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.
48 movies · 2 shows
Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature
2025·8.0
Miyazaki
2025·6.0
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
2024·7.8
2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
2023·0.0
Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
2021·8.6
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
2017·7.5
Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2014·6.7
The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
2014·8.7
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
2013·7.6
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013·6.3
Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
2012·6.6
Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
2011·0.0
A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
2011·0.0
Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
2011·7.5
Kurosawa's Way
2011·5.8
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011·0.0
Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
2010·9.0
Ghibli's Bookshelf
2010·0.0
How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process
2009·8.0
Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao
2009·0.0
25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
2008·9.3
NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen
2008·0.0
Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
2008·0.0
A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
2007·6.0
The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People
2006·0.0
Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum
2005·8.0
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
2005·7.2
Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD
2004·10.0
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion
2004·0.0
Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece
2004·7.0
Lasseter-san, Thank You
2003·0.0
The Birth of Studio Ghibli
2003·0.0
The Art of 'Spirited Away'
2003·8.2
"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"
2002·6.5
Imaginary Flying Machines
2002·6.2
Mei and the Kittenbus
2002·7.2
The Cat Returns - Making of
2002·7.8
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper
2001·9.0
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001·9.7
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It!
2001·10.0
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken
2001·10.0
The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away
2001·10.0
Super TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"
2000·0.0
The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki
1998·9.0
How Ghibli Was Born
1998·6.0
Manga!
1994·7.0
In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki
1993·10.0
The Making of Only Yesterday
1991·10.0