Hayao Miyazaki's Heroines

Gillian Anderson, Claire Danes, Yuriko Ishida, and Akihiro Miwa in Princess Mononoke (1997)

Alison Lohman and Sumi Shimamoto in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Rei Sakuma, and Minami Takayama in Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Daveigh Chase and Rumi Hiiragi in Spirited Away (2001)

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Noriko Hidaka in My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Chika Sakamoto in My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Castle in the Sky (1986)

Emily Blunt and Miori Takimoto in The Wind Rises (2013)

Akemi Okamura and Kimberly Williams-Paisley in Porco Rosso (1992)

Akiko Yano, Noah Cyrus, and Yuria Nara in Ponyo (2008)

Bridget Hoffman, J.C. Henning, and Sumi Shimamoto in Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

Conan the Future Boy: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection (1984)