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[Southern Gentleman]

I'm thinking Nausicaa for me, but I've only seen it once. Spirited Away and Kiki are up there as well.

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Mononoke easily.

 

[12Goblins]

Mononoke... by far

 

[DESTROYA]

MiyazakiHatesKojima

 

[kunonabi]

1. Spirited Away
2. The Wind Rises
3. Porco Rosso
4. Ponyo
5. My Neighbor Totoro
6. Kiki's Delivery Service
7. Princess Mononoke
8. Castle in the Sky
9. Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind
10. Howl's Moving Castle

Spirited Away is one of my favorite films of all time. My whole top 4 is pretty amazing as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Armorian]

Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle, in that order.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

this is so hard! i really love so many of his films and have seen many of them in the theater.

the Black Lips named their second album after dialog from the movie: "We did not know the forest spirit made the flowers grow". i used to live with the singer around that time and we used to get high and watch the movie. there may have been some acid involved. the animation is so sick. the story is great. the focus on nature is wonderful, it is one of the most beautifully animated films of all time.

i love so many of his films, Totoro, Kiki, Castle in the Sky, Nausica, Ponyo. Howl i remember watching in the theater days after breaking up with my girlfriend and it was very sad and profound.

my favorite of all will always be Spirited Away though. it is just so strange and dreamlike. a true modern Alice in Wonderland. i love how Miyazaki celebrates old spirituality and folklore throughout his movies, and this was chock full of magical things happening constantly.

i remember seeing it in the theater tripping on mushrooms. i was convinced it was a pro-proletariat anti-capitalism movie at the time, what with her parents turning into pigs that just wanted to eat, and her having to work scrubbing the shit from the rich people's bath house. then the sludge monster who starts out really nice and then slowly gets greedy and eventually goes on the giant rampage eating people who are throwing gold at him.... holy fuck, this movie is great. Miyazaki is a true legend and can craft the classic style fantasy stories, up there with the best of Mother Goose and Grimm fairy tales.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Mononoke... by far

He's got it

 

[Papa]

Spirited Away #1

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Spirited Away is in my Top 10 movies of all-time, that's my vote

 

[888]

Never seen any of them. Guess I should watch one.

 

[Tesseract]

castle in the sky

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Nausicaa is pretty dope

 

[Thing on a Spring]

I wanted to pick Grave of the Fireflies but I'll settle for Spirited Away.

 

[Thing on a Spring]

You hush your mouth Matt. Totoro is great and all, I named a cat after it but lets face it, Grave of the Fireflies is the superior movie.I'll meet you in the playground, 3 O'Clock High!

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Did someone call me?

 

[mcjmetroid]

Mononoke by far. It's the movie to show movie buffs to prove to them how badass and mature anime can be.

It's truly amazing.

 

[Rentahamster]

I liked the one with the funky looking hamster creatures.

 

[Urprobablyright]

I like.. pom poko (might be the one post #18 is referring to) porco rosso... But really they're all faaantastic. Kiki is my Japanese girlfriend's.. ticket to peace lol

 

[Mr Hyde]

Nausicaä, Totoro and Spirited Away.

 

[ClanOfNone]

While I vaguely remember watching Nausicaa as a kid, I didn't know anything about Miyazaki or Ghibli at the time.
Many moons later I accidentally caught Spirited Away at like one in the morning on Cartoon Network one night, and I was legit amazed by it.

 

[Handel]

Mononoke is a masterpiece, in my top ten films of all time. It's a grand epic in scale, but a character drama at it's core, and Ashitaka as a main character makes it all work. Thinking about it just now, I wouldn't be surprised if Demon Slayer's Tanjiro was modeled after him, a strong but extremely compassionate hero.

 

[Kittehkraken]

Porco Rosso.

 

[Despera]

Haven't seen Porko rosso or Nausicaa, but Spirited Away for sure out of the rest.

Best ghibli film though is Princess Kaguya. Not as imaginative but a really profound use of folklore to drive home an idea.

 

[Doom85]

Spirited Away, but I'm sad that his Lupin the 3rd film isn't on here (since the thread specified just Miyazaki, not Ghibli), it's a great film.

I wanted to pick Grave of the Fireflies but I'll settle for Spirited Away.

Miyazaki didn't do Grave of the Fireflies.

 

[Thing on a Spring]

Spirited Away, but I'm sad that his Lupin the 3rd film isn't on here (since the thread specified just Miyazaki, not Ghibli), it's a great film.



Miyazaki didn't do Grave of the Fireflies.

That would explain that then

 

[Mato]

Spirited Away. I feel nostalgic about it since it's the movie that got me into Ghibli films. But I appreciate all Ghibli movies and consider them incredibly good looking.

 

[T8SC]

Not seen any, I'll keep an eye on this thread to see which are the best to watch.

 

[Armorian]

Not seen any, I'll keep an eye on this thread to see which are the best to watch.

Start with Princess Mononoke, you will want to watch the rest after that and all of them are good.

 

[Makariel]

Thanks to Netflix I started to rewatch them all, will vote after this round of viewings

 

[Naibel]

It's a toss-up between Mononoke and Spirited Away. I watched those movies countless times throughout the years and never got bored of them. They're absolute masterpieces.

Porco Rosso, Kiki and Nausicaa are also pretty damn fantastic.

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

Watching Ponyo when you're drunk is an experience like I've never felt before. Made me drop a few tears