The Wind Rises

In an increasingly globalizing century ,   international studios likeStudio Ghiblihave become household epithet beyond their abode state , and the West is becoming more open to foreign cinema with film likeParasite(2019 )   not only incur legion nominations and honour , but also the care of globular audiences .

Disneyanimations likeFrozen(2013),andBig Hero 6(2014 ) top the popularity chart of the 2010s , but many popular animation were external share .   Shrouded by the legacy of domesticated share , many animated films that were popular at the time of departure have been overlooked . These international animations of the 2010s : the most pop external life of that year , merit to be remembered and appreciated again .

2010- The Secret World of Arrietty

This gum anime , produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by   Hiromasa Yonebayashi , was an animated adaptation of the English novelThe Borrowers , author by Mary Norton . This animation follow the story of the diminutive Clock family who lives secretly in the house of an ordinary class and borrows their belongings to construct their own habitation until fourteen - year - old Arrietty is discovered by a human boy .

This gorgeous movie was released in 2010 , was the highest - gross Japanese film of the yr , and rise to be so popular that Walt Disney Pictures would pluck it up to produce the English dub .

2011- From Up on Poppy Hill

This Studio Ghibli output was directed by Goro Miyazaki and was based on the manga of the same name by   Tetsurō Sayama and   Chizuru Takahashi . The animation tells the history of young student Umi who befriend a son advert Shun who together exploit to clean up the schooltime ’s club and agitate to keep the club from being pulverise for redevelopment .

This plastic film is so popular it ranked eminent than   the 2011 productions ofGnomeo and Juliet , Winnie the Pooh , andPuss in Boots .   Thebeautiful animation follow out pernicious historical elementsinto the foundation of the photographic film , ply an authentic nostalgic character .

2012- Wolf Children

This Japaneseproduction was direct by Mamoru Hosoda . Wolf Childrenfollows 13 age in the living of Hana as she falls in erotic love with a werewolf in college and has two nipper with him . When he pass away unexpectedly , Hana must arouse the two half - wolf nipper alone .

This liveliness ranks as Hosoda ’s most democratic moving-picture show to engagement , but he ’s also direct the gorgeous production ofThe lady friend Who Leapt Through Time ( 2006),andBelle ( 2021 ) , which are both laudable animations in their own right .

2013- The Wind Rises

This gorgeous Studio Ghibli yield was manoeuvre by noted filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki establish on the novel of the same name written by Tatsuo Hori in 1937 and also the lifespan of Japanese engineer Jiro Horikoshi . This fictionalized history is a grievous story of the passionate and loving Jiro who produces the aircraft that Japan ends up using in World War II .

This film end up being the 3rd most popular liveliness of the year , succeeded only byFrozenandMonsters University . cut into into the grievous bittersweet realities of human making love and war , the animation explore universal idea . The Wind Riseswas   nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as well as numerous other awards .

2014- When Marnie Was There

This pic , based on Joan G. Robinson ’s novel of the same name andproduced by Studio Ghibliwas direct by   Hiromasa Yonebayashi . When Marnie Was Therefollows a immature fille name Anna who is sent to live with congenator and discovers an abandoned star sign . While research the hall , Anna meets and befriends a girl named Marnie .

This grievous film designated the Irish productionSong of the Sea ( 2014)to the 2nd most popular international animation of the year and was itself the 4th most popular aliveness of the yr behindBig Hero 6 , The Lego Movie , andHow to educate Your Dragon 2 .

2015- The Little Prince

Although alone speak in English , this animated adaptation of   Antoine de Saint - Exupéry ’s French classicThe Little Prince , was actually a French production direct by Mark Osborne , the conductor ofKung Fu Panda(2008 ) . It tells two level : one of a footling girl stifle by a controlling mother who find solace in her neighbour , and 2nd , the tale that the neighbor assure her of when he met the Little Prince .

With a combination of 3D animation and give up motion to distinguish the two floor , the innovative stylistic qualities of the animation are gorgeous . The film won many awards and was picked up by Netflix for American statistical distribution .

2016- Your Name.

This Nipponese production was directed by   Makoto Shinkai , a fecund director responsible for singular films likeWeathering With You ( 2019)and5 Centimeters Per Second ( 2007 ) . This liveliness follows the liveliness of Mitsuha and Taki who inexplicably start to switch bodies randomly .

The animation broke boxwood office records and win several awards . It was so democratic that it was set to find a live - action at law version by Paramount but is up in the strain after director Lee Isaac Chung left the production .

2017- Loving Vincent

This innovative handpainted animation was produced in Poland and co - calculate by   Dorota Kobiela and   Hugh Welchman . Each frame of reference was handpainted in fossil oil paints by a team of artists , mime the style of Vincent Van Gogh in this animize version of his life .

Praised for the stylistic instauration of a handpainted film , Loving Vincentwas nominated for theAcademy Awards for intimately Animated Featureand bring home the bacon accolades of international renown . This moving-picture show was the third most democratic animated photographic film of the class , only surpassed byCoco , andThe Lego Batman Movie .

2018- Mirai

This Japanese animation was send by   Mamoru Hosoda , the same music director responsible forWolf Children ( 2012).Miraifollows a four - year - sure-enough boy , Kun , who struggle with the parturition of his young sister . In the garden of his house , he bump magical circumstance that allowhim to go through time , and in his adventures , careen his perspective on his sister .

This picture became the first non - Studio Ghibli anime to be nominated for the Academy Awards . Miraiwas more popular than the 2018 experimental Chilean productionThe Wolf Houseand the Japanese animeI need to rust Your Pancreas .

2019- Klaus

Klauswas the first - ever film bring on by the SPA Studios , an animation studio founded by Sergio Pablos , the director of the film . Although the animation is in English , it is a Spanish yield . Klausis an innovational 2D animation that utilize 3D lighting software for a gorgeous rendering . spread by Netflix , Klausis an animated Christmas moviecentered around Jesper , an entitled and lazy letter carrier who is post to Smeerensburg to establish a successful post office in a village where none before have succeeded .

The brisk spin on the root of Santa Claus as well as the rotatory invigoration engine hadKlausnominated for over a dozen awards . The film was make for seven Annie Awards and won every unmarried one . It even travel by the popularity of Makoto Shinkai ’s animeWeathering With You ( 2019 ) .

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A split image of several international animated movies.

Arrietty by a leaf in The Secret World Of Arrietty

Two characters stand on a hill in From Up On Poppy Hill

A mother digging the soil next to two kids in Wolf Children.

Jiro carries Kino on his back in The Wind Rises.

Anna and Marnie walk through the woods in When Marnie Was There

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Two characters in Your Name. speaking on a city street.

An animated version of Vincent Van Gogh that mirror’s the painter’s art style.

Mirai Catching Kun in Mirai

Klaus and Jesper in the forest in Klaus, 2019

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