11. Kiki's Delivery Service ( Majo no takkyûbin )
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Debbie Reynolds, Phil Hartman, Janeane Garofalo, Tress MacNeille, Matthew Lawrence
Plot: A young witch sets off on her own for a year of training in a far-away city and finds adventure and challenges await.
12. Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The ( Toki o kakeru shôjo )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Actors: Riisa Naka, Emily Hirst, Takuya Ishida, Andrew Francis, Mitsutaka Itakura, Alex Zahara
Plot: A young girl finds she has the ability to go back in time and at first uses this ability to her advantage. But as she soon finds out, altering fate has its own consequences and as she realizes this ability is only temporary she races to fix everything she has altered.
13. Cowboy Bebop
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shinichirô Watanabe
Actors: Steven Jay Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee, Melissa Fahn, Jennifer Hale, Nicholas Guest
Plot: Three bounty hunters investigate a truck explosion in order to get an enormous bounty.
14. Whisper of the Heart ( Mimi wo sumaseba )
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Yoshifumi Kondo
Actors: Youko Honna, Kazuo Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Keiju Kobayashi
Plot: A young girl who reads a lot of fairy tales has a typical life, but something is missing. One day, on a whim, she follows a cat riding a train - this leads her to a chance meeting with a young boy who dreams of being a violin-maker and his grandfather's antique store where a statue of a cat gives her inspiration to follow her own dream: to write.
15. Paprika
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Satoshi Kon
Actors: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya, Kôichi Yamadera, Katsunosuke Hori, Toru Emori, Akio Ôtsuka
Plot: A new device allows scientists to delve into a patient's dreams to help them analyze their problems, but when a techno-terrorist steals the new technology no one is safe, and soon the line between dreams and reality begin to blur.
16. Secret World of Arrietty, The ( Kari-gurashi no Arietti )
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Actors: Will Arnett, Bridgit Mendler, David Henrie, Carol Burnett, Amy Poehler, Peter Jason
Plot: Studio Ghibli takes on the classic tale of The Borrowers: The 4-inch tall Clock family live in secret, borrowing items from human residences to make their home. However, things change when daughter Arrietty is discovered.
17. Ninja Scroll ( Jûbei ninpûchô )
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kevin Seymour
Actors: Richard Barnes, Dean Elliott, Richard Cansino, Richard Epcar, Wendee Lee, Dougary Grant
Plot: A traveling ninja for hire fights demons and their henchmen.
18. Perfect Blue
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Satoshi Kon
Actors: Bridget Hoffman, Wendee Lee, R. Martin Klein, Michael Lindsay, Richard Plantagenet, Jamieson Price
Plot: A retired pop idol begins a new career as a risque actress, but when she finds a website that has intimate details of her life, she begins to question her own life.
19. Tale of Princess Kaguya, The ( Kaguyahime no monogatari )
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Isao Takahata
Actors: Chloë Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Darren Criss, Lucy Liu, James Marsden
Plot: Based on the oldest surviving, and one of the most famous, Japanese folklore tales - an old man who makes a living selling bamboo comes across a princess, no bigger than his finger, in one of the plants. Named Kaguya, she grows and when she is of age, five suitors from five prestigious families come to propose. She requests five memorable wedding gifts - but each of the five men fails to bring her what she wants - then, the Emperor of Japan proposes as well.
20. Your Name. ( Kimi no na wa )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraish, Ryô Narita, Aoi Yuki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa
Plot: Two souls who couldn't be any further apart: Mitsuha Miyamizu is a girl living in a small mountain town where she yearns to get away from her small life, her father's electoral campaign and the superstitions that drive the community. Taki Tachiban lives a fast and busy life in Tokyo where he works part time at an Italian restaurant and strives for his dreams of becoming an artist or architect. When the two dream, a celestial bond causes them to switch bodies - and the possibilities and adventure it opens up will change their lives forever.
