Movie Marathon Idea: Netflix Starts Streaming Ghibli Films Ella Follow Jan 22 · 3 min read

Studio Ghibli Movies are coming to Netflix on February 1st

Netflix just announced exciting news — Studio Ghibli movies are coming to their platform. Netflix has won the rights to stream such Ghibli classics as Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky and others. It will start streaming movies from February 1st all across the world. Well, not all across the world, sadly US, Canada and Japan viewers will not get the pleasure to watch movies on Netflix. I guess they will need to jump to some other streaming platform.

Good news for the American viewers, although they not be able to stream Ghibli movies on Netflix they will be able to watch them on HBO Max which is launching in May and have bought the rights for streaming Ghibli movies in the US.

Everyone should be very excited, since we finally get to enjoy watching Studio Ghibli movies online. Until recently Ghibli Studios didn’t offer movies in any digital format.

“This is a dream come true for Netflix and millions of our members” — Aram Yacoubian, Netflix’s director of original animation

And for those Netflix fans living in the US, Canada and Japan, if you want to watch Ghibli movies on Netflix you can do so by using a VPN.

Movies will arrive in 3 waves

First wave will air on February 1st:

Castle in the Sky

Kiki’s Delivery Service

My Neighbor Totoro

Only Yesterday

Porco Rosso

Tales from Earthsea

Ocean Waves

The second batch of movies will air on 1st of March:

Princess Mononoke

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

My Neighbors the Yamadas

The Cat Returns

Spirited Away

Arrietty

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

And the last wave of Studio Ghibli movies will air on 1st of April:

Pom Poko

Whisper of the Heart

Howl’s Moving Castle

Ponyo

From Up on Poppy Hill

The Wind Rises

When Marnie Was There

How to watch Ghibli Movies on Netflix from anywhere

All you need to do if you want to watch Ghibli movies on Netflix from US, Canada or Japan, you need to get yourself a VPN.

Look into VPNs that work with Netflix. For example, Surfshark ($1.99/month), NordVPN ($3.49/month), ExpressVPN ($8.32/month), CyberGhost ($2.75/month).

When you chose a VPN connect to countries servers where Ghibli movies are available, for example the UK servers. Then clean all of your history, captchas, cookies and you will be good to go.