The landmark deal with North American distributor GKIDS for the twenty-one Studio Ghibli feature films marks the first time these beloved films have been licensed to a streaming platform.Īvailable at launch of HBO Max, will be the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Ponyo, Castle in the Sky, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya and more. HBO Max will be the US streaming home to the entire Studio Ghibli film library, one of the world’s most coveted and revered animation catalogues. However it has now been announced by AT&T’s new streaming service, HBO Max, that Studio Ghibli movies will be part of its slate of premium content that will be available at launch in the spring of 2020. A teenage girl rescues a mysterious cat from traffic and soon finds herself the unwelcome recipient of gifts and favors from The Cat King (Tetsurô Tanba and Tim Curry), who also wants her to marry his son, Prince Lune (Takayuki Yamada and Andrew Bevis). Neko no ongaeshi, lit.the cats repayment) is a 2002 japanese animated fantasy film directed by hiroyuki morita, produced by toshio suzuki and nozomu takahashi, written by reiko yoshida, based on the manga the cat returns by aoi hiiragi, with music by yuji nomi, animated by studio ghibli for tokuma shoten.

Only recently it was reported that the Studio Ghibli movies would never be available on a digital or streaming platform, as they wanted people to see the movies in theatres. One of the most frequency asked questions about Disney+ has been about the availability of the Studio Ghibli movies, such as Spirited Away, which Disney released in cinemas and on home video in the United States until 2017.

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