
Directing
Community Rating
7.9
TMDB estimate
Born
January 5, 1941 (age 85)
Born in
Tokyo, Japan
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.

Mei and the Kittenbus
Totoro (voice)
2002

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Self
2013

Ghibli Scenery: A Journey to Japan Painted in Miyazaki’s Works
2008

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
Self
2017

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
Self
2024

Kurosawa's Way
Self
2011

Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
Giant Robot (voice)
2012

Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
Self
2021

25th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert
Self - Filmmaker
2008

Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Self
2014

The Cat Returns - Making of
Self
2002

Ghibli's Bookshelf
self
2010

A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest
Self
2007

Imaginary Flying Machines
Le cochon
2002

The Birth of Studio Ghibli
2003

Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature
Self (archive footage)
2025

Lasseter-san, Thank You
Himself
2003

Miwa: A Japanese Icon
Himself
2013

Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD
Self
2004

2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli
Self
2023

Spirited Away
Director
2001

Howl's Moving Castle
Director
2004

Princess Mononoke
Director
1997

My Neighbor Totoro
Director
1988

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Director
1984

Kiki's Delivery Service
Director
1989

The Boy and the Heron
Director
2023

The Castle of Cagliostro
Director
1979

Castle in the Sky
Director
1986

Ponyo
Director
2008

Porco Rosso
Director
1992

The Wind Rises
Director
2013

Future Boy Conan
Director
1979

Mei and the Kittenbus
Director
2002

Sherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea
Director
1984

Sherlock Hound: The Movie
Director
2024

The Day I Bought a Star
Director
2006

Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
Director
1984

Sherlock Hound: Mrs. Hudson Is Taken Hostage / The White Cliffs of Dover
Director
1986

Koro's Big Day Out
Director
2002