Having produced classic after classic over the course of Hayao Miyazaki's nearly five-decade career in animation, the Japanese animation master turns 75 today.

As a legendary anime film maker, Hayao Miyazaki's legacy will live on with these beautiful films stuffed full of spirits, demons, and cats.

10. The Castle - "Howl’s Moving Castle"

It’s a partially sentient walking/flying house with the ability to teleport inhabitants thousands of miles or even through space and time via secret doors.

9. Robot Soldier - "Castle In The Sky"

Mechanized robots of death and destruction that choose instead to be guardians and gardeners of a floating city?

8. Great Forest Spirit - "Princess Mononoke"

Sure he’s creepy and looks like a deer that got stretched into stardust and leaves a mess of greenery everywhere he steps, but isn’t that what make him so endearing?

7. Chibi Totoro and Chu Totoro - "My Neighbor Totoro"

These acorn collectors are pint-sized versions of their companion. For when you need a Totoro neighbor for apartment dwellers.

6. Goldfish - "Ponyo"

Ponyo’s little sisters might not get to go on life-changing adventures with humans, but they steal every scene they’re in so it evens out.

5. Haku - "Spirited Away"

If you don’t want a dragon spirit that is willing to risk his life over and over again to save your from your own naivety then you’re a liar.

4. Catbus - "My Neighbor Totoro"

It’s a cat. It’s a bus. It is literally what it says on the tin. Yet somehow this simply impossible animal is one of the most coveted fictional animals ever.

3. Forest Spirit - "Princess Mononoke"

Creepy cute? Check. Weird noise you’ll try to mimic without success for hours, making you look crazy? Check. Desire to catch and own one? Check. Basically, these guys are perfection.

2. No-Face - "Spirited Away"

Don’t be lonely! You can follow us around forever and be cute and transparent and socially awkward as long as you don’t eat anything that turns you into a giant hungering monster.

1. Calcifer - "Howl’s Moving Castle"

Voiced by Billy Crystal, this fire demon spawned perhaps the best curse of the Internet age. A lovable trickster, he might not always be trustworthy but he’s always a friend.