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• Your Name

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  Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?

• Spirited Away

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  Chihiro must save her parents after they are turned into pigs at a mysterious and abandoned amusement park inhabited by spirits.

• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

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  After discovering her ability to leap through time has a negative effect on the people around her, high school student Makoto Konno will have to race against time to set things right.

• My Neighbor Totoro

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  In this classic tale of magic and adventure, children discover a new world in a tree trunk inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros, which can't be seen by adults.

• Weathering With You

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  After moving to Tokyo and enduring one rainy day after another, high school freshman, Hodaka Morishima walks down an alley and meets Hina, a bright and strong-­willed girl who has the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

• Grave of the Fireflies

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  After their house is firebombed and their family killed during WWII, two young Japanese children fight for survival, struggling to find food and shelter.

• The Wind Rises

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  An aviation-obsessed engineer named Jiro loves the science of flight, and he's finally created his dream plane. But Jiro's dreams come crashing down when he learns, to his horror, that his creation will be used for combat in World War II.

• Akira

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  A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.

• Tokyo godfathers

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  On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

• From Up on Poppy Hill

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  Two high schoolers find hope as they fight to save an old wartime-era clubhouse from destruction during the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

• Perfect Blue

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  From Satoshi Kon, this iconic psychological thriller has been hailed as one of the most important animated films of all time. A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan.

• Paprika

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  Reality and the dream world are on a collision course after a device that can record dreams is stolen from a psychiatric research facility.

• Howl's Moving Castle

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  Teenager Sophie works in her late father's hat shop in a humdrum town, but things get interesting when she's transformed into an elderly woman.

• Wolf Children.

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  A college student has children with a werewolf who dies soon after, leaving the mother to raise her unusual offspring in both society and the wild.

• A Silent Voice

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  A former class bully reaches out to the deaf girl he'd tormented in grade school. He feels unworthy of redemption but tries to make things right.

• Summer Wars

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  Kenji spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has. Until and encounter with the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, leads to the virtual adventure of a lifetime!

• When Marnie Was There

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  Sent to spend the summer in a sleepy seaside town, sickly Anna befriends a curious girl living in a deserted villa. But is their connection real?

• Whisper of the Heart

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  After learning that all her library books were previously borrowed by the same person, schoolgirl Shizuku sets out to meet him and follow her dreams.

• Vampire Hunter D

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  A young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.

• Ghost in the Shell

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  It is 2029, and a female cyborg hunts a hacker who robs humans of their memories.