Hayao Miyazaki





Hayao Miyazaki

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January 05, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan

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宮崎 駿

Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo on January 5, 1941. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible ability to draw, and the seemingly-endless stream of movie ideas he proposed.

In 1971, he moved to A Pro with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, where he was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. In 1978, he directed his first TV series, Conan, The Boy in Future, then moved to Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first movie, the classic Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro.

In 1984, he released Nausicaä of...more


Average rating: 4.47 · 9,064 ratings · 400 reviews · 109 distinct works
Nausicaä of the Valley of t...
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 1,146 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions
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4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 1995
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4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions
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4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions
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4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions
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4.59 of 5 stars 4.59 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 433 ratings9 editions
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4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 445 ratings9 editions
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The Art of Howl's Moving Ca...
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Art of Spirited Away
4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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“We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. ”
Hayao Miyazaki

“I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".”
Hayao Miyazaki

“I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.”
Hayao Miyazaki

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