Whether it’s invoking tears of joy or tears of devastation, Ghibli movies can make it happen.

They have a tearful reunion to double-check their hospitalized mother is alright.

She loses nearly everything when she’s already lost so much.

Jack Quaid looking shocked as Josh in Companion

The journey is fantastical and daunting as Chihiro comes across intensely frightening forces.

Thankfully, she has Haku as a friend and guide.

His early fascination with aircraft follows a fantasy of building beautiful and aerodynamic planes.

Michael B Jordan as Smoke carving a stake in Sinners.

His fascination turns into a career of brilliant engineering as Jiro is caught up in designing fighter planes.

After an asthma attack, she’s sent to live with her foster parent’s relatives.

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John Krasinski standing in front of a private jet in Jack Ryan season 4

Split image of Studio Ghibli characters

Kiki and Gigi’s new family in Kiki’s Delivery Service

Mei and Satsuke on the catbus in My Neighbor Totoro

A still from Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday.

Last shot of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Last shot of Laputa in Castle in the Sky

A still from Studio Ghibli’s movie The Secret World of Arrietty.

Howl and Sophie Sharing a Kiss in Howl’s Moving Castle

Chihiro and family return to the human world in Spirited Away

The titular character from Studio Ghiblii’s Princess Mononoke.

Naoko’s memory in The Wind Rises

A still from the Studio Ghibli movie Pom Poko.

Marnie as a new mother looking at her baby in When Marnie was There

Princess Kaguya is taken away in The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Seita and Setsuko sit side by side in Grave of the Fireflies

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