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Hayao Miyazaki
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn January 5, 1941 (85 years)
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.
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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Hayao Miyazaki Filmography
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| 1984 | Sherlock Hound (TV Series) |
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| 1978 | Future Boy Conan (TV Series) |
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| 2013 | The Wind Rises · as Screenplay |
| 2011 | From Up on Poppy Hill · as Screenplay |
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| 2010 | The Secret World of Arrietty · as Screenplay |
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| 2004 | Howl's Moving Castle · as Screenplay |
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| 1999 | Future Boy Conan II: Taiga Adventure (TV Series) |
| 1995 | Whisper of the Heart · as Screenplay |
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| 1992 | Porco Rosso · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 1989 | Kiki's Delivery Service · as Screenplay |
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| 1984 | Sherlock Hound (TV Series) |
| 1984 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · as Screenplay |
| 1979 | Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro · as Screenplay |
| 1973 | Panda Kopanda Rainy Day Circus · as Screenplay |
| 1972 | Yuki's Sun · as Screenplay |
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| 1971 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves · as Screenplay |
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| 2008 | Ponyo · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Howl's Moving Castle · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | Pom Poko · as Executive Producer |
| 1991 | Only Yesterday · as Executive Producer |
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| 1987 | The Story of Yanagawa Waterways · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Miyazaki: Spirit of Nature · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron · as Self |
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| 2019 | 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki · as Self |
| 2015 | The Oscars · as Self - Honorary Award Recipient |
| 2014 | The Oscars · as Self - Nominee |
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| 2013 | The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness · as Self |
| 2011 | Kurosawa's Way · as Self |
| 2010 | Miwa: Looking for Black Lizard · as Himself |
| 2008 | Hisaishi Jo in Budoukan · as Self - Filmmaker |
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| 2006 | The Professionals (2006) (TV Series) · as Himself |
| 2006 | Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | Ghibli et le mystère Miyazaki · as Self - Interviewee |
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| 2002 | Japanorama (TV Series) · as Self |
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| 1998 | Jônetsu tairiku (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | ARD-Morgenmagazin (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1989 | ＮＨＫスペシャル (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | At The Movies (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo · as Giant Robot (voice) |
| 2002 | Mei and the Kitten Bus · as Neko Bâchan (voice) |
| 2024 | Sherlock Hound: The Movie · as Storyboard |
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron · as Original Story |
| 2022 | Spirited Away: Live on Stage · as Original Story |
| 2020 | Earwig and the Witch · as Developed By |
| 2012 | Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo · as Character Designer |
| 2012 | Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo · as Characters |
| 2010 | The Secret World of Arrietty · as Other |
| 2006 | Tales from Earthsea · as Original Story |
| 2002 | The Cat Returns · as Production Coordinator |
| 2002 | The Cat Returns · as Original Concept |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke · as Original Story |
| 1995 | Whisper of the Heart · as Supervising Producer |
| 1986 | Castle in the Sky · as Original Story |
| 1984 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · as Character Designer |
| 1984 | Conan the Future Boy: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection · as Character Designer |
| 1980 | New Gigantor (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 1980 | From the Apennines to the Andes: The Movie · as Layout Supervisor |
| 1979 | Conan, the Boy in Future · as Character Designer |
| 1979 | Anne of Green Gables (1979) (TV Series) · as Layout |
| 1978 | Future Boy Conan (TV Series) · as Mechanical Designer |
| 1976 | 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (TV Series) · as Art Direction |
| 1976 | 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (TV Series) · as Animation |
| 1974 | Heidi (TV Series) · as Layout |
| 1973 | Panda Kopanda Rainy Day Circus · as Key Animation |
| 1972 | Yuki's Sun · as Animation |
| 1972 | Panda! Go Panda! · as Key Animation |
| 1972 | Panda! Go Panda! · as Original Story |
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| 1971 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves · as Key Animation |
| 1971 | Animal Treasure Island · as Key Animation |
| 1971 | Animal Treasure Island · as Idea Composition |
| 1969 | Flying Phantom Ship · as Animation |
| 1969 | Puss in Boots · as Key Animation |
| 1968 | Horus: Prince of the Sun · as Animation |
| 1965 | Gulliver's Space Travels: Beyond the Moon · as Animation |
| 1963 | Doggie March · as Animation |