Short films by Studio Ghibli

Did You Know?

• The song "On Your Mark" was used in advertisements for NEC.
• Iblard Jikan's paintings of Iblard inspired the fantasy sequences of Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart.

Music videos

Studio Ghibli and its subsidiary Studio Kajino have created a number of music videos. In 1995, animator Hayao Miyazaki produced an entirely animated music video for the song "On Your Mark" by the Japanese rock duo Chage & Aska, at their request. The video has no dialogue, runs about six and a half minutes, and was shown at the theatrical release of Whisper of the Heart in Japan. It tells the story of two policemen in a possible near future who rescue a young girl with wings from a religious cult and then from their own government.

Short films

Studio Ghibli short films have premiered on television, in theaters (usually debuting with a full-length film from the studio), at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, and directly to home video formats such as DVD and Blu-ray. Ghiblies is a 12-minute short anime comedic film that aired on NTV on April 8, 2000, directed by Yoshiyuki Momose and produced by Hiroyuki Watanabe. A 25-minute sequel, Ghiblies Episode 2, was released in theaters with The Cat Returns on July 19, 2002.

Momose wrote the script and directed the sequel, with assistance directing from Eiichirō Tashiro and Chika Matsumura. Manto Watanabe, drummer for the Okinawan band Shang Shang Typhoon, created the music. Other staff included art director Noboru Yoshida, original character designer Toshio Suzuki, and special character designer Hisaichi Ishii. It was released on home video in North America as bonus content with Ocean Waves by GKIDS in 2017.

Before that, GKIDS streamed the clip with English subtitles in United States' theaters along with the 15th anniversary screenings of Spirited Away in December 2016. Film Guru Guru is an anime short film series shown at the Ghibli Museum from October 1, 2001, through November 17, 2008, directed by Hayao Miyazaki with storyboards by Miyazaki and Hiromasa Yonebayashi (who also produced). Nonaka-kun: Masahiko Nishimura, Yukari-san: Kyōka Suzuki, Oku-chan: Arata Furuta, Toku-san: Satoru Satō, Hotaru-chan: Tomoe Shinohara, Hikari-chan: Koji Imada, Toshi-chan: Kaoru Kobayashi is an animated 2002 short film produced for near exclusive use in the Ghibli Museum, featuring Hayao Miyazaki as narrator in the form of a humanoid pig.

The Night of Taneyamagahara is an anime short film directed by Kazuo Oga and released by Studio Ghibli, with a DVD version released for Japan on July 7, 2006, based on a work by Kenji Miyazawa. Iblard Jikan is a Japanese animation by Studio Ghibli, released in Japan on DVD and Blu-ray on July 4, 2007, as part of the "Ghibli ga Ippai Collection," directed by Naohisa Inoue and set in the imaginary world of Iblard originally depicted in his paintings.

Ghibli Museum and Ghibli Park exclusive short films

Ten short films were produced for and are exclusively shown on rotation at the Saturn Theater at the Ghibli Museum and the Orion Theater at Ghibli Park. A 2001 short film with a running time of 16 minutes is drawn in a different, simpler style compared to other Studio Ghibli films, using bright pastel colors. Kujiraori tells the story of school children playing that they're building a boat; as imagination replaces reality, they find themselves on the ocean hunting for a whale, and a big, gentle whale accompanies them back to land and plays with them before the fantasy ends.

The film was shown at the 2002 New York International Children's Film Festival and won the Ōfuji Noburō Award at the Mainichi Film Award in 2001. Koro's Big Day Out is a 2002 short film written and directed by Miyazaki with a running time of 15 minutes. Mizugumo Monmon is a 2006 Japanese animated short film produced by Studio Ghibli, based in part on "Boro, the Caterpillar," a story idea Hayao Miyazaki considered working on prior to Princess Mononoke; its main character is a diving bell spider who seems to have fallen in love with a water strider.

Hoshi o Katta Hi is an animated 2006 short film based on a story by Naohisa Inoue, about a boy who lives and works on a farm and receives a strange seed that grows into a miniature planet. Looking for a House debuted in January 2006 and is 12 minutes long.