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Get ‘Spirited Away’ with Studio Ghibli’s film catalogue available for rent on digital for the first time

There are 22 movies in all available for rent.

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Studio Ghibli is responsible for some of the most offbeat, inventive, and entertaining animated movies of all time. The movies Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle are bonafide animated classics that give Pixar and Disney a run for their money. The main problem with Studio Ghibli’s movies was always that they were hard to rent online.

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All that has changed now that GKIDS, a company specializing in distributing animation, has made the entire Studio Ghibli catalog available for digital rent, according to Variety. The movies will be available on streaming services like Amazon VOD, Apple TV, Microsoft, and Google Play.

All of the titles are presented in HD with the option of original Japanese or English voiceover. Previously, the Walt Disney Company handled the distribution of Studio Ghibli movies, and they were not available to rent. GKIDS marks the catalog as one of the main tenets of its business since it acquired the rights to the movies in 2011 and home media rights in 2017.

Here’s a list of the movies available to rent:

  1. Castle in the Sky
  2. The Cat Returns
  3. Earwig and the Witch
  4. From Up on Poppy Hill
  5. Howl’s Moving Castle
  6. Kiki’s Delivery Service
  7. My Neighbor Totoro
  8. My Neighbors the Yamadas
  9. Ocean Waves
  10. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  11. Only Yesterday
  12. Pom Poko
  13. Ponyo
  14. Porco Rosso
  15. Princess Mononoke
  16. The Secret World of Arrietty
  17. Spirited Away
  18. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
  19. Tales from Earthsea
  20. When Marnie Was There
  21. Whisper of the Heart
  22. The Wind Rises

Studio Ghibli dates back to 1985 and was started by two directors and a producer: Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki, and Toshio Suzuki. The most popular films from the studio, like Spirited Away, Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Princess Mononoke, are four of the top-grossing films in Japan of all time.