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Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as its honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation.
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Born 5 January 1941 · Q55400
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2026· 20 entries
“s in-house monthly magazine. In a thinly veiled reference to Abe, he went on to accuse Japan”
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“tried to be a good father, but in the end [he] wasn”
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Cartoon Brew: Report: Studio Ghibli On Its Next Film, AI, Miyazaki’s Successor, And Why Having No Master Plan Is The Plan
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GeekTyrant: Hayao Miyazaki Is Showing Up to Work at Studio Ghibli Every Day, but Nobody Knows What He’s Making
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FandomWire: 38 Years Later, Studio Ghibli Officially Confirms Hayao Miyazaki’s Movie Sequel Fate
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Cooperativa: "Mi vecino Totoro", el clásico de Hayao Miyazaki, vuelve a los cines chilenos
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La Cuarta: Studio Ghibli no sabe cuál será su próxima película y Hayao Miyazaki sigue trabajando a los 85 años
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Redhill And Reigate Life: Hayao Miyazaki's Dreams by Mystery Ensemble
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Aquí te dateamos: Mundo Ghibli celebra la infancia y la naturaleza con “Mi vecino Totoro”, obra maestra de Miyazaki
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LOS40: La obra maestra de Hayao Miyazaki que todos quieren volver a ver regresa a los cines chilenos
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FM Plus: Regresa al cine chileno la obra maestra de Hayao Miyazaki
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Cinema Daily US: Hayao Miyazaki Is Working On Secret New Project
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OtakuKart: Studio Ghibli CEO says Hayao Miyazaki “comes to the studio every day,” but no one knows what he is working on
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World of Reel: Hayao Miyazaki Is Still Working at Studio Ghibli. Nobody Knows What He’s Making
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Creative Bloq: Quote of the Day by Hayao Miyazaki: "It’s a dangerous way to make an animated film, and I wish it could be different… we never know where the story will go, but we just keep working on the film as it develops"
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Collider: Every Hayao Miyazaki Fantasy Movie, Ranked
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los40.com: Selecta Visión viste de gala a 'Heidi': la obra maestra de Isao Takahata y Hayao Miyazaki llega por primera vez en una ambiciosa Edición Deluxe en Blu-ray
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Expansión: Hayao Miyazaki, el genio del cine de animación
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Though his exact projects remained unknown, even to those around him
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2024· 8 entries
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The Guardian: Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us
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The Guardian: My Neighbour Totoro review – Miyazaki’s supernatural masterpiece still enchants
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for The Boy and the Heron (2024).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film for The Boy and the Heron (2024).
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Awarded British Academy Film Awards for The Boy and the Heron (2024).
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The Guardian: ‘Irreplaceable’: will Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s animation auteur, ever retire?
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The Guardian: The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, wins Oscar for best animation
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2023· 4 entries
The Guardian: The Boy and the Heron review – overplotted Miyazaki still delights
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The Guardian: The Boy and the Heron review – Miyazaki’s mysterious, magical fantasy on grief and meaning
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The Guardian: Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘final’ film The Boy and the Heron hits No 1 at North American box office
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The Guardian: No country for old men? Why Miyazaki, Loach and Scott can’t stop making movies
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2019· 1 entry
Miyazaki approved a musical adaptation of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, as it was performed by a kabuki troupe
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2018· 1 entry
Clarified that his concern was about the comedic intent behind the zombie, and noted the "ridiculous" outcomes of overzealous reliance on artificial intelligence
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2016· 1 entry
Reminded of his friend with a disability
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2014· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2014).
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Awarded Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year for The Wind Rises (2014).
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Awarded Will Eisner Hall of Fame (2014).
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Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2014).
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2013· 4 entries
It received critical acclaim for its animation, narrative, and characters, though some viewers were critical of the film's focus on Horikoshi due to the impacts of his inventions and others were disappointed by its lack
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But later returned to make The Boy and the Heron (2023), which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
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Miyazaki recognized leftist values in his movies, citing his influence by communism as defined by Karl Marx, but criticized real experiments of socialism in countries like the Soviet Union
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Criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's proposed Constitutional amendment that would allow Abe to revise the clause outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (2012).
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Received the Academy Honorary Award for his impact on animation and cinema in 2014, and the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2024
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2011· 1 entry
And won Animation of the Year at the Japan Academy Awards
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (2009).
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Awarded Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year for Ponyo (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Ponyo was critically acclaimed, receiving Animation of the Year at the 32nd Japan Academy Film Prize
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded The Jim Henson Creativity Honor (2006).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Script for Howl's Moving Castle (2006).
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2005· 2 entries
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2005).
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Former princess Sayako Kuroda's wedding dress was reportedly inspired by Clarisse's, having been a fan of Miyazaki and his work
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2004· 1 entry
And received widespread critical acclaim
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Spirited Away (2003).
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2002· 6 entries
Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film for Spirited Away (2002).
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Won Golden Bear for Spirited Away (2002).
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Awarded Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production for Spirited Away (2002).
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Awarded Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production for Spirited Away (2002).
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Awarded Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year for Spirited Away (2002).
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“s Big Day Out, which screened from January 2002, and Mei and the Kittenbus, which screened from October. One of the short films, Imaginary Flying Machines, was later screened as in-flight entertainment by Japan Airlines alongside Porco Rosso. Howl”
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Kikuchi Kan Prize (2001).
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Awarded Asahi Prize (2001).
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Shiba Ryotaro Prize (1999).
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Taking an active role in employee organization
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A Japanese theme park engaged Studio Ghibli to create a 20-minute short film about cats; Miyazaki agreed on the condition that it featured returning characters from Whisper of the Heart
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year for Princess Mononoke (1998).
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1997· 3 entries
Princess Mononoke was critically acclaimed, becoming the first animated film nominated for the Japan Academy Film Prize for Picture of the Year, which it won
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Awarded Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director (1997).
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Miyazaki contributed to Visionaire, an arthouse magazine
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Winsor McCay Award (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Seiun Award for Best Comic (1995).
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1993· 1 entry
Where its home video release sold almost 500,000 copies
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1991· 1 entry
Affected Miyazaki, prompting a more sombre tone for Porco Rosso; the Croatian War of Independence moved the film's setting from Dubrovnik to the Adriatic Sea
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1990· 1 entry
Which led to major commercial success; merchandise profits alone were able to sustain the studio for years
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1989· 1 entry
While Topcraft's Tōru Hara became production manager; Suzuki's role in the creation of the studio and its films has led him to being occasionally named a co-founder, and Hara is often viewed as influential to the company
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1988· 2 entries
Saying "they show nothing but contempt for the audience"
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That fell through due to creative differences
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1987· 2 entries
And published in English as Shuna's Journey in 2022
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Studio Ghibli acquired the rights to create a film adaptation of Eiko Kadono's novel Kiki's Delivery Service
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1985· 2 entries
As a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten, with offices in Kichijōji designed by Miyazaki
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Writing and directing films such as Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), and Porco Rosso (1992), which were met with critical and commercial success in Japan
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1984· 1 entry
Miyazaki traveled to Wales, drawing the mining villages and communities of Rhondda; he witnessed the miners' strike and admired the miners' dedication to their work and community
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1983· 1 entry
With animation beginning in August; funding was provided through a joint venture between Tokuma Shoten and the advertising agency Hakuhodo, for whom Miyazaki's youngest brother worked
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1982· 2 entries
Miyazaki assisted with key animation for an unreleased Zorro series, and for the feature film Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie
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Miyazaki, Takahata, and Kondō started work on a film adaptation of Little Nemo, but Miyazaki and Takahata left after a few months due to creative clashes with Fujioka (Kondō remained until 1985); the film was completed s
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1981· 1 entry
Until legal issues with Arthur Conan Doyle's estate led to a suspension in production; Miyazaki was busy with other projects by the time the issues were resolved, and the remaining episodes were directed by Kyôsuke Mikur
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1979· 1 entry
To direct his first feature film, The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), and the television series Sherlock Hound (1984–1985)
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1977· 1 entry
Miyazaki was chosen to direct his first animated television series, Future Boy Conan; he directed 24 of the 26 episodes, which were broadcast in 1978
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1975· 1 entry
Before moving on to the larger-scale 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1976), directed by Takahata, for which Miyazaki traveled to Argentina and Italy as research
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1973· 1 entry
Miyazaki worked as an animator on World Masterpiece Theater and directed the television series Future Boy Conan (1978)
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1972· 3 entries
Miyazaki initially fulfilled a promise to his wife that they would both continue to work after Goro's birth, dropping him off at preschool for the day; however, upon seeing Goro's exhaustion walking home one day, Miyazaki decided they could not continue, and his wife quit in 1972 to stay at home and raise their children.
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And 1973, with Takahata as director and Ōtsuka as animation director
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Directed a five-minute pilot film for the television series Yuki's Sun; the series was never produced, and the pilot fell into obscurity before resurfacing as part of a Blu-ray release of Miyazaki's works in 2014
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1971· 2 entries
(though they went unused), provided key animation and storyboards for two episodes of Akado Suzunosuke in 1972, and delivered key animation for one episode each of Kōya no Shōnen Isamu (directed by Takahata) and Samurai
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Miyazaki developed structure, characters, and designs for Hiroshi Ikeda's adaptation of Animal Treasure Island, providing key animation and script development
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1964· 3 entries
To work on the film The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968); he was key animator, concept artist, and scene designer, credited as the latter
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Moved him, prompting him to continue working "with renewed determination"
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She and Miyazaki met at Toei in 1964, and they married in October 1965.
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1963· 4 entries
Studied at Gakushuin University (1963).
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Miyazaki was employed at Toei Doga; this was the last year the company hired regularly
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With degrees in political science and economics
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Working as an inbetween artist and key animator on films like Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965), The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968), and Animal Treasure Island (1971), before moving to A-Pro i
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1960· 1 entry
Miyazaki was a bystander during the Anpo protests, having developed an interest after seeing photographs in Asahi Graph; by that point, he was too late to participate in the demonstrations
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1950· 1 entry
Miyazaki completed the fourth grade at Ōmiya Elementary School, and fifth grade at Eifuku Elementary School, which was newly established after splitting off from Ōmiya Elementary
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1947· 1 entry
At an elementary school in Utsunomiya, completing the first through third grades
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1944· 1 entry
When he was three years old, Miyazaki's family evacuated to Utsunomiya
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1941· 3 entries
In the town Akebono-cho in Hongō, Tokyo City, Empire of Japan, the second of four sons
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Born 1941-01-05.
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“s end theme. Miyazaki struggled with the film”
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