I've been on a bit of a Miyazaki/Ghibli kick recently. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Disney finally released the "Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind," "Porco Rosso," and "The Cat Returns" dvds last Tuesday (best deal so far: $24.99/ea at Zellers!). Naturally I bought all three, plus another three copies for gifts. =P
Anyway, I was looking at the list of Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, and related films on Nausicaa.net and I got interested in some of the pre-Ghibli, non-Ghibli, and unlicensed works they had listed. Since then I've been bittorrenting like mad! ^_^ Here's my list of some of the more obscure works, and where you can find them:
- Future Boy Conan [pre-Ghibli TV series] (1978) *sub* - World Masterpiece Theatre: Anne of Green Gables (Akage no Anne) [pre-Ghibli TV series] (1979) *sub*
There are, of course, still other works which I haven't yet found online that I'd really like to see--Isao TAKAHATA's c.1987 "Yanagawa Horiwari Monogatari" and Katsuya KONDOU's c.2000 "Umi no Ourora"--but I'm quite satisfied with what I've found so far. Plus there are still five more works to be released from the Disney-Tokuma deal: "Tonari no Yamada-kun" (My Neighbors the Yamadas), "Omohide Poro Poro" (Only Yesterday), "Tonari no Totoro" (My Neighbor Totoro), "Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pom Poko" ((Heisei-era Raccoon War) Pom Poko),and "Mimi wo Sumaseba" (Whisper of the Heart). And let's not forget "Howl's Moving Castle" (based on the book by Dianna Wynne Jones)!!!
