Chika Sakamoto’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Chika Sakamoto has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including My Neighbor Totoro.
Recurring themes

Kiki's Delivery Service
1989
Animation · Family

The Secret World of Arrietty
2010
Fantasy · Animation

The King and the Mockingbird
1980
Animation · Family

The Flight of Dragons
1982
Animation · Fantasy

The Indian in the Cupboard
1995
Adventure · Family

The Ballad of Nessie
2011
Animation · Family

La luna
2012
Animation · Family

The Hobbit
1977
Family · Fantasy

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · With Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Hitoshi Takagi

Tai is now a university student, living alone, working hard at school, and working every day, but with his future still undecided. Meanwhile, Matt and others continue to work on Digimon incidents and activities that help people with their partner Digimon. When an unprecedented phenomenon occurs, the DigiDestined discover that when they grow up, their relationship with their partner Digimon will come closer to an end.
Dir. Tomohisa Taguchi · With Natsuki Hanae, Mao Ichimichi, Suzuko Mimori
Kuro is just an ordinary cat who only wants to protect his owners who are an old couple that can't fend for themselves. One day while on a date with his girlfriend Pooly who is a dog, he is kidnapped by an evil scientist and turned into a robot. Kuro somehow removes the chip that controlled him and notices that people get scared with his new robotic appearance and that he can now talk like a human. He decides to disguise himself with the skin of a stuffed toy and to continue living as a pet.
With Chika Sakamoto, Chiharu Tezuka, Yuuko Sasamoto

It's the year 2020. The Network has become something humans can no longer do without in their daily lives. But what humans don't know is that on the other side of the Network is the Digital World, a realm of light and darkness. Nor are they aware of the Digimon who live there. Fifth grader Taichi Yagami's mother and little sister Hikari went to Shibuya, and now they're aboard a runaway train. Taichi hurries to Shibuya to save his mother and sister, but the instant he heads toward the station platform... a strange phenomenon befalls the DigiDestined, and Taichi goes to the Digital World!
With Yuko Sanpei, Chika Sakamoto, Daisuke Namikawa