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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Tokyo, Japan, 1941-01-05

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1991	The Making of Only Yesterday	Self	100
2	1993	In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki	Self	100
3	1994	Manga!	Self	70
4	1997	The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper	Self	90
5	1997	The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It!	Self	100
6	1997	The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken	Self	100
7	1998	How Ghibli Was Born	Himself	60
8	1998	The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki	Himself	90
9	2001	The Nippon Television Special	Himself	100
10	2001	Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.	Himself	97
11	2002	The Cat Returns - Making of	Self	55
12	2002	Mei and the Kittenbus	Neko Bâchan (voice)	71
13	2002	"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"	Himself	65
14	2002	Imaginary Flying Machines	Le cochon	62
15	2003	The Art of 'Spirited Away'	Himself	87
16	2003	Lasseter-san, Thank You	Himself	0
17	2003	The Birth of Studio Ghibli		0
18	2004	Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece	Self	0
19	2004	Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion	Self	0
20	2004	Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD	Self	100
21	2005	Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery	Self - Interviewee	66
22	2005	Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum	Self	80
23	2006	The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People	Self	0
24	2007	A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest	Self	60
25	2008	Ghibli Landscapes - The Japan Depicted In Miyazaki's Works		0
26	2008	Making of Ponyo	Self	0
27	2008	25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert	Self - Filmmaker	93
28	2009	Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao	Self	0
29	2009	How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process	Self	80
30	2010	Ghibli's Bookshelf	self	0
31	2010	Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director	Himself	90
32	2011	Japanese Cinema: New Territories	Self	0
33	2011	Kurosawa's Way	Self	54
34	2011	Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son	Himself	80
35	2011	A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog		0
36	2011	Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point	Self	0
37	2012	Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo	Giant Robot (voice)	66
38	2013	Miwa: A Japanese Icon	Himself	63
39	2013	The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness	Self	76
40	2014	The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story	himself	87
41	2014	Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Self	70
42	2017	Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki	Self	74
43	2021	Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion	Self	86
44	2023	2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli	Self	0
45	2024	Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron	Self	79
46		The Secrets of My Neighbors the Yamadas		0
47	2025	Miyazaki	Self	60
48	2025	Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature	Self (stock footage)	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1		The Professionals	Himself	0
2	2006	Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi	Self	80
3	2019	10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki	Self	79

Hayao Miyazaki

Film

Television