The best Japanese animation films

If you want to learn Japanese, we encourage you to start by watching the odd Japanese animated film to fully immerse yourself in the language and its culture before traveling or going to work in Japan.

What if you start learning Japanese with animated movies?: The best Japanese animation films

Japan is not a country marked solely by pop culture, video games, origami, and martial arts. Cartoons are also very well known .
Surely you have already heard or are familiar with Ghibli studios and its producer Hayao Miyazaki. Not? Haven’t you seen any of his movies? See if any of these great Japanese animated film hits sound familiar to you:
The castle in the sky.
My neighbor Totoro.
Porco rosso
Princess mononoke
Spirited Away
Howl’s Moving Castle
Miyazaki’s films often address topics such as childhood, war, ecology, or human stupidity. The female characters play a very relevant role and the scenarios go beyond the stereotypes of the good guys against the bad guys.
But Japanese animated films don’t stop there. You can also discover this beautiful language with great works such as:
The fireflies’s grave.
Akira.
Paprika.
Perfect Blue.
Ghost in the Shell.
The history of the manga is present in most of these animated films. A great way to discover life in Japan.