Studio Ghibli (スタジオジブリ) occurs as Japanese animation film studio. Its anime films have been provocative, ingenious, emotional & widely praised everthing on top the world.

Its title derives from either a nickname a Italians used for their Saharan scouting planes in the Second World War, which derived from a Italian word for hot wind blowing through the Sahara Desert (sirocco). Though a term is Italian, a Japanese pronunciation of the studio's title is 'ji-bree' or even 'ji-bu-ri'. a theory behind a title was that a studio was blowing a freshly wind into the anime industry.

Based around 1985, it is headed per extremely regarded director Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 Miyazaki Hayao) along with his colleague & wise man Isao Takahata (高畑 勲 Takahata Isao). Its origins date back to 1983, with a film Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (風の谷のナウシカ Kaze there are no tani no Naushika, 1984), which started as a serialized manga in a publication of Tokuma Shoten's (徳間書店) Animage magazine. Tokuma is the parent company of Studio Ghibli, & has provided Disney with the streaming video rights to eight of the films & spherical distribution rights to Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫 Mononoke Hime, 1997) and Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, 2001). Miyazaki's latest film, ''Howl's Moving Castle, (ハウルの動く城 Hauru no ugoku shiro'', 2004) was actually based on a book by British author Diana Wynne Jones, published in several countries including Canada and the United States. Composer Joe Hisaishi has provided the soundtrack for a lot of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films.

A best known & lauded film from either a studio that was non directed by Miyazaki is Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓 Hotaru no Haka, 1988), directed by Isao Takahata, a sad film focusing on the endures of deuce war orphans around post-Second World War Japan.

Studio Ghibli works

Castle in the Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) ''Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Sora Iro no Tane (1992) (TV short film) Nandarou (1992) (TV commercial for NHK) Ocean Waves (1993) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) On Your Mark (1995) (a music video) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Ghiblies (2000) (TV short film) Spirited Away (2001) Umacha (2001) (TV commercials) The Cat Returns (2002) (a sequel of sorts to Whisper of the Heart) Ghiblies Episode 2 (2002) (shown in theaters sustaining A Cat Comes back) Lasseter-san, Arigatou (2003) (thank you streaming created for John Lasseter) Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Other related works
These works were non created by Studio Ghibli, however were by or even even created around cooperation by having Studio Ghibli or members of Studio Ghibli.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (created by Topcraft; many members of Topcraft went around to produce Studio Ghibli in 1985) The Story of Yanagawa's Canals (1987) (a documentary by Isao Takahata) Ozanari Dungeon (1991) (an OVA series for which Studio Ghibli did some animation operate) Kirikou et la sorcière (1998) (a Michel Ocelot adapted into Japanese by Isao Takahata and distributed by Studio Ghibli) Shiki-Jitsu (2000) (directed by Hideaki Anno under a survive action section of Tokuma Shoten, Studio Kajino) Innocence: Ghost in the Shell'' (2004) (a film by Production I.G.)

Additionally, Ghibli did act in Takahata's short in the 2004 experimental animation anthology Winter Days.