Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema

June 8–August 31, 2024

All of Hayao Miyazaki’s feature films—environmental allegories, fantasy epics, and intimate family adventures—populated by a bestiary of snarling, grotesque demons and cute, cuddly sprites (appearances can be deceiving) are presented here in their original Japanese versions.

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  • Spirited Away © 2001 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NDDTM

  • Princess Mononoke © 1997 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, ND

  • The Wind Rises © 2013 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NDHDMTK

  • Kiki’s Delivery Service © 1989 Eiko Kadono/Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, N

  • My Neighbor Totoro © 1988 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli

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  • Princess Mononoke

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1997
    Saturday, June 8 4:00 PM

    In a long-ago Japan, a war is raging for the future of Earth, one that sets the animal kingdom against humanity, nature against pollution, and harmony against chaos. An epic cinematic experience.

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  • Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1979
    Sunday, June 9 4:30 PM

    Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film, based on a popular adventure serial, finds Lupin, a gentleman thief, trying to expose a counterfeiting plot, avoid Interpol, and rescue a damsel in distress.

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  • Spirited Away

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2001
    Saturday, June 15 4:00 PM

    In this celebrated Hayao Miyazaki fantasy, ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom. Joe Hisaishi’s exquisite score enhances a cinematic feast. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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  • Castle in the Sky

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1986
    Sunday, June 23 3:00 PM

    Two children become caught up in a race against both good-natured aerial pirates and ruthless government agents to claim the secrets of the castle in the sky in this tale inspired by Jules Verne and Gulliver’s Travels.

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  • Ponyo

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2008
    Saturday, June 29 4:30 PM

    In this ecstatic fairy tale inspired by The Little Mermaid, a five-year-old boy finds a goldfish that transforms into a little girl, the irrepressible Ponyo.

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  • Porco Rosso

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1992
    Saturday, July 6 5:00 PM

    A (literally) pig-headed pilot hunts air pirates over the late 1920s Adriatic Sea in this wartime adventure. “As beautifully drawn and colored as anything [Hayao Miyazaki]’s done” (Mike Hale, New York Times).

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  • My Neighbor Totoro

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1988
    Saturday, July 13 5:00 PM

    Two sisters encounter wood sprites, magical trees, and flying “catbuses” in this enchanting tale that has become one of the most beloved family films of all time.

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  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1984

    BAMPFA Collection

    Sunday, July 14 4:30 PM

    In Hayao Miyazaki’s stirring animated epic, a girl who is both soldier and scientist seeks to reconcile the last remnants of her still-warring species with the monstrous biological order overtaking Earth.

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  • Kiki’s Delivery Service

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1989
    Sunday, July 21 4:30 PM

    Thirteen-year-old witch Kiki leaves home and discovers a soaring independence as she masters her mother’s broom, even as she grapples with the same insecurities that trouble all adolescents.

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  • Howl’s Moving Castle

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2004
    Sunday, July 28 4:00 PM

    In an intricately rendered European storybook land, Sophie must help the mysterious magician Howl end both his own curse and an all-too-real war.

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  • The Wind Rises

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2013
    Saturday, August 3 4:00 PM

    Young Jiro dreams of flying but ends up designing warplanes instead in Hayao Miyazaki’s “devastatingly honest lament for the corruption of beauty” (David Ehrlich, IndieWire).

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  • The Boy and the Heron

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2023
    Saturday, August 10 4:00 PM

    Hayao Miyazaki’s self-proclaimed final film takes a maximalist approach to storytelling, as a pestering gray heron leads the sullen twelve-year-old Mahito deep into a realm of hallucinatory, time-bending fantasy.

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  • Spirited Away

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2001
    Saturday, August 17 4:00 PM

    In this celebrated Hayao Miyazaki fantasy, ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom. Joe Hisaishi’s exquisite score enhances a cinematic feast. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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  • My Neighbor Totoro

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1988
    Sunday, August 25 1:00 PM

    Two sisters encounter wood sprites, magical trees, and flying “catbuses” in this enchanting tale that has become one of the most beloved family films of all time.

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  • Princess Mononoke

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 1997
    Thursday, August 29 7:00 PM

    In a long-ago Japan, a war is raging for the future of Earth, one that sets the animal kingdom against humanity, nature against pollution, and harmony against chaos. An epic cinematic experience.

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  • The Wind Rises

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2013
    Saturday, August 31 3:00 PM

    Young Jiro dreams of flying but ends up designing warplanes instead in Hayao Miyazaki’s “devastatingly honest lament for the corruption of beauty” (David Ehrlich, IndieWire).

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