Studio Ghibli : Japanese Animation Film Studio

Studio Ghibli : Japanese Animation Film Studio

Studio Ghibli,  is a Japanese animation film studio based in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. Originally part of Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co.,Ltd. Ghibli. Studio logo as its representative works "My Neighbor Totoro."  "Ghibli" was named by Director Hayao MIyazaki, meaning that the season of hot air in the Sahara Desert. Ghibli studio had produce their magazine from 2003 had known as "Hot Air". 

Spirited Away

Grave of the Fireflies

Film produced by Ghibli Studio

The studio founded in 1985 June 15, the studio is headed by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki. In prior, Miyazaki and Takahata had already had long careers in Japanese film and television animation and had worked together on " Hols: Prince of the Sun and Panda! Go, Panda!"; and Suzuki was an editor at Tokuma Shoten's Animage manga magazine. The studio has mainly produced films by Miyazaki, with the second most a Takahata most notably with"Grave of the Fireflies". Other directors who have worked with Studio Ghibli include Yoshifumi Kondo, Hiroyuki Morita, Gorō Miyazaki, and Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Composer Joe Hisaishi has provided the soundtracks for most of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films.

My Neighbor Totoro

The Wind Rise

Princess Mononoke

Howl's Moving Castle

In August 1996, Disney and Tokuma Shoten Publishing agreed that Disney would distribute internationally Tokuma's Studio Ghibli animated films. In 1999, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) were retrospective. Museum of Contemporary Art is the first held in the Japanese animation film based retrospective exhibition show. In 2005, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata MOCA also held the premiere of the work. In 2003 held in Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, "all are Ghibli Studio Ghibli stereolithography material exhibition," more than 22 million visitors. In 2004, Venice Film Festival awarded a Studio Ghibli awarded in recognition of their production of "Howl's Moving Castle."

Significant achievements

• The first real box-office success in Studio Ghibli's history: Kiki's Delivery Service.
• The highest-grossing film of 1989 in Japan: Kiki's Delivery Service
• The highest-grossing film of 1991 in Japan: Only Yesterday
• The highest-grossing film of 1992 in Japan: Porco Rosso
• The highest-grossing film of 1994 in Japan: Pom Poko
• The first Studio Ghibli film to use computer graphics: Pom Poko
• The first Japanese film in Dolby Digital: Whisper of the Heart
• The first Miyazaki feature to use computer graphics, and the first Studio Ghibli film to use digital coloring; the first animated feature in Japan's history to gross more than 10 billion yen at the box office and the first animated film ever to win a National Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year: Princess Mononoke
• The first Studio Ghibli film to be shot using a 100% digital process: My Neighbors the Yamadas
• The first Miyazaki feature to be shot using a 100% digital process; the first film to gross $200 million worldwide before opening in North America; the film to finally overtakeTitanic at the Japanese box office, becoming the top grossing film in the history of Japanese cinema; the only anime winner of an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and the only winner to be made outside the English-speaking world; the only traditionally animated winner, so far, of an Academy award for Best Animated Feature: Spirited Away