Hayao Miyazaki

Directing · 3.8 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: January 5, 1941
From: Tokyo, Japan
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Biography

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.

Works

51 films

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

20177.5

Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

20019.7

Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature

20257.8

Kurosawa's Way

20115.8

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron

20247.8

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

20137.6

Mei and the Kittenbus

20027.2

25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert

20089.3

Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum

20058.0

Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo

20126.6

Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya

20146.7

The Art of 'Spirited Away'

20038.2

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

2006

Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion

2004

Miyazaki

20256.0

The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki

19989.0

Ghibli's Bookshelf

2010

Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son

20117.5

Lasseter-san, Thank You

2003

The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away

200110.0

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

2011

Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion

20218.6

The Cat Returns - Making of

20027.8

How Ghibli Was Born

19986.0

2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli

2023

Miwa: A Japanese Icon

20136.3

How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process

20098.0

The Birth of Studio Ghibli

2003

Imaginary Flying Machines

20026.2

The Making of Only Yesterday

199110.0

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

20109.0

Super TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"

2000

Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery

20057.2

Manga!

19947.0

Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD

200410.0

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

20148.7

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

20076.0

The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It!

200110.0

The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken

200110.0

In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki

199310.0

Japanese Cinema: New Territories

2011

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

2008

吉卜力工作室完整特别短片合辑1992-2016

2026

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

20019.0

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

2008

宮崎駿スペシャル「風立ちぬ」1000日の記録

2026

Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece

20047.0

"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"

20026.5

A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog

2011

Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao

2009

宮崎駿引退宣言知られざる物語

2026