Hayao Miyazaki

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born

January 05, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan

gender

male

website

http://www.ghibli.jp/

genre

Comics & Graphic Novels, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Ursula K. Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones, Lewis Carroll

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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

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Books by Hayao Miyazaki

Average rating: 4.47 · 9,064 ratings · 400 reviews · 109 distinct works

	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1 (風の谷のナウシカ, #1) 4.41 avg rating — 1,146 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, Vol. 1 4.47 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 2 (風の谷のナウシカ, #2) 4.49 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 3 (風の谷のナウシカ, #3) 4.55 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 4 (風の谷のナウシカ, #4) 4.55 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 5 (風の谷のナウシカ , #5) 4.59 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 6 (風の谷のナウシカ, #6) 4.58 avg rating — 433 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 7 (風の谷のナウシカ, #7) 4.57 avg rating — 445 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Howl's Moving Castle 4.58 avg rating — 285 ratings	My rating:
	The Art of Spirited Away 4.48 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Hayao Miyazaki

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (7 books)
by Hayao Miyazaki

4.52 avg rating — 4,374 ratings

Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (Perfect) (4 books)
by Hayao Miyazaki

4.56 avg rating — 1,382 ratings

Spirited Away (5 books)
by Hayao Miyazaki

4.35 avg rating — 1,031 ratings

Howl's Moving Castle Film Comics (4 books)
by Hayao Miyazaki, Diana Wynne Jones

4.39 avg rating — 871 ratings

My Neightbor Totoro: Film Comic (4 books)
by Hayao Miyazaki

4.44 avg rating — 372 ratings

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Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

“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

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

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“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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