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Born January 5, 1941 · 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.

Sherlock Hound: The Movie
2024

The Boy and the Heron
2023

Boro the Caterpillar
2018

The Wind Rises
2013

Treasure Hunting
2011

Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
2010

Ponyo
2008

Madaran's World
2007

House Hunting
2006

The Day I Bought a Star
2006

Mon Mon the Water Spider
2006

Howl's Moving Castle
2004

Tacolator
2002
Bobo-kun
2002
Piyopiyo Baba
2002

Imaginary Flying Machines
2002

Mei and the Kittenbus
2002

Koro's Big Day Out
2002

The Whale Hunt
2001

A Splendid Dance
2001

Rambutan Adventures
2001

The Fish of the Fish
2001

Spirited Away
2001

Princess Mononoke
1997

On Your Mark
1995

Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
1995

Porco Rosso
1992

Kiki's Delivery Service
1989

My Neighbor Totoro
1988

Castle in the Sky
1986

Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature
2025

Miyazaki
2025

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
2024

2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
2023

Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
2021

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
2017

Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2014

The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
2014

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
2013

Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013

Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
2012

Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
2011

A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
2011

Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
2011

Kurosawa's Way
2011
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011

Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
2010

Ghibli's Bookshelf
2010

How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process
2009

Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao
2009

25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
2008
NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen
2008

Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
2008

A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
2007