This Underrated Gem Is Actually The Best Ghibli Movie Ever Made

Everyone knows Spirited Away, Totoro, and The Boy and the Heron—Studio Ghibli’s big, beloved classics. But sitting at the top of Ghibli’s Rotten Tomatoes scores, with a perfect 100%, is a film that’s somehow still flying under the radar: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

It’s not flashy. Because it doesn’t need to be. Drawn in a trembling, hand-brushed style that feels more like a memory than a movie, Kaguya looks and moves like a story being told aloud. You can almost hear the paper rustle as each frame turns.