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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.
As director
Sherlock Hound: The Movie
The Boy and the Heron
Boro the Caterpillar
The Wind Rises
Treasure Hunting
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
Ponyo
Madaran's World
House Hunting
Mon Mon the Water Spider
The Day I Bought a Star
Howl's Moving Castle
Mei and the Kittenbus
Imaginary Flying Machines
Koro's Big Day Out
Tacolator
Bobo-kun
Piyopiyo Baba
Spirited Away
The Whale Hunt
A Splendid Dance
Rambutan Adventures
The Fish of the Fish
Princess Mononoke
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
Chage & Aska: On Your Mark
Porco Rosso
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Castle in the Sky
As actor
Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature
Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
Kurosawa's Way
A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
Ghibli's Bookshelf
Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao
How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process
25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen
Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People
Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion
Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece
Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD