About Hayao Miyazaki
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.
Movie Credits
Hayao Miyazaki has appeared in 48 movies.
TV Credits
Hayao Miyazaki has appeared in 3 shows.
These include
Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi,
10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki and
The Professionals.
Production Credits
Visual Effects
Writing
Credited for Writer in 20 shows -
Lupin the 3rd,
Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus,
Sherlock Hound,
Castle in the Sky,
My Neighbor Totoro,
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water,
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers,
Princess Mononoke,
Future Boy Conan II: Taiga Adventure,
Spirited Away,
The Whale Hunt,
Koro's Big Day Out,
Mei and the Kittenbus,
House Hunting,
Mon Mon the Water Spider,
Ponyo,
The Secret World of Arrietty,
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess,
Boro the Caterpillar and
The Boy and the Heron.
Credited for Screenplay in 29 shows -
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,
Panda! Go Panda!,
Panda! Go Panda!,
Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus,
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro,
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,
Kiki's Delivery Service,
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water,
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I,
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III,
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II,
Porco Rosso,
Whisper of the Heart,
Princess Mononoke,
A Splendid Dance,
Rambutan Adventures,
The Fish of the Fish,
Imaginary Flying Machines,
Tacolator,
Bobo-kun,
Piyopiyo Baba,
Howl's Moving Castle,
The Day I Bought a Star,
Madaran's World,
A Sumo Wrestler's Tail,
The Secret World of Arrietty,
Treasure Hunting,
From Up on Poppy Hill and
The Wind Rises.
Credited for Original Story in 12 shows -
Panda! Go Panda!,
Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus,
Princess Mononoke,
Spirited Away,
The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction - First Storyboards, in Motion Short Director,
The Cat Returns,
Mei and the Kittenbus,
Imaginary Flying Machines,
Tales from Earthsea,
Boro the Caterpillar,
Spirited Away: Live on Stage and
The Boy and the Heron.
Art
Credited for Storyboard Artist in 18 shows -
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,
Lupin the 3rd,
Yuki's Sun,
Future Boy Conan,
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro,
Future Boy Conan,
Sherlock Hound,
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers,
Whisper of the Heart,
A Splendid Dance,
Rambutan Adventures,
The Fish of the Fish,
Tacolator,
Bobo-kun,
Piyopiyo Baba,
Madaran's World,
Boro the Caterpillar and
The Boy and the Heron.
Production
Crew
Directing
Credited for Director in 42 shows -
Lupin the 3rd,
Yuki's Sun,
Future Boy Conan,
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro,
Future Boy Conan,
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,
Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection,
Sherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea,
Sherlock Hound,
Castle in the Sky,
Sherlock Hound: Mrs. Hudson Is Taken Hostage / The White Cliffs of Dover,
My Neighbor Totoro,
Kiki's Delivery Service,
Porco Rosso,
Nandarou,
The Sky-Colored Seed,
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers,
On Your Mark,
Princess Mononoke,
Spirited Away,
The Whale Hunt,
A Splendid Dance,
Rambutan Adventures,
The Fish of the Fish,
Koro's Big Day Out,
Mei and the Kittenbus,
Imaginary Flying Machines,
Tacolator,
Bobo-kun,
Piyopiyo Baba,
Howl's Moving Castle,
House Hunting,
Mon Mon the Water Spider,
The Day I Bought a Star,
Madaran's World,
Ponyo,
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess,
Treasure Hunting,
The Wind Rises,
Boro the Caterpillar,
The Boy and the Heron and
Sherlock Hound: The Movie.
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