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HAYAO MIYASAKI

Hayao Miyazaki was born January 5, 1941in Japan. He is a Japanese manga artist and

prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Along with Isao

Takahata, he co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company.

Miyazaki began his career at Toei Animation as an artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the

Moon where he contributed to the story with 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 continued to

produce many feature films until Princess Mononoke when he temporarily retired.

While his 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.

He incorporates recurrent themes in his movies, such as humanity's relationship to nature

and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. The protagonists of his

films are often strong, independent girls or young women. Miyazaki is a vocal critic of

capitalism and globalization