35岁的铃原奈绪（松雪泰子 饰）只身漂泊北国。似乎因某种原因，在过去的10年里她从未回到家中。奈绪喜欢观察鸟类，却阴差阳错成为一名小学教员。在此期间，她邂逅了7岁的小女孩道木怜南（芦田爱菜 饰）。怜南想法独特，性格开朗，只是身边没有一个朋友。她生长在单亲的家庭里，母亲和 情人同居，过着寥落破败的生活。怜南的特立独行和其身上偶然发现的伤痕引起奈绪和校方的注意。他们意识到这个小女孩正遭受来自母亲的虐待，几经波折，奈绪的母性被唤起。她决定“诱拐”怜南，担当起作为母亲的责任。
那个飘雪的日子，奈绪和怜南乔装打扮，相约离开寒冷的北国，启程去寻找一个温馨幸福的家园……

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.