Nippon Television Archives

Porco Rosso (1992)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 14, 2004Anime/Talking Pig Aviator

Hayao Miyazaki in a more whimsical comedic mood with this story of the adventures of a talking pig aviator. Even when in a lighter vein, Miyazaki cannot help but fill the film with images of charm and considerable beauty

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Category: Fantasy

14 September 200413 January 2025 by Roog

One Missed Call (2003)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 25, 2004Haunted Cellphone Calls

Cult director Takashi Miike jumps aboard the J-horror fad of the 2000s and makes a Ringu copy that substitutes haunted videos for haunted cellphone calls. Two sequels and an English-language remake followed

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Ko Shibasaki

Category: Horror

25 July 200411 December 2025 by Roog

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 7, 2006Anime/Epic Fantasy

This Hayao Miyazaki film about a girl who becomes assistant to a mysterious magician is not quite in the same league as Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away but has the sublime beauty, eccentric characters and tender charms that all his work does

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Category: Fantasy

7 January 200621 March 2026 by Roog

One Missed Call 2 (2005)

Rating: ★

Oct 14, 2015Haunted Cellphone Calls

Sequel to the Japanese original, not the English-language remake. This quickly forgets about haunted phonecalls and becomes even more of a copy of Ring, the inspiration of the original, and fails at generating spooky atmosphere

Director: Renpei Tsukamoto

Actors: Mimura, Renji Ishibashi, Peter Ho, Asaka Seto

Category: Horror

14 October 20151 November 2024 by Roog

Wolf Children (2012)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 19, 2013Anime/Werewolf Children

Mamoru Hosoda proves himself as one of the major directors in anime with this tender, lovely and enormously affecting work about a mother raising two werewolf children.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

Category: Fantasy

19 October 20138 May 2026 by Roog