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Name
Hayao Miyazaki

Known For
Directing

Birthday
1941-01-05 (85 years old)

Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan

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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2009 Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao as Self
2021 Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion as Self
2004 Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion as Self
2002 Mei and the Kittenbus as Totoro (voice)
2011 Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point as Self
2012 Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo as Giant Robot (voice)
2011 Kurosawa's Way as Self
2013 The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness as Self
2001 The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper as Self
2014 Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya as Self
2008 25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert as Self - Filmmaker
2011 A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
2023 2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli as Self
2013 Miwa: A Japanese Icon as Self
2024 Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron as Self
2008 NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen as Self
2000 Super TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"
2011 Japanese Cinema: New Territories as Self
2004 Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece as Self
2006 The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People as Self
1998 The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki as Self
2025 Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature as Self (archive footage)
2004 Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD as Self
2005 Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum as Self
2017 Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki as Self
2001 The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away as Self
2011 Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son as Self
2014 The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story as Self
2001 Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A. as Self
2005 Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery as Self - Interviewee
2003 The Art of 'Spirited Away' as Self
2009 How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process as Self
1998 How Ghibli Was Born as Self
2001 The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It! as Self
2001 The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken as Self
2007 A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest as Self
2002 "The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!" as Self
1993 In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki as Self
2002 Imaginary Flying Machines as Le cochon
1991 The Making of Only Yesterday as Self
2003 Lasseter-san, Thank You as Self
2010 Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director as Self
2002 The Cat Returns - Making of as Self
1994 Manga! as Self
2010 Ghibli's Bookshelf as self
2008 Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
2003 The Birth of Studio Ghibli
2025 Miyazaki as Self
Soon 吉卜力工作室完整特别短片合辑1992-2016 as 导演
Soon 宮崎駿スペシャル「風立ちぬ」1000日の記録
Soon 宮崎駿引退宣言知られざる物語

Soon The Professionals ( 1 episode ) as Self
2019 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2006 Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi ( 1 episode ) as Self

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