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Anyone with experience as to an appropriate age to introduce a child to Miyazaki? I imagine the dubbed versions are useful for this.

I'm about to have my first child, and have recently (in the last 5 years or so) revisited some Disney classics from my youth, and I'm not really thrilled with them.

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I recommend "Ponyo". Because it's good :) I think this is possibly the Miyazaki movie for the youngest target audience of all his movies, but I don't know his early movies, only all the later ones that many people know.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876563/

IMDB parents guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876563/parentalguide

Minimum age recommendations start at 0 (simply meaning no official limit, it's up to the parents) - depending on country - to around 5-7 years old for a minimum age for this movie.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponyo

My neighbor Totoro and ponyo are childrens movies for the younger ones.

Yes! My kids loved both of these. (And of course, they had to have stuffies: https://ghiblimerchandise.com/collections/my-neighbor-totoro...)

The Cat Returns would be a great Ghibli film for children. I also would never show children most Disney movies as a lot of them have terrible take-aways.

Definitely do not show them Spirited Away as a young child. I was permanently scarred (emotionally) by the grotesqueness of no-face as a child (~5). It really depends on the movie, but the ones with more mature themes should be left until they are at least in their teens. As a blanket statement, I would not generally say Ghibli films are as suitable for really young children as Disney/Pixar films are.

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