Well I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas...

[Kaido]

STOKED!

Studio Ghibli movies are finally available to purchase digitally — but missing a major title

Most Studio Ghibli movies are available to digitally purchase for the first time

www.theverge.com

My local movie theater has been doing Ghibli months this year, with a different Studio Ghibli movie every month. The art in Howl's Moving Castle was incredible to see on the big screen! And now the entire collection (almost) is available for streaming!

20 movies are available today, one next year, and one is TBD (The Wind Rises will be available next year, and Grave of the Fireflies is still TBD because of a rights issue):

1. Castle in the Sky
2. The Cat Returns
3. From Up on Poppy Hill
4. Howl’s Moving Castle
5. Kiki’s Delivery Service
6. My Neighbor Totoro
7. My Neighbors the Yamadas
8. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
9. Ocean Waves
10. Only Yesterday
11. Pom Poko
12. Ponyo
13. Porco Rosso
14. Princess Mononoke
15. The Secret World of Arrietty
16. Spirited Away
17. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
18. Tales From Earthsea
19. When Marnie Was There
20. Whisper of the Heart
21. The Wind Rises (in 2020)

I'd rather be a pig than a fascist.

 

[Brainonska511]

Awesome. I got my wife Howl's Moving Castle on Blu-ray a few months ago, after we saw it in a theater in her hometown. She loves these movies.

 

[JEDI]

saw Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

understood most of it.
liked it but the ending wrapped up too quickly and neatly.
all that build up and that simple scene resolves everything...

 

[BoomerD]

Santa came early...

 

[highland145]

I'm getting a Gardena and emperor 1 maple...😞

 

[FaaR]

understood most of it.
liked it but the ending wrapped up too quickly and neatly.
all that build up and that simple scene resolves everything...

You should read the manga, it's friggin' epic. Epic! It's easily one of the greatest graphic novels ever made I'd say. Not for the faint-hearted, though. It's very violent, and deeply disturbing at times. Definitely not a kids' comic, I'd say.

 

[ponyo]

saw Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

understood most of it.
liked it but the ending wrapped up too quickly and neatly.
all that build up and that simple scene resolves everything...

It's because the movie is only small portion of the book and they had to end the movie. The books are awesome and way more detailed and the story continues. I own the hardcover and softcover books and gave away bunch of hardcover copies as gift to friends. One of my favorite books.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1421550644/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[darkswordsman17]

Haven't they been out on Blu-ray for awhile? I'd definitely buy disc versions over digital. Of course it'd be even better if you got both when doings so. Which, that being said, I was honestly disappointed about how little they benefit from Blu-ray transfers. Many of the old Disney stuff was pretty spectacular when they got high quality transfers. I remember seeing screen caps of Sleeping Beauty and holy crap it looked astonishing. That's not to say Studio Ghibli's animation is bad, as that's not true (and its appealing, it just didn't bring an extra wow factor with higher quality transfers). And there's some wonkiness that is much more apparent on the Blu-ray transfers of newer Disney movies like the digital stuff in Beauty and the Beast (or even older ones, like the animation itself compared to the backgrounds, like in Sleeping Beauty - which if you see why that is you realize why the backgrounds were so frigging spectacular).

I will say I was a bit bothered by The Wind Rises. I get what he was going for, but I feel like its overshadowed by the reality, and thus just feels too much like its downplaying Japan's actions from that era. The romanticism was just really jarring to me, and seems weird how they tried to act like "well duh the Nazis were super terrible even we thought so" when I think you could probably easily make a comparison to various German persons, with Wernher Von Braun coming to mind (although I could also say that how the movie October Sky romanticized him had similar awkwardness), but I don't think you'd see someone making a movie glamorizing what they did during WWII and acting like they're just a simple engineer that just wanted to make cool stuff.