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 Cagl...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
2008
Mei and the Kittenbus
2002
A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
2011
Imaginary Flying Machines
2002
Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
2012
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
2013
The Art of 'Spirited Away'
2003
Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature
2025
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
2024
A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
2007
"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"
2002
Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2014
Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
2008
Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
2021
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
2005
Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece
2004
Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
2010
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
2017
Kurosawa's Way
2011
Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum
2005
The Making of Only Yesterday
1991
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013
Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
2011
Lasseter-san, Thank You
2003
The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki
1998
2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
2023
The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
2014
Ghibli's Bookshelf
2010
The Cat Returns - Making of
2002
How Ghibli Was Born
1998
Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD
2004
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion
2004
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001
The Birth of Studio Ghibli
2003
The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away
2001
How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process
2009
In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki
1993
Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao
2009