Hayao Miyazaki
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- AnimationMary and The Witch's Flower
- ComedyBlackbeard's Ghost
- DocumentaryThe Pixar Story
- ActionAvengers: Age of Ultron
- AnimationLupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
- AnimationLupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
- AnimationLupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
- AnimationToy Story 3
- AnimationHowl's Moving Castle
- AnimationPonyo
- AnimationSpirited Away
- AnimationPrincess Mononoke
- AnimationCastle in the Sky
- AnimationWhisper of the Heart
- AnimationThe Secret World of Arrietty
- AnimationThe Cat Returns
- AnimationPom Poko
- AnimationEarwig and the Witch
- AnimationEarwig and the Witch
- AnimationEarwig and the Witch
- AnimationFrom Up on Poppy Hill
- AnimationPorco Rosso
- AnimationNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- AnimationHorus: Prince of the Sun
- DocumentaryThe Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
- FamilyOne of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
- AnimationHowl's Moving Castle
- AnimationPonyo
- AnimationPonyo
- AnimationSpirited Away
- AnimationPrincess Mononoke
- AnimationKiki's Delivery Service
- AnimationMy Neighbor Totoro
- AnimationCastle in the Sky
- AnimationCastle in the Sky
- AnimationWhisper of the Heart
- AnimationThe Secret World of Arrietty
- AnimationPom Poko
- AnimationPorco Rosso
- AnimationNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- AnimationLa luna
- AnimationHowl's Moving Castle
- AnimationPonyo
- AnimationPrincess Mononoke
- AnimationKiki's Delivery Service
- AnimationMy Neighbor Totoro
- AnimationPorco Rosso
- AnimationNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- AnimationKiki's Delivery Service
- AnimationNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- AnimationThe Boy and the Heron
- AnimationThe Boy and the Heron
- AnimationThe Boy and the Heron
- Animation3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
- AnimationNadia: The Secret of Blue Water
- AnimationThe Wind Rises
- AnimationOnly Yesterday
- AnimationThe Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots
- AnimationOn Your Mark
- AnimationMei and the Kittenbus
- AnimationMei and the Kittenbus
- AnimationPanda! Go Panda!
- FamilyPanda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus
- AnimationMr. Dough and the Egg Princess
- AnimationLupin the Third: Greatest Capers
- AnimationAnimal Treasure Island
- AnimationAnimal Treasure Island
- DocumentaryNever-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
- AnimationMon Mon the Water Spider
- AnimationFlying Phantom Ship
- AnimationThe Day I Bought a Star
- DramaSpirited Away: Live on Stage
- DramaSpirited Away: Live on Stage
- AnimationGiant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
- AnimationGulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
- DocumentaryA Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
- AnimationA Sumo Wrestler's Tail
- AnimationImaginary Flying Machines
- AnimationWarriors of the Wind
- AnimationSherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea
- AnimationThe Sky-Colored Seed
- AnimationBoro the Caterpillar
- AnimationFuture Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
- AnimationKoro's Big Day Out
- AnimationThe Whale Hunt
- DocumentaryThe Story of Yanagawa's Canals
- DocumentaryThe Story of Yanagawa's Canals
- AnimationDoggie March
- AnimationPiyopiyo Baba
- AnimationAli Baba and the Forty Thieves
- DocumentaryHow Ponyo was Born ~Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process~
- AnimationYuki's Sun
- AnimationHouse Hunting
- AnimationSherlock Hound: Mrs. Hudson Is Taken Hostage / The White Cliffs of Dover
- ComedyPanda! Go Panda!
- ComedyPanda! Go Panda!
- AnimationTenguri, Boy of the Plains
- DocumentaryHow Ghibli Was Born
- AnimationTreasure Hunting
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Hayao Miyazaki
Director
Hayao Miyazaki (Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly five decades, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park as well as Robert Zemeckis, who pioneered Motion Capture animation, and he has been named one of the most influential people by Time Magazine.
Miyazaki began his career at Toei Animation as an in-between artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon where he pitched his own ideas that eventually became the movie's ending. He continued to work in various roles in the animation industry over the decade until he was able to direct his first feature film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro which was published in 1979. After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until Princess Mononoke whereafter he temporarily retired.
While Miyazaki's films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan, he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax released his 1997 film, Princess Mononoke. Princess Mononoke was the highest-grossing film in Japan—until it was eclipsed by another 1997 film, Titanic—and the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards. Miyazaki returned to animation with Spirited Away. The film topped Titanic's sales at the Japanese box office, also won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards and was the first anime film to win an American Academy Award.
Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes, such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women. Miyazaki is a vocal critic of capitalism and globalization. While two of his films, The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films such as Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities.
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- Place of Birth
- Tokyo, Japan
- Known Credits
- 113
- Website
- http://www.ghibli.jp/