It's always going to be Nausicaa for me. First heard about it on a Sega discussion BBS circa 1995 when people were talking about how obvious the new Saturn game Panzer Dragoon was extremely influenced some old anime. The more they said about it the more I wanted to see it, I ended up going to a sketchy gray market video shop in the Yaohan Mall in LA's Little Tokyo district. I described it to the guy who owned the shop but he couldn't understand me. As I was about to leave, his daughter who overhead everything talked to him in Japanese and he said, "Ah, Now-sheek-ah, hai, hai!" and went over to a rack and grabbed a tape and handed it to me. It was clearly a homemade bootleg, which I expected. I paid for it and went home and watched it and loved the shit out of it, despite all of it being in a language I didn't understand (at the time.) Led to me going back to Yaohan to hit the bookstore and buy a Nausicaa artbook. That led to me finding out Totoro was made by the same people (I actually had seen Siskel & Ebert give it a good review years prior, but it looked way too kiddie/girly to catch my interest at the time,) so I bought that from the same video shop. And on and on. Over the years by reading interviews in various Japanese gaming magazines I'd find out that Nausicaa was really just a HUGE influence in general on the entire Japanese video game industry from the mid-80s into the 90s and beyond.
So anyway, I love most of Miyazaki's movies, but I don't have story for any of the others. Good times.
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