Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away opens in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki's story of a young girl trapped in a spirit world after her parents are turned into pigs.
Studio Ghibli's original film opened Jul 20, 2001; 2 hr 4 min, licensed by Disney and GKIDS[1]
10-year-old Chihiro Ogino, on the way to a new house, finds an abandoned amusement park; her parents are turned into pigs and she crosses into the spirit world, where she must work among spirits, helped by Haku, to save them and return home[1]
Held the record as highest-grossing film in Japanese history from 2001 until 2020; as of December 2020, 31.68 billion yen at the Japanese box office and $395.8 million worldwide[1]
Won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003 and the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival; English dub by Walt Disney Pictures premiered in 2002[1]
MAL score 8.77 (about 1.43 million users), ranked #48 at capture[1]
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CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE88%38.4 years agoJapanese theatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Grave of the Fireflies opens in Japanese theaters, a Studio Ghibli war drama following two orphaned siblings, Seita and his young sister Setsuko, struggling to survive in the final months of World War II.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE84%31.2 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Studio Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart releases in Japanese theaters, a coming-of-age story following bookish schoolgirl Shizuku as she chases a mysterious cat and discovers her own ambitions as a writer.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE84%14.8 years agoJapanese theatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1]/AniList listing.
K-ON!: The Movie releases in Japanese theaters, sending the Light Music Club's graduating members on one last overseas trip to London before they part ways.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE86%16.6 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Kyoto Animation's The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya opens in Japanese theaters, finding Kyon alone remembering the SOS Brigade after Haruhi, Mikuru, and Itsuki vanish from an altered world where none of them ever existed.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE82%3.9 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Makoto Shinkai's Suzume opens in Japanese theaters, following a teenage girl who joins a mysterious young man in closing doors across Japan that unleash disaster when left open.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE85%21.8 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle opens in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki's adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones's novel about a young hatmaker cursed into an old woman's body who takes refuge with a wizard in his walking castle.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE79%15.0 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Brain's Base's Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light opens in Japanese theaters, a short supernatural romance following a girl named Hotaru and Gin, a forest spirit she can never touch, across their summers together.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE91%5.7 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Bandai Namco Pictures's Gintama: THE VERY FINAL opens in Japanese theaters, the third and concluding film in the Silver Soul arc as the Yorozuya and their allies make a final stand against the Tendoshuu and the ever-returning Utsuro.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE80%14.1 years agoTheatrical screening date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Sunrise's Gintama: Yorinuki Gintama-san on Theater 2D plays in select Japanese theaters, recutting the Shinsengumi Crisis and Kabukicho Four Devas TV arcs into a two-part movie presentation.
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CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE85%42.5 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Topcraft's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind releases in Japanese theaters, Hayao Miyazaki's post-apocalyptic adventure adapting his own manga about Princess Nausicaä's struggle to bridge humanity and a poisoned, insect-guarded wilderness.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE77%11.2 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast releases in Japanese theaters, an original story about an orphaned boy in Shibuya who is taken in and trained by a gruff warrior beast in a hidden world.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE80%9.0 years agoTheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Haikyu!! The Movie: Talent and Sense opens in Japanese theaters, a Production I.G compilation film revisiting Karasuno's match against Aoba Johsai with new footage, released as a same-day double feature with its companion film.
