Hayao Miyazaki
- Directing
- January 5, 1941 · Tokyo, Japan
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Story of Yanagawa Waterways · Executive producer
- Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature · Self
- Miyazaki · Self
- Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron · Self
- Sherlock Hound: The Movie · Director, Storyboard
- Stage 『Spirited Away』 · Story
- 2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli · Self
- The Boy and the Heron · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Spirited Away: Live on Stage · Story
- Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion · Self
- 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki · Self
- Boro the Caterpillar · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki · Self
- Mary and The Witch's Flower · Thanks
- Avengers: Age of Ultron · Thanks
- Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya · Self
- Japan Animator Expo · Title Designer
- The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story · Self
- The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness · Self
- Miwa: A Japanese Icon · Self
- The Wind Rises · Screenplay, Director
- Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo · Giant Robot (Voice), Character Designer
- La luna · Thanks
- Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point · Self
- A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
- Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son · Self
- From Up on Poppy Hill · Screenplay
- Treasure Hunting · Director, Screenplay
- Kurosawa's Way · Self
- Japanese Cinema: New Territories · Self
- Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess · Director, Writer
- Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director · Self
- Ghibli's Bookshelf · Self
- Arrietty · Screenplay, Other
- Toy Story 3 · Thanks
- A Sumo Wrestler's Tail · Screenplay
- How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process · Self
- Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao · Self
- The Theory of Evolution · Director of Operations
- 25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert · Self
- NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen · Self
- Ponyo · Director, Writer
- Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
- A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest · Self
- The Pixar Story · Thanks
- Madaran's World · Storyboard Artist, Screenplay
- Tales from Earthsea · Story
- The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People · Self
- Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi · Self
- House Hunting · Producer, Director
- Mon Mon the Water Spider · Producer, Director
- The Day I Bought a Star · Director, Screenplay
- Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum · Self
- Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery · Self
- Howl's Moving Castle · Director, Screenplay
- Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD · Self
- Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion · Self
- Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece · Self
- Lasseter-san, Thank You · Self
- The Birth of Studio Ghibli
- The Art of 'Spirited Away' · Self
- Tacolator · Storyboard Artist, Screenplay
- Bobo-kun · Storyboard Artist, Screenplay
- Piyopiyo Baba · Storyboard Artist, Director
- "The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!" · Self
- Imaginary Flying Machines · Le cochon, Director
- The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction · Author
- Mei and the Kittenbus · Totoro (Voice), Director
- The Cat Returns · Production Coordinator, Original Concept
- The Cat Returns - Making of · Self
- Koro's Big Day Out · Writer, Director
- The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction - First Storyboards, in Motion Short Director · Story
- The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper · Self
- Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A. · Self
- The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It! · Self
- The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken · Self
- The Whale Hunt · Director, Writer
- A Splendid Dance · Storyboard Artist, Screenplay
- Rambutan Adventures · Storyboard Artist, Screenplay
- The Fish of the Fish · Storyboard Artist, Screenplay