Directing
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.
Filmography
Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature
Film · 2025
Miyazaki
Film · 2025
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
Film · 2024
2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
Film · 2023
Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
Film · 2021
10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki
Series · 2019
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
Film · 2017
Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Film · 2014
The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
Film · 2014
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Film · 2013
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
Film · 2013
Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
Film · 2012
Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
Film · 2011
Kurosawa's Way
Film · 2011
A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
Film · 2011
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Film · 2011
Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son
Film · 2011
Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director
Film · 2010
Ghibli's Bookshelf
Film · 2010
Professional Special: Director Miyazaki Hayao
Film · 2009
How Ponyo Was Born: Hayao Miyazaki's Thought Process
Film · 2009
25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
Film · 2008
NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen
Film · 2008
Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
Film · 2008
A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
Film · 2007
The Work of Toshio Suzuki Don't Believe in Myself, I Believe in People
Film · 2006
Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi
Series · 2006
Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum
Film · 2005
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
Film · 2005
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion
Film · 2004
Princess Mononoke: Making of a Masterpiece
Film · 2004
Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD
Film · 2004
The Art of 'Spirited Away'
Film · 2003
Lasseter-san, Thank You
Film · 2003
The Birth of Studio Ghibli
Film · 2003
Mei and the Kittenbus
Film · 2002
"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"
Film · 2002
Imaginary Flying Machines
Film · 2002
The Cat Returns - Making of
Film · 2002
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 1: A Drama on Paper
Film · 2001
The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away
Film · 2001
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
Film · 2001
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 3: The Day The Record Was Broken
Film · 2001
The Birth of "Princess Mononoke" Part 2: Life Has Been Breathed Into It!
Film · 2001
Super TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"
Film · 2000
The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Hayao Miyazaki
Film · 1998
How Ghibli Was Born
Film · 1998
Manga!
Film · 1994
In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki
Film · 1993
The Making of Only Yesterday
Film · 1991
吉卜力工作室完整特别短片合辑1992-2016
Film
宮崎駿スペシャル 「風立ちぬ」1000日の記録
Film
宮崎駿 引退宣言 知られざる物語
Film
The Professionals
Series