poster · spirited away (2001)
Film · 2001
Spirited Away
Japan · Animation, Fantasy
Director · Animator · Screenwriter
Hayao Miyazaki
JapanACTIVE 1963–present
portrait · miyazaki at the drawing board
- Born
- 5 January 1941 · Tokyo, Japan
- Nationality
- Japan
- Professions
- Director, Animator, Screenwriter
- Active
- 1963–present
Co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki keeps hand-drawn animation alive as a total art form: aeroplanes, forests, brave girls and the conviction that the fantastic lives next door.
Spirited Away won the Golden Bear and the Oscar; The Boy and the Heron, made at 82, repeated the feat at the 2024 ceremony.
Career
- 1963–1984
- Animator at Toei; Future Boy Conan and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
- 1985–2013
- Founding of Ghibli; Totoro, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.
- 2016–2023
- Comes back from retirement for The Boy and the Heron.
Key works
Recommendations · Physical media and books
Where to find it — Hayao Miyazaki
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Starting Point, by Hayao Miyazaki — writingsBook · In English
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