Directing · Tokyo, Japan · Born January 5, 1941
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.
MovieMiyazaki, Spirit of Nature
2025
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMiyazaki
2025
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MovieHayao Miyazaki and the Heron
2024
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Movie2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
2023
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MovieHideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
2021
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TV10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki
2019
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MovieNever-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
2017
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MovieIsao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2014
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MovieThe Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
2014
as himself
MovieThe Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
2013
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MovieMiwa: A Japanese Icon
2013
as Himself
MovieGiant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
2012
as Giant Robot (voice)
MovieGhibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
2011
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MovieA Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
2011
MoviePoppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
2011
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MovieKurosawa's Way
2011
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MovieJapanese Cinema: New Territories
2011
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MovieInside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
2010
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MovieGhibli's Bookshelf
2010
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MovieHow Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process
2009
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MovieProfessional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao
2009
as Self
Movie25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
2008
as Self - Filmmaker
MovieNEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen
2008
as Self
MovieGhibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
2008
MovieA Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
2007
as Self
MovieThe Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People
2006
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TVProfessional: Shigoto no ryûgi
2006
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MovieHayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum
2005
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MovieGhibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
2005
as Self - Interviewee
MovieHayao Miyazaki Produces a CD
2004
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MovieYasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion
2004
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MoviePrincess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece
2004
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MovieLasseter-san, Thank You
2003
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MovieThe Birth of Studio Ghibli
2003
MovieThe Art of 'Spirited Away'
2003
as Himself
Movie"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"
2002
as Himself
MovieImaginary Flying Machines
2002
as Le cochon
MovieMei and the Kittenbus
2002
as Totoro (voice)
MovieThe Cat Returns - Making of
2002
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MovieThe Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper
2001
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MoviePrincess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001
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MovieThe Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It!
2001
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MovieThe Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken
2001
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MovieThe Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away
2001
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MovieSuper TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"
2000
MovieThe World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki
1998
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MovieHow Ghibli Was Born
1998
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MovieManga!
1994
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MovieIn Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki
1993
as Self
MovieThe Making of Only Yesterday
1991
as Self
Movie吉卜力工作室完整特别短片合辑1992-2016
as 导演
宮崎駿スペシャル 「風立ちぬ」1000日の記録
宮崎駿 引退宣言 知られざる物語
TVThe Professionals
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