Hayao Miyazaki

Known for DirectingBorn 1941-01-05 (age 85)Tokyo, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD

The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away

The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken

The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It!

In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki

Everything Ghibli Special Short Shorts

The Making of Only Yesterday

Sherlock Hound: Mrs. Hudson Is Taken Hostage / The White Cliffs of Dover

Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert

Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director

The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper

The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki

The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story

Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion

Spirited Away

Howl's Moving Castle

Princess Mononoke

Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature

Sherlock Hound: The Movie

Spirited Away: Live on Stage

The Art of 'Spirited Away'

Future Boy Conan

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron

How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process

The Story of Yanagawa's Canals

Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi

Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum

My Neighbor Totoro

10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki

La luna

The Wind Rises

Toy Story 3

Ponyo

Castle in the Sky

The Day I Bought a Star

Whisper of the Heart

The Cat Returns - Making of

Warriors of the Wind

The Secret World of Arrietty

Kiki's Delivery Service

Porco Rosso

Lupin the 3rd

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

From Up on Poppy Hill

The Boy and the Heron

Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son