Like Spirited Away, but for adults
The wonder and strangeness of Spirited Away — but animation and fantasy that sit with darker, more adult emotions.
Princess Mononoke
1997Miyazaki at his most morally complex — war, nature, no easy villains
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Grave of the Fireflies
1988Animation as gut-punch — the most devastating anti-war film ever made
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Waltz with Bashir
2008Animated memoir of war and repressed trauma — utterly unlike anything else
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Persepolis
2007Coming-of-age through revolution — intimate, witty, and quietly heartbreaking
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The Tale of Princess Kaguya
2013Hand-drawn and ancient, it builds to one of cinema's most beautiful endings
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