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# This Video Puts All the Studio Ghibli Easter Eggs in One Incredible Supercut

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## Melissa Locker


Apr 27, 2015 8:09 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Apr 27, 2015 8:09 PM UTC

Hayao Miyazaki is [a master animator](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/04/hayao-miyazaki-ranking-his-10-movies/), but he’s also a master of guerrilla marketing. A new video from YouTube channel [Movie Munchies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBehHitrhQcMGjJfeTF3fGQ) shows how Miyazaki subtly snuck the name of his animation studio, Studio Ghibli, into his films, including on a bus billboard in _Kiki’s Delivery Service_ and multiple times into _Porco Rosso._

Miyazaki also planted little reminders — or Easter eggs — of his past work into his films, which until now, were only there for eagle-eyed fans and repeat viewers. Examples of Miyazaki playing homage to his past work include a Jiji the Cat pillow in a bedroom in _Spirited Away,_ a _Castle in the Sky_ character walking down the street in _Howl’s Moving Castle_ and a _Totoro_ book on the shelf in the library in _Whispers of the Heart_. He even managed to take a page out of Alfred Hitchcock’s and Stan Lee’s books and inject a little caricature of himself into the films.

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