Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli is a renowned Japanese animation studios that sometimes works with Disney as a distributor. Studio Ghibli’s worst film in history has to be “Tales from Earthsea”. This film was made by Hayao Miyazaki's son, Goro Miyazaki, and it won Japan’s bunshun raspberry award for worst movie of 2006. It had been distributed by Disney and was the first Disney- distributed film to be rated PG-13 for having “violent images. Despite being the studios worst movie, in the movie’s first five weeks of release, “Tales from Earthsea” surpassed “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”. All because of the studios reputation for making quality movies, it had passed “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”.

Even though Studio Ghibli is a big studio, they like to keep their word and ways strict. They have a special “no cuts” policy. It’s so strict that when they sent the movie to the states, they also sent a katana with a message “no cuts” to Miramax when they were trying to make the movie more suitable to the states. To me that is something special. That means that they send the movies just as they want it and we get a nice motion picture with originality.

The start of Studio Ghibli is named after a World War II Italian plane named sirocco. Sirocco is pronounced “Ji-bu-ri” in Japanese. Doesn't make sense to me, but it’s originally pronounced with a hard G. Even though the pronunciation doesn’t make sense, the studio's name means “Mediterranean wind” because the studio wanted “Blow a new wind through the Japanese industry”. They have achieved their new wind as these movies have been loved for over 30 years since they started the studio up in 1985.

In my personal experience, I have no met a single person who did not like their movies. I show them to my girlfriend and she loves each one more than the last one. Their emotional connection to the viewer is big and I think that is big for multiple movies to do. In conclusion I have to say to watch some of their movies and live with that experience.

-Terran Freeman