Hayao Miyazaki

Regista, Sceneggiatore, Montatore, Produttore, Attore

5 gennaio 1941 (85 anni)
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.

Famoso per

  • La città incantata
    La città incantata2001
  • Il castello errante di Howl
    Il castello errante di Howl2004
  • Princess Mononoke
    Princess Mononoke1997
  • Il mio vicino Totoro
    Il mio vicino Totoro1988
  • Ponyo sulla scogliera
    Ponyo sulla scogliera2008
  • Il ragazzo e l'airone
    Il ragazzo e l'airone2023
  • Il castello nel cielo
    Il castello nel cielo1986
  • Nausicaä della Valle del vento
    Nausicaä della Valle del vento1984
  • Kiki - Consegne a domicilio
    Kiki - Consegne a domicilio1989
  • Si alza il vento
    Si alza il vento2013
  • Arrietty - Il mondo segreto sotto il pavimento
    Arrietty - Il mondo segreto sotto il pavimento2010
  • Porco Rosso
    Porco Rosso1992
  • I sospiri del mio cuore
    I sospiri del mio cuore1995
  • Pioggia di ricordi
    Pioggia di ricordi1991
  • Lupin III - Il castello di Cagliostro
    Lupin III - Il castello di Cagliostro1979
  • La collina dei papaveri
    La collina dei papaveri2011
  • La ricompensa del gatto
    La ricompensa del gatto2002
  • Pom Poko
    Pom Poko1994
  • I racconti di Terramare
    I racconti di Terramare2006
  • Conan il ragazzo del futuro
    Conan il ragazzo del futuro1 stagione

Filmografia