Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Sumi Shimamoto has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Warriors of the Wind.
Howl's Moving Castle
2004
Fantasy · Animation
Princess Mononoke
1997 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Max · Included
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Max · Included
Warriors of the Wind
1984 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Max · Included
Weathering with You
2019 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Max · Included
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
2011 · Movie · Voice
Top 45%Max · Included
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · With Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yuko Tanaka
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
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · With Sumi Shimamoto, Ichiro Nagai, Gorō Naya
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Dir. Makoto Shinkai · With Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda
Relaxing on a cozy beach, the Straw Hat Pirates are taking a rest from their quest. Right until Luffy noticed the Going Merry has been hijacked and sailed off from the beach. This leads them to search the ship and find the thief who took it from them. They ran into a duo named the Theif Brothers, who informed them that their ship was stolen by a group of pirates called the Trump Kyoudai. When they encountered the Trump Pirates, Nami ended up getting kidnapped as well as Luffy's hat. They tracked down the pirates to their base on Clockwork Island. Now Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, and the Theif Brothers must reclaim the Going Merry, Save Nami, and get back Shank's straw hat.
Dir. Junji Shimizu · With Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura
After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · With Yasuo Yamada, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Eiko Masuyama
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster and saved by a mysterious boy named Shun. However, Shun disappears and Asuna embarks on a journey of adventure to the land of Agartha with her teacher Mr. Morisaki to meet a Shun again. Through her journey she comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.
Dir. Makoto Shinkai · With Hisako Kanemoto, Kazuhiko Inoue, Miyu Irino
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