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Ryunosuke Kamiki has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Spirited Away.
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The Boy and the Beast
2015
Action · Adventure

Mirai
2018
Animation · Family

How to Train Your Dragon
2010
Fantasy · Adventure

The Legend of Hei
2019
Animation · Fantasy

Patema Inverted
2013
Animation · Science Fiction

Salma's Big Wish
2019
Animation · Family

Big Fish & Begonia
2016
Animation · Adventure

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014
Animation · Romance

Spirited Away
2001 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Max · Included

Your Name.
2016 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Max · Included

Howl's Moving Castle
2004 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Max · Included

Godzilla Minus One
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included

The Secret World of Arrietty
2010 · Movie · Voice
Top 2%Max · Included

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Netflix · Included

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · With Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
Dir. Makoto Shinkai · With Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · With Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
Dir. Takashi Yamazaki · With Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi · With Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Tomokazu Miura

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
Dir. Keishi Otomo · With Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Munetaka Aoki

The war between the Levamme Empire and the Amatsukami Imperium has been raging for years. In the midst of this struggle, the prince of the Levamme Empire declares his love for Juana del Moral and vows to end the war in one year, as part of his marriage proposal. When the Amatsukami catch wind of this, they assault the del Moral residence, targeting Juana's life. As a last-ditch effort to bring the prince his bride, the San Maltilia Airforce employs a mercenary of mixed blood—a bestado—to fly Juana to the prince in secret.
Dir. Jun Shishido · With Haruka, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Daisuke Ono

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
Dir. Takashi Miike · With Sota Fukushi, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hirona Yamazaki

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.
Dir. Makoto Shinkai · With Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.
Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hitomi Miyauchi, Mitsuki Tanimura

as Koichi Hirose
Prime Video · Rent
Welcome to idyllic Morioh, whose ocean views and charming townscapes make it a breezy Japanese utopia. But a chain of grisly killings has cast a bloody pall of uncertainty over its residents, especially Josuke Higashikata, a high schooler with offbeat hair and even more eccentric abilities. Now, with his grandfather on Morioh’s homicide list, Josuke must resort to his surreal “Stand” powers if he ever hopes to heal his beloved family and town. Josuke may have a Stand-wielding relative at his side, but the killer has plenty of help too.
Dir. Takashi Miike · With Kento Yamazaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yūsuke Iseya

Shuhei Amamiya transfers to Moriwaki Elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn't take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest. Igniting his meeting with an equally enigmatic child, Kai Ichinose, who seems to be the only one capable getting sound out of the thought to be broken piano.
Dir. Masayuki Kojima · With Aya Ueto, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mayuko Fukuda

Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange flower and an old broom, none of which is as ordinary as it seems.
Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi · With Yuki Amami, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hana Sugisaki
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