🎬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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron (2024)	Self	-	-
2	Spirited Away: Live on Stage (2023)	Director / Writer	-	-
3	The Boy and the Heron (2023)	Director / Writer		7.1
4	Boro the Caterpillar (2018)	Director / Writer	-	-
5	Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (2017)	Self		7
6	The Wind Rises (2013) Oscars 2014	Director / Writer		7.7
7	The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)	Self		8.7
8	Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012)	Director / Writer		7.5
9	Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son (2011)	Himself	-	-
10	Kurosawa's Way (2011)	Self	-	-
11	From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)	Director / Writer		7.8
12	Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess (2010)	Director / Writer		8
13	The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)	Director / Writer		7.8
14	A Sumo Wrestler's Tail (2010)	Director / Writer	-	-
15	25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert (2008)	Self - Filmmaker		10
16	Ponyo (2008)	Director / Writer		7.9
17	A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest (2007)	Self	-	-
18	The Day I Bought a Star (2006)	Director / Writer	-	-
19	Tales from Earthsea (2006)	Director / Writer		6
20	House Hunting (2006)	Director / Writer	-	-
21	Mon Mon the Water Spider (2006)	Director / Writer		6
22	Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery (2005)	Self - Interviewee	-	-
23	Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Oscars 2006	Director / Writer		8.4
24	Koro's Big Day Out (2002)	Director / Writer	-	-
25	Mei and the Kittenbus (2002)	Director / Writer		8
26	Imaginary Flying Machines (2002)	Director / Writer	-	-
27	The Cat Returns (2002)	Director / Writer		7.6
28	Spirited Away (2001) Oscars 2003	Director / Writer		8.6
29	The Whale Hunt (2001)	Director / Writer		9
30	Princess Mononoke (1997)	Director / Writer		8.2
31	Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers (1995)	Director / Writer	-	-
32	On Your Mark (1995)	Director / Writer		7
33	Whisper of the Heart (1995)	Director / Writer		7.9
34	The Sky-Colored Seed (1992)	Director / Writer		5.5
35	Nandarou (1992)	Director / Writer		5
36	Porco Rosso (1992)	Director / Writer		7.5
37	Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)	Director / Writer		8
38	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)	Director / Writer		8.1
39	Castle in the Sky (1986)	Director / Writer		7.9
40	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)	Director / Writer		8.2
41	The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)	Director / Writer		7.3
42	Tenguri, Boy of the Plains (1977)	Director / Writer		4
43	Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus (1973)	Director / Writer	-	-
44	Yuki's Sun (1972)	Director / Writer		6
45	Panda! Go Panda! (1972)	Director / Writer		6.3
46	Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1971)	Director / Writer		7