It’s the closest thing there is to a universal genre. That’s because, with rare exceptions, everyone falls in love, or at least wants to. And when you think about it, almost every movie is a love ...

From Spirited Away to The Wind Rises Away, Studio Ghibli has delivered some of the most poignant love stories of all time.

The conventions of the classic love story- the meet-cute, the obstacle, the grand union at the end- are barely a century old.