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Hayao Miyazaki

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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Born:
Jan 5, 1941 In Tokyo, Japan
Movie/TV Credits:
50
First Appeared:
In the movie The Making of Only Yesterday 1991-07-22
Latest Project:
Series The Professionals 2025
Known For
Filmography
Series The Professionals Himself 2025
Movie The Secrets of My Neighbors the Yamadas Unknown 2025
Movie Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature Self (stock footage) 2024-08-28
Movie Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron Self 2024-10-10
Movie 2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli Self 2023-12-16
Movie Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion Self 2021-03-22
Series 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki Self 2019-02-24
Movie Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki Self 2017-11-14
Movie The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story himself 2014-06-27
Movie Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya Self 2014-11-27
Movie Miwa: A Japanese Icon Himself 2013-08-31
Movie The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness Self 2013-11-16
Movie Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo Giant Robot (voice) 2012-07-10
Movie Japanese Cinema: New Territories Self 2011-03-25
Movie Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son Himself 2011-08-09
Movie Kurosawa's Way Self 2011-05-13
Movie A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog Unknown 2011-09-15
Movie Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point Self 2011-12-31
Movie Ghibli's Bookshelf self 2010-08-07
Movie Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director Himself 2010-08-15
Movie Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao Self 2009-01-23
Movie How Ponyo Was Born ~Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process~ Self 2009-12-08
Movie Making of Ponyo Self 2008-07-20
Movie Ghibli Landscapes - The Japan Depicted In Miyazaki's Works Unknown 2008-06-01
Movie 25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert Self - Filmmaker 2008-08-31
Movie A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest Self 2007-12-19
Series Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi Self 2006-01-10
Movie The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People Self 2006-04-06
Movie Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery Self - Interviewee 2005-01-07
Movie Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum Self 2005-03-18
Movie Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece Self 2004-03-24
Movie Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD Self 2004-08-06
Movie Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion Self 2004-07-23
Movie The Art of 'Spirited Away' Himself 2003-04-15
Movie The Birth of Studio Ghibli Unknown 2003-11-19
Movie Lasseter-san, Thank You Himself 2003-11-19
Movie The Cat Returns - Making of Self 2002-07-11
Movie Mei and the Kittenbus Neko Bâchan (Voice) 2002-10-01
Movie Imaginary Flying Machines Le cochon 2002-10-02
Movie "The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!" Himself 2002-10-02
Movie The Nippon Television Special Himself 2001-07-15
Movie Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A. Himself 2001-11-21
Movie How Ghibli Was Born Himself 1998-01-01
Movie The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki Himself 1998-05-09
Movie The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper Self 1997-02-04
Movie The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken Self 1997-02-04
Movie The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It! Self 1997-02-04
Movie Manga! Self 1994-01-07
Movie In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki Self 1993-12-31
Movie The Making of Only Yesterday Self 1991-07-22