This wonderful and visually stunning movie by Isao Takahata is easily Studio Ghibli's funniest movie. A series of segments showing the life of a family, this is a sweet, funny and moving films that stills manages to touch on some of the darker apects of life, like death and self-doubt. The visuals are incredible. The pencil lines and watercolor look is one that Takahata would come back to in The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Princess Kaguya herself makes an appearance in a segment that references the original story "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter"). What a wonderful movie. I think this might be Studio Ghibli's most underrated movie. Irarely hear people talking about this one, which didn't prepare for how much I ended up loving it.