15. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

• • MPAA
  • TV-PG

• Riisa Naka
• Takuya Ishida

After gaining the ability to travel across time, Makoto, a high school student, chooses to utilize it for her own benefit. She has no idea that her actions have an equal impact on other people as they...Read more do on herself.

14. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

• • MPAA
  • TV-14

• Kôichi Yamadera
• Unshô Ishizuka

A spaceship crew needs to apprehend a former military leader who has terrified a whole city with an army of robots and toxic substances in order to receive a large bounty.

13. Tokyo Godfathers

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Shôzô Îzuka
• Hiroya Ishimaru

While searching for food, three homeless people in Tokyo discover a newborn baby in the trash. They make the decision to look for his parents and attempt to gather information about who they are.

12. The Wind Rises

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Hideaki Anno
• Mirai Shida

A depiction of the life of Japanese aviation engineer Jirô Horikoshi, from his childhood through witnessing important historical events and his relationship with his friends and family.

11. Paprika

• • MPAA
  • R

• Megumi Hayashibara
• Tôru Furuya

Three researchers at a mental health facility are unable to prevent the theft of their amazing new invention. It is an electronic device that allows them to record the dreams of their patients while...Read more they sleep. The thief uses the device to control people's minds and spread a lot of chaos everywhere.

10. Ponyo

• • مصري
  • All Ages
• • MPAA
  • G

• Cate Blanchett
• Matt Damon

Ponyo is a fish-girl who lives with her many sisters in her father’s underwater castle. Her father takes her and her sister on a trip to see the sea-world beyond their castle and thus Ponyo’s...Read more curiosity is awakened. She soon manages to escape from the castle and meets a human boy who rescues her. Upon her return to the castle, Ponyo seems to develop feelings for the boy, and starts to turn human.

9. Grave of the Fireflies

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Tsutomu Tatsumi
• Ayano Shiraishi

As WWII draws to a close, a raid kills the mother of Seita and Setsuko, leaving the older Seita to take care of his young sister on his own as the two struggle to survive and make it back to their...Read more family.

8. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'

• • MPAA
  • NR

• Miki Itô
• Yûko Minaguchi

When remnants of Frieza's army devise a plan to bring him back to life, the fate of the planet becomes at risk, as Frieza sets out to exact his revenge on the Super Saiyans.

7. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

• • MPAA
  • PG

• Sumi Shimamoto
• Mahito Tsujimura

Earth has been devastated by an apocalyptic war that turned the ecosystem on its head. Surviving amidst the difficult aftermath is Nausicaä, the princess of the Valley of the Wind, who fends off giant...Read more insect attacks from the nearby toxic jungles and tries to stop two tribes from going to war.

6. My Neighbor Totoro

• Noriko Hidaka
• Chika Sakamoto

When the two sisters Satsuki and Mei move to the country to be closer to their sick mother, they embark on a fascinating adventure, as they discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical...Read more spirits called Totoros.