Not so long time ago
Kinema Junpo, a Japanese academic film magazine, have announced on
september 20th top ten animated films on movie history. You can find out this list on their next special issue which is all about the animation on
amazon.japan.
First places on Japan category took Hayao Miyazaki's Lupin the Third - Castle of Cagliostro and foreign film category's first place went to Ben Sharpsteen Fantasy. There was total 67 votes from critics and cultural figures.
Japanese films:
1. Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
2. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States
5. AKIRA
6. Puss in Boots
7. Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
7. The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun
7. The Tale of the White Serpent
10. Summer Days with Coo
10. Summer Wars
10. Castle in the Sky
10. Grave of the Fireflies
Foreign Films:
1. Fantasy
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Snow White
4. Le Roi et l'oiseau
5. Hedgehog in the Fog
5. Mr. Bug Goes to Town
7. Toy Story
8. Up
8. The Man Who Planted Trees
10. Iron Giant
10. Wallace & Gromit Wallace & Gromit - The Wrong Trousers!
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Asahi ShimbunSo congrats Lupin
oh yeah I wanted to put this list also when we talk about the Kinema Kunpo Kinema Junpo's Top 100 Japanese Films of the 20th Century