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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 Animati…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Hayao Miyazaki's Filmography
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Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature
as Self (archive footage)
Miyazaki
as Self
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
as Self
2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
as Self
Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
as Self
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
as Self
Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
as Self
The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
as Self
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
as Self
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
as Self
Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
as Giant Robot (voice)
Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
as Self
A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
as Self
Kurosawa's Way
as Self
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
as Self
Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
as Self
Ghibli's Bookshelf
as self
How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process
as Self
Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao
as Self
25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
as Self - Filmmaker
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NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen
as Self
Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
as Self
The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People
as Self
Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum
as Self
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
as Self - Interviewee
Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD
as Self
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion
as Self
Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece
as Self
Lasseter-san, Thank You
as Self
The Birth of Studio Ghibli
The Art of 'Spirited Away'
as Self
"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"
as Self
Imaginary Flying Machines
as Le cochon
Mei and the Kittenbus
as Totoro (voice)
The Cat Returns - Making of
as Self
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
as Self
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken
as Self
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper
as Self
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It!
as Self
The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away
as Self
Super TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"
The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki
as Self
How Ghibli Was Born
as Self
Manga!
as Self
In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki
as Self
The Making of Only Yesterday
as Self
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宮崎駿 引退宣言 知られざる物語
吉卜力工作室完整特别短片合辑1992-2016
as 导演
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