Hayao Miyazaki
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: January 5, 1941 (84 years old)
Place of Birth: 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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Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
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Kurosawa's Way
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A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
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Japanese Cinema: New Territories
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Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
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From Up on Poppy Hill
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Treasure Hunting
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Treasure Hunting
2010
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Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
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Ghibli's Bookshelf
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Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
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Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
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A Sumo Wrestler's Tail
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Toy Story 3
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The Secret World of Arrietty
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The Secret World of Arrietty
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The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People
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House Hunting
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Mon Mon the Water Spider
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House Hunting
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House Hunting
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The Day I Bought a Star
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The Day I Bought a Star
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Mon Mon the Water Spider
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Mon Mon the Water Spider
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Tales from Earthsea
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Mei and the Kittenbus
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"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"
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Imaginary Flying Machines
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The Cat Returns - Making of
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Mei and the Kittenbus
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Mei and the Kittenbus
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Koro's Big Day Out
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Koro's Big Day Out
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Imaginary Flying Machines
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Tacolator
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Bobo-kun
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Piyopiyo Baba
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The Cat Returns
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Imaginary Flying Machines
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Tacolator
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Tacolator
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Bobo-kun
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Bobo-kun
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Bobo-kun
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The Cat Returns
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Piyopiyo Baba
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Piyopiyo Baba
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Piyopiyo Baba
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The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction
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Imaginary Flying Machines
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The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction - First Storyboards, in Motion Short Director
2001
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The Nippon Television Special
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Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
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Spirited Away
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The Whale Hunt
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The Whale Hunt
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Spirited Away
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A Splendid Dance
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Rambutan Adventures
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The Fish of the Fish
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A Splendid Dance
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A Splendid Dance
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Rambutan Adventures
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Rambutan Adventures
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The Fish of the Fish
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The Fish of the Fish
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The Fish of the Fish
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Rambutan Adventures
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A Splendid Dance
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On Your Mark
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Whisper of the Heart
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Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
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On Your Mark
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On Your Mark
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Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
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Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
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Whisper of the Heart
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On Your Mark
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Whisper of the Heart
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The Making of Only Yesterday
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Only Yesterday
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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Sherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
Character Designer
Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
