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The list also does not include ancillary revenue from other sources such as home entertainment or merchandise sales, where a number of Japanese films earn significantly more revenue. The anime film My Neighbor Totoro (1988), for example, grossed about $1.4 billion from home video and licensed merchandise sales. [5]
Animation films have included top grossing Japanese films of the year, such as Doraemon (1980, 1983, 1984), [1] Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), [2] Only Yesterday (1991), [3] Porco Rosso (1992), [4] Pom Poko (1994), [5] and Whisper of the Heart (1995). [6] Yet no animated film received a nomination for a Japan Academy Film Prize ...
Here we give you an attempt to rank the best anime films of all time. To do so, we should say a quick note of what we mean by “anime.” And what we mean by “anime” is: animated movies ...
[57] [58] My Neighbor Totoro was ranked third on the list of "Greatest Japanese Animated Films of All Time" by film magazine Kinema Junpo in 2009, 41st in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010, second on a similar Empire list of best children's films, and number one in the greatest animated films in Time Out; a similar ...
Hayao Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, in the town Akebono-cho in HongÅ, Tokyo City, Empire of Japan, the second of four sons. [1] [2] [3] [note 1] His father, Katsuji Miyazaki (born 1915), [1] was the director of Miyazaki Airplane, his brother's company, [5] which manufactured rudders for fighter planes during World War II. [4]
The Akira anime also made Time magazine's list of top 5 anime DVDs. [124] The film also made number 16 on Time Out ' s top 50 animated movie list [125] and number 5 on the Total Film Top 50 Animated Films list. [126] The film was ranked No. 1 by Wizard's Anime magazine on their "Top 50 Anime released in North America" list in 2001. [127]
The first Miyazaki feature to use computer graphics, and the first Studio Ghibli film to use digital coloring; the first animated feature in Japan's history to gross more than 10 billion yen at the box office and the first animated film ever to win a National Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year: Princess Mononoke
In the years since 2020, there have been several US theatrical releases of new Japanese animated films, and even limited-time re-releases of popular films such as The End of Evangelion and a variety of Ghibli films screened nationwide during Ghiblifest. Netflix has also adapted an expanding number of live-action series based on Japanese anime IP.