heart is very good too.

I love them all and have them all on DVD, but those are my favorite.

i like all of them

Whisper of the Heart(Yoshifumi Kondo) is very good, a romantic genre that is tied with music..

I'm not sure if this goes to every single films Hayao made, but Howl's moving castle is based upon a book... Yes, it's very original in a sense of art, concept, and ideas of creating an imagination....

Actually Howl's Moving Castle is based off a book by Diana Wynne Jones.

basically everything by studio ghibli <3

The best Ghibli film I've seen is definately Grave of the Fireflies (it's not a Miyazaki film by the way).

The other great Ghibli classics are usually Miyazaki films, my favourite ones being Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke (I also liked his pre-Ghibli anime works, Future Boy Conan and Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro).

I found Spirited Away to be quite overrated though.

Hey I am curious, what is the difference between the three different releases of Castle of Cagliostro ?
I own the original Manga/Madman Entertainment DVD release which has 2.0 English audio and the original Japanese in 2.0 audio as well.
Now Madman claim to have remixed their previous audio into 5.1 English, while the original Japanese audio is presented in 1.0.
From what I understand there was also an older version with a totally different audio track released by Streamline in the UK.

Anybody else got any information ?

The only version I remember seeing was the English dub (which I assume was 2.0) a long time ago.

I don't usually buy DVDs though (yes, I'm one of those filthy downloaders), so I can't really you out here.

OK, no worries.
I recently found out that there are two different English dubs - Streamline version and Manga/Madman Entertainment version.

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This is a though question, cant answer you!
I love all his works!

Actually I have only seen a few of the Studio Ghibli films, but so far I like Spirited Away the best.



I recently bought the newly remastered 5.1 version of The Castle of Cagliostro, and found that it is markedly different in the audio.
The dialogue and sound effects are quite different from the previous region 4 release by Madman Entertainment.
From what I gather, Madman Entertainment licensed the UK Streamline version and presented it in a very basic 5.1 mix.
There are no fancy new foley elements, which is disappointing.
The English dialogue dub track of this new 5.1 release of the old Lupin III classic is certainly different, but since there is no coarse language, I do not see any valid reason for the rating upgrade from PG to M for mature audiences. Perhaps Madman thought it would sell better if they made it appear more "naughty".
In fact the previous 2.0 release by Madman, which I also own, sounds better to me with its more realistic restaurant scene sound effects and loud machine gunfire and more grunt in the car chase scenes. The voice actor who did the character of Jigen in Madman's 2.0 version also breathed more life into him.
Sorry to be a party pooper, but this 5.1 version does not live up to all the hype surrounding its release.
I admit the picture quality is brighter, but the all-important audio is lacking.

Grave of the Fireflies is by far the best Studio Ghibli movie. It is important not to forget this because this is the tale of suffering for much of the world's population which is dying of lack of water and food.

Other movies such as Castle of Cagliostro, Porco Rosso, Castle in the Sky, KiKi's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Only Yesterday, and Whisper of the Heart are good too.

Mononoke.

One curious thing about Studio Ghibli films is that some of them work better in English, Italian or German, rather than in their original Japanese dialogue.
Of course many people prefer Mononoke Hime or Spirited Away in Japanese with subtitles, as these films have a Japanese setting and the "music" of the language imbues those films with the appropriate cultural and spiritual nuances. However I feel odd watching for example Howl's Moving Castle in Japanese, and switch it over to German or English to get the right feel.
What do other members think about this ?

The English dub I remember watching was the Manga Entertainment version. I saw it a very long time ago though. Castle of Cagliostro was probably the very first Miyazaki film I saw.


I agree about Grave of the Fireflies being the best Studio Ghibli movie. In fact, I would even consider it to be the best animated film I've ever seen. It has a truly universal message that could easily apply to any place and time, as billions of children in poverty around the world continue to meet the same fate as the siblings in the film.


It depends how well they do the dub, though the dubs for most of the Ghibli movies are usually of a very high standard. Watching a movie in a language that matches the setting is also important, as it gives a greater sense of authenticity when watching Grave of the Fireflies, Mononoke Hime and Spirited Away in Japanese, Howl's Moving Castle in English, Porco Russo in English or Italian, etc.

The only exception to this I felt was Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Although there was nothing wrong with the quality of the English dub itself, the American accents seemed inappropriate for a Victorian setting, and the sound effects were also a bit off. I preferred the Japanese track for Laputa instead. I've only seen Nausicaa and Kiki's Delivery Service in Japanese though, so I'm not sure how they did the English dubs for those.