Yes, I'm Hayao Miyazaki's fan!

I've collected most of the Studio Ghibli's anime/movies.  Started to fall in love with all the movies when EMB bought "Spirited Away" - directed by Hayao Miyazaki.  Award winning at the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival.  I have friends that also fans of Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli.  We exchange Dvd's, & keep updated to any Ghibli's new movie. 

Here's are the list of my collection except for no. 18 & 19....haven't got chance yet to buy!  (source:  WIKIPEDIA)

#	Film	Original release date	Director	IMDB rating	Rotten Tomatoes Rating	Budget (in USD$)	Gross (in USD$)
1	Castle in the Sky	August 2, 1986	Hayao Miyazaki	8.1	94%	N/A	N/A
2	Grave of the Fireflies	April 16, 1988	Isao Takahata	8.4	96%	N/A	N/A
3	My Neighbor Totoro	April 16, 1988	Hayao Miyazaki	8.2	90%	N/A	N/A
4	Kiki's Delivery Service	July 29, 1989	Hayao Miyazaki	7.8	100%	$6.9 million	$18,172,849
5	Only Yesterday	July 20, 1991	Isao Takahata	7.7	-	N/A	N/A
6	Porco Rosso	July 18, 1992	Hayao Miyazaki	7.8	100%	N/A	N/A
7	Ocean Waves	May 3, 1993	Tomomi Mochizuki	7.2	-	N/A	N/A
8	Pom Poko	July 16, 1994	Isao Takahata	7.4	83%	N/A	$34,200,000
9	Whisper of the Heart	July 15, 1995	Yoshifumi Kondō	7.9	89%	N/A	N/A
10	Princess Mononoke	July 12, 1997	Hayao Miyazaki	8.4	93%	$23.5 million	$159,375,308
11	My Neighbors the Yamadas	July 17, 1999	Isao Takahata	7.4	67%	N/A	N/A
12	Spirited Away	July 27, 2001	Hayao Miyazaki	8.6	97%	$19 million	$274,925,095
13	The Cat Returns	July 19, 2002	Hiroyuki Morita	7.2	94%	N/A	$50,590,057
14	Howl's Moving Castle	November 20, 2004	Hayao Miyazaki	8.1	86%	$24 million	$231,711,096
15	Tales from Earthsea	July 29, 2006	Gorō Miyazaki	6.5	42%	$22 million	$68,673,565
16	Ponyo	July 19, 2008	Hayao Miyazaki	7.7	92%	$34 million	$201,750,937
17	The Secret World of Arrietty	July 17, 2010	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	7.7	93%	$23 million	$126,368,084
18	From up on Poppy Hill	July 16, 2011	Gorō Miyazaki	7.3	-	N/A	N/A
19	The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter[8]	Summer 2013[9][10]	Isao Takahata	-	-	N/A	N/A

There's one movie called Howl's Moving Castle based on novel by Diana Wynne Jones.  Soon after I watched that movie, I urged EMB to buy me that novel.  Been searching for that novel at local bookstore but couldn't get it.  At last, EMB found it at the Amazon.com & ordered one for me. 

pic from google

Plot summary (source:wikipedia)

A young woman named Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three daughters living in the town of Market Chipping in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where many fairy-tale tropes are accepted ways of life. She is very deft with the needle and makes the most beautiful hats and dresses. She unknowingly talks life into objects. As the eldest, she is resigned to the "fact" that she will have no chance of finding her fortune, accepting that she will have a dull life running the family hat shop—until she is turned into an old crone by the Witch of the Waste, a powerful witch who was not satisfied by Sophie's hats. Sophie leaves the shop and finds work as a cleaning lady for the notorious Howl, famed in her town for eating the hearts of beautiful young women, trying to make a bargain to be returned to her authentic age.
Sophie soon learns that Howl, a rather self-absorbed, dishonest and cavalier but ultimately good-natured person (and an extraordinary wizard), spreads these malicious rumours about himself to ensure his privacy and smear his own reputation to avoid work and responsibility. The door to his castle is actually a portal that opens onto four different places: the moving castle Sophie first encounters in the hills above Market Chipping, the seaside city of Porthaven, the royal capital of Kingsbury and Howl's boyhood home in Wales, where he was named Howell Jenkins.
Sophie strikes a bargain with Howl's resident fire demon, Calcifer: if Sophie can break the contract Howl and Calcifer have signed, then Calcifer will return Sophie to her original form. Part of the contract, however, stipulates that neither Howl nor Calcifer can disclose the terms of the contract to any third party. Sophie tries to guess the specifics of the contract, while Calcifer supplies frequent hints which Sophie usually doesn't pick up. Howl realizes that Sophie is under a spell and secretly attempts to remove the curse; when met with failure, he comes to the conclusion that Sophie wants to remain an old woman.
Howl's apprentice Michael Fisher runs most of the day-to-day affairs of Howl's business, while Howl chases his ever-changing paramours. Howl and Michael court Sophie's two younger sisters Lettie and Martha, respectively. Martha, the youngest, was sent to study magic, while the middle sister, Lettie, was apprenticed at a local bakery. Disguising herself as Lettie, Martha arranged for the two of them to switch places, as Fanny (Martha's mother and Sophie and Lettie's stepmother) did not take their wishes into account when arranging their apprenticeships.
When Prince Justin (the King's younger brother) goes missing while searching for Wizard Suliman (Benjamin Sullivan, also from Wales), the King orders Howl to find Suliman and Justin and kill the Witch of the Waste. Howl, however, has his own reasons to avoid seeking a confrontation with the Witch of the Waste; the Witch, a jaded former lover, has laid a curse on him. Howl attempts to weasel out of it by having Sophie, pretending to be his mother, petition against the appointment— but to no avail. Instead of blackening Howl's name like he asked Sophie to do, she gets him appointed the new Royal Wizard, the post he has been trying to avoid for years.
Howl continues to avoid the Witch of the Waste until she lures Sophie into a trap; believing that the Witch has taken Howl's current love interest, Lily Angorian, captive, Sophie goes to save her and is in turn captured by the Witch of the Waste. Howl comes to save Sophie and defeats the Witch of the Waste. He knew all along that Miss Angorian was actually the Witch's fire demon in disguise. The Witch's fire demon had, over the years, taken control of the Witch and, once the Witch is defeated, tries to take Howl's heart to stay alive. Howl is able to stop the demon but fails because Miss Angorian took hold of Calcifer and tried to squeeze Howl's heart out of him. Sophie uses her talent of talking things to life to break the contract between Howl and Calcifer without killing either of them. Sophie has been unconsciously retaining the spell on herself, but her concern for Howl weakens the spell, and with the death of the Witch of the Waste, who was a significant force behind the spell as well, Calcifer, as promised, breaks the spell the second she concludes the contract between him and Howl, and she returns to her proper age. When Howl awakens, he destroys the witch's fire demon. This breaks the curse on Wizard Suliman and Prince Justin, whom the Witch had fused together in an effort to create a 'perfect human' (Howl's head was meant to complete the being) to use as a puppet to rule Ingary.
Calcifer returns under the condition that he can come and go as he wishes. Sophie and Howl admit they love each other (without actually saying it) and Howl suggests they live happily ever after.

 ***soon after I read that novel, I got pregnant & I told EMB that if the baby is girl I'll definitely will name her "SOPHIE"!  That's how my daughter Sophie got her name...hahaha...

Hayao Miyazaki - pic from:  wikipedia

this is my lovely Totoro (large forest spirit), my favourite character from "My Neighbour Totoro"