| A list of the top 5 anime movies of all time: | | | | makes it clear that the difficulty in answering moral |
| Kakurenbo | | | | problems is never easy and that life is not black and |
| A boy joins in a game of hide and seek in an | | | | white. The main hero of the story attempts to act as a |
| abandoned city near his town in hopes of reclaiming his | | | | medium or negotiator between the humans and the |
| lost sister, who played the game previously. At night, | | | | forest, meeting a mysterious and beautiful girl raised by |
| however, demons come out to capture and use the | | | | wolves, along the way. |
| children to power their town. The film portrays a | | | | Spirited Away |
| symbolic interpretation of Industry using natural beauty | | | | A girl is in the process of moving away to a new town |
| or value for their progress of their own agenda. | | | | with her parents when her father takes a shortcut. |
| Pokémon 4 | | | | The shortcut runs along a path in the forest and leads |
| Ideal for children, it combines the science fiction | | | | them to an abandoned theme park where the girl, |
| concept of time travel with the naturalistic aesthetic of | | | | Chihiro, wanders off to have many adventures in a |
| a beautiful forest for an environment. In the movie, Ash | | | | world of spirits. |
| and his friends attempt to save the time traveling | | | | Paprika |
| Pokémon, Celebi, from James and Jessie's ruthless | | | | Paprika is a tale that pushes the imagination to the limit, |
| descendant. | | | | as it speculates upon the possibility of a merging of the |
| Princess Mononoké | | | | 'real world' and the world of dreams. A technological |
| This anime depicts an age old struggle between man | | | | device is created by a boy genius that does just this, |
| and nature, intertwining awe-inspiring mythological or | | | | but when the device falls into malicious hands, a small |
| fantastical elements such as a Forest Spirit who | | | | group of heroes must push their own imaginations to |
| watches over the large forest that humans in a | | | | save their world. |
| nearby town are destroying for resources. The story | | | | |