The Tale of Princess Kaguya is the Ghibli retelling of the classic Japanese folktale of a bamboo cutter finding a tiny girl and dubbing her “Princess.” This is a pretty recent release as far as Ghibli films go, and that's a big part as to why many of the survey-takers hadn’t seen it yet. It just hasn’t had enough time to permeate its way through the masses.

When Marnie was There is another film that suffers from being a recent release, but is up for a 2016 Academy Award.

This film served as the precursor to My Neighbor Totoro, and has the opposite problem of the previous films: it’s too old. Hmm… can we smell a Ghibli DVD re-release on the horizon?

And then we get My Neighbors the Yamadas, which suffers from both being an older film, and not being that great either. The animation style is such a departure from other Ghibli movies that it didn’t do well at the box office, and people aren’t exactly excited to watch it on their own.

If you haven't heard of Ocean Waves, there's a good reason: it’s the only Studio Ghibli film that hasn’t gotten an an English-language release yet! (Old-school fansub collectors may know it as I Can Hear the Sea).

It should also be noted that Hayao Miyazaki did not direct this film, and much of the animation was done by outside companies in an effort to produce it quickly, cheaply, and with quality… even though it went both over-schedule and over-budget.

So there you have it, the Top 10 Ghibli films that Japanese college students haven’t seen. But what about you? Have you seen them all?

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