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Founded in June 1985, Studio Ghibli is headed by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki. Prior to the formation of the studio, Miyazaki and Takahata had already had long careers in Japanese film and television animation and had worked together on Hols: Prince of the Sun and Panda! Go, Panda!; and Suzuki was an editor at Tokuma Shoten's Animage magazine.

The studio was founded after the success of the 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, written and directed by Miyazaki for Topcraft and distributed by Toei Company. The origins of the film lie in the first two volumes of a serialized manga written by Miyazaki for publication in Animage as a way of generating interest in an anime version. Suzuki was part of the production team on the film and founded Studio Ghibli with Miyazaki, who also invited Takahata to join the new studio.

The studio has mainly produced films by Miyazaki, with the second most prolific director being Takahata (most notably with Grave of the Fireflies). Other directors who have worked with Studio Ghibli include Yoshifumi Kondo, Hiroyuki Morita, Gorō Miyazaki, and Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Composer Joe Hisaishi has provided the soundtracks for most of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films. In their book Anime Classics Zettai!, Brian Camp and Julie Davis made note of Michiyo Yasuda as "a mainstay of Studio Ghibli’s extraordinary design and production team".

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Aoi Teshima (手嶌葵, Teshima Aoi, born June 21, 1987 in Hakata, Fukuoka) is a Japanese singer and voice actor. While she went to C&S Music Academy in Fukuoka, she began a music career as an amateur in 2003. In March 2005, she acted in "Japan-Korea slow music's world" in South Korea and her performance was favorably received among the audience. Her performance attracted the attention of anime director Gorō Miyazaki. Toshio Suzuki was also very impressed when he listened to her demo version of Bette Midler's "The Rose"

On June 7, 2006, she finally released a song called "Therru's Song" (テルーの唄, Terū no Uta). This song was used in a film directed by Gorō Miyazaki Tales from Earthsea (ゲド戦記, Gedo Senki), in which she also voices the character Therru.^{[citation needed]}. On July 29 of the same year, the film was shown in Japan after releasing her song.

She was featured singing for two songs of a Nintendo Wii game, Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon. The first song is called "Light" (光, Hikari), while the ending one is titled "Warmth of the Moon" (月のぬくもり, Tsuki no Nukumori).

She once again collaborated with Gorō Miyazaki on his second feature From up on Poppy Hill (コクリコ坂から, Kokuriko-zaka kara) singing Summer of Goodbye, the main theme of the movie and other songs in the film, as well as voiceing the character Yuko.

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When Marnie Was There (思い出のマーニー, Omoide no Marnie, lit. "Memories of Marnie") is a 2014 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by Studio Ghibli, and based on the novel When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson. It was released on 19 July 2014. It was the final film for Studio Ghibli before they announced that the film division is taking a short hiatus after the box office disappointment of The Tale of Princess Kaguya, and the retirement of Hayao Miyazaki a year before the film was released.

The film opens to a 12-year-old girl named Anna, sitting alone on a park bench, sketching in incredible detail a scene of children playing on the playground equipment as part of a school assignment. Looking over and comparing herself to a group of girls laughing and talking amongst themselves on another bench while sketching the same assignment, she goes into a soliloquies, "There is a magical circle in this world that no one can see. Those girls are in the circle, and then there's me, on the outside. But I don't care about any of that. I hate myself," and begins to cough, goes into excruciating pain, then collapses.

She is then taken home, and is looked at by a doctor. A woman, Yoriko, reveals that Anna suffers from asthma and that she doesn’t have any friends because she is very quiet, and closed-off to others. Yoriko explains to the doctor that it seems like she doesn't know who Anna is anymore, because she used to be so happy and full of emotion, but is now always making the same, emotionless face. In order to help Anna, Yoriko decides it's best to put her on a train and send her away from the polluted air of her home city of Sapporo, to a small village on the shores of northern Hokkaido and have her stay with her relatives, Kiyomasa and Setsu for the summer.

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Gauche the Cellist (セロ弾きのゴーシュ, Sero Hiki no Gōshu, also transliterated Gorsch the Cellist or Goshu the Cellist) is a short story by the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa. It is about Gauche, a struggling small town cellist who is inspired by his interactions with anthropomorphized animals to gain insight into music. The story has been translated into English, Italian and Spanish, and was adapted into a critically acclaimed anime in 1982 by Isao Takahata. It had previously been adapted to the screen several times.

Gauche is a diligent but mediocre cellist who plays for a small town orchestra The Venus Orchestra (金星音楽団, Kinsei Ongaku Dan) and the local cinema in the early 20th century. He struggles during rehearsals and is often berated by his conductor during preparations for an upcoming performance of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony (the Pastoral Symphony). Over the course of four nights, Gauche is visited at his mill house home by talking animals as he is practicing.

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Photo showing Aeon Cinema Rinkū Sennan. The interior shows large panels displaying the history of Studio Ghibli works.

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Feature film releases

1998 - Grave of the Fireflies
1988 - My Neighbor Totoro

Short film releases

2000 - Ghiblies, TV short film which aired on NTV

Other publication releases

1978 - Future Boy Conan, directed by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, begins airing on NHK
2013 - Princess Mononoke is adapted to the stage by Whole Hog Theatre in London, England

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