Hayao Miyazaki

Born: January 5, 1941 (85 years)

Tokyo, Japan

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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Movies Directed (37)

Hayao Miyazaki

Sherlock Hound: The Movie

The Boy and the Heron

Boro the Caterpillar

The Wind Rises

Treasure Hunting

Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess

Ponyo

Madaran's World

House Hunting

The Day I Bought a Star

Mon Mon the Water Spider

Howl's Moving Castle

Tacolator

Bobo-kun

Piyopiyo Baba

Imaginary Flying Machines

Mei and the Kittenbus

Koro's Big Day Out

The Whale Hunt

A Splendid Dance

Rambutan Adventures

The Fish of the Fish

Spirited Away

Princess Mononoke

Chage & Aska: On Your Mark

Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers

Porco Rosso

Kiki's Delivery Service

My Neighbor Totoro

Castle in the Sky

Sherlock Hound: Mrs. Hudson Is Taken Hostage / The White Cliffs of Dover

Warriors of the Wind

Sherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea

Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection

The Castle of Cagliostro

Yuki's Sun

Hayao Miyazaki's Unreleased Film

Sherlock Hound

Future Boy Conan

Lupin the 3rd

Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature

Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron

2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli

Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya

The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

Miwa: A Japanese Icon

Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo

Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point

A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog

Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son

Kurosawa's Way

Japanese Cinema: New Territories

Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director

Ghibli's Bookshelf

How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process

Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao

25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert

NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen

Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works

A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest

The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People

Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum

Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery

Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD

Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion

Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece

Lasseter-san, Thank You

The Birth of Studio Ghibli

The Art of 'Spirited Away'

"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"

Imaginary Flying Machines

Mei and the Kittenbus

The Cat Returns - Making of

The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper

Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

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