Best movies of Isao Takahata

Actors : Miki Imai, Mayumi Iizuka, Toshirô Yanagiba, Youko Honna,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.

Actors : Chloë Grace Moretz, Mary Steenburgen, James Marsden, James Caan,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

Actors : Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

Actors : Shinchô Kokontei, Yuriko Ishida, Norihei Miki, Makoto Nonomura,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.

Actors : Masako Araki, Hayato Isohata, Naomi Uno, Tôru Masuoka,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

The life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan.

Actors : Masao Mishima, Eijirô Tôno, Etsuko Ichihara, Mikijirô Hira,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A boy with a mythical sword wants to protect a Norse village from an evil ice wizard and his minions, who destroyed his family's village. However, the villagers don't fully trust him and a mysterious girl with a dark secret befriends him.

Actors : Fuyumi Shiraishi, Hideki Sasaki, Masashi Amenomori, Junji Chiba,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A cellist in a small orchestra receives help from animals to help him practice his music.

Actors : Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Yasushi Yokoyama, Chinatsu Nakayama, Norio Nishikawa,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

Chie Takemoto is a small dependable girl, who lives in Osaka with her dad. She has to goals - to get her troublesome father, who runs a tavern, some work and then get him to make up with her mother, who left him.

Actors : Eiko Yamada, Kitahara Fumie, Fumie Kitahara, Ryûji Saikachi,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she learns that sometimes you have to be a sensible person too; at the same time her unique character changes, or at ...

Actors : Randi Kiger, Janet Waldo, Vic Perrin, Billy Whitaker,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

Heidi (1974) Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo (now Nippon Animation) based on the Swiss novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880). It was directed by Isao ...