Hayao Miyazaki
Biography
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.
Acting (45 movies)
Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao
2009
Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
2021
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion
2004
Mei and the Kittenbus
2002
Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
2011
Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
2012
Kurosawa's Way
2011
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
2013
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper
1997
Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2014
25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
2008
A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
2011
2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
2023
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
2024
Super TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"
2000
Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece
2004
The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki
1998
Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature
2025
Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD
2004
Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum
2005
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
2017
The Nippon Television Special
2001
Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
2011
The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
2014
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
2005
The Art of 'Spirited Away'
2003
How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process
2009
How Ghibli Was Born
1998
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken
1997
A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
2007
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It!
1997
In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki
1993
"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"
2002
Imaginary Flying Machines
2002
The Making of Only Yesterday
1991
Lasseter-san, Thank You
2003
Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
2010
The Cat Returns - Making of
2002
Manga!
1994
Ghibli's Bookshelf
2010
Ghibli Landscapes - The Japan Depicted In Miyazaki's Works
2008
The Birth of Studio Ghibli
2003
Miyazaki
2025
Directing (39 movies)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
1984
Princess Mononoke
1997
Spirited Away
2001
Castle in the Sky
1986
Howl's Moving Castle
2004
Porco Rosso
1992
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Ponyo
2008
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
1979
Kiki's Delivery Service
1989
The Sky-Colored Seed
1992
House Hunting
2006
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
1995
Mei and the Kittenbus
2002
The Wind Rises
2013
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
2010
Imaginary Flying Machines
2002
Koro's Big Day Out
2002
The Whale Hunt
2001
Mon Mon the Water Spider
2006
The Day I Bought a Star
2006
Nandarou
1992
Sherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea
1984
Yuki's Sun
1972
Sherlock Hound: The Movie
2024
Future Boy Conan
1979
Boro the Caterpillar
2018
The Boy and the Heron
2023
Sherlock Hound: Mrs. Hudson Is Taken Hostage / The White Cliffs of Dover
1986
Treasure Hunting
2011
A Splendid Dance
2001
Rambutan Adventures
2001
The Fish of the Fish
2001
Tacolator
2002
Bobo-kun
2002
Madaran's World
2007
Piyopiyo Baba
2002
Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
1984
On Your Mark
1995