Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Movies and TV Shows

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.[3] 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.

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 1/5/1941 (83 years old)
  • Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
  • nationality: Japanese
  • height: 1.64 m
  • Net worth: $50,000,000
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
The Boy and the Heron
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 74%
role:
Original Story
Not available
2023

Adventure

Animation

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.6
74%
Not available
Earwig and the Witch
IMDB 4.7
TMDB 49%
role:
Story Developer
2021

Animation

Family

TV Movie

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4.7
49%
2017

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.8
71%
2015

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.3
73%
The Wind Rises
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 78%
role:
Comic Book & 2 more
2013

Animation

Drama

History

Romance

War & Politics

7.8
78%
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La luna
IMDB 7.9
TMDB 79%
role:
Thanks
2012

Animation

Family

7.9
79%
2011

Animation

Drama

7.4
76%
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 70%
role:
Director & 2 more
Not available
2010

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.6
70%
Not available
The Secret World of Arrietty
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 77%
role:
Executive Producer & 1 more
2010

Animation

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.6
77%
Toy Story 3
IMDB 8.3
TMDB 78%
role:
Thanks
2010

Animation

Comedy

Family

8.3
78%
Ponyo
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 77%
role:
Original Story & 1 more
2008

Animation

Family

7.6
77%
2007

Documentary

7.7
76%
The Day I Bought a Star
IMDB 8.2
TMDB 73%
role:
Screenplay & 1 more
Not available
2006

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.2
73%
Not available
Mon Mon the Water Spider
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 71%
role:
Director & 3 more
2006

Animation

7.6
71%
Howl's Moving Castle
IMDB 8.2
TMDB 84%
role:
Executive Producer & 2 more
2004

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.2
84%
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The Cat Returns
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 72%
role:
Production Coordinator
2002

Adventure

Animation

Drama

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.1
72%
Mei and the Kittenbus
IMDB 8.0
TMDB 70%
role:
Neko Bâchan (Voice) & 3 more
Not available
2002

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.0
70%
Not available
Spirited Away
IMDB 8.6
TMDB 85%
role:
Original Story & 1 more
2001

Animation

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.6
85%
Princess Mononoke
IMDB 8.3
TMDB 83%
role:
Original Story & 1 more
1997

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.3
83%
Whisper of the Heart
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 79%
role:
Storyboard Artist & 1 more
1995

Animation

Drama

Family

7.8
79%
Pom Poko
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 72%
role:
Story
1994

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.3
72%
Porco Rosso
IMDB 7.7
TMDB 78%
role:
Comic Book & 1 more
1992

Adventure

Animation

Comedy

7.7
78%
Only Yesterday
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 73%
role:
Executive Producer
1991

Animation

Drama

Romance

7.6
73%
Kiki's Delivery Service
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 78%
role:
Producer & 2 more
1989

Adventure

Animation

Drama

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.8
78%
My Neighbor Totoro
IMDB 8.1
TMDB 81%
role:
Original Story & 1 more
1988

Animation

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.1
81%
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Castle in the Sky
IMDB 8.0
TMDB 80%
role:
Original Story & 1 more
1986

Action

Adventure

Animation

Family

Romance

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.0
80%
1984

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.0
79%
1978

Action

Adventure

Animation

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Kids

8.8
88%
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 76%
role:
Animation & 1 more
Not available
1976

Action

Adventure

Animation

Drama

7.3
76%
Not available

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Hayao Miyazaki are, for example, Earwig and the Witch, Mary and The Witch's Flower and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
The streaming services with the largest selection are iTunes, Amazon and Google Play.
The best Anystream ratings are Conan, the Boy in Future (8.8), Spirited Away (8.5) and Howl's Moving Castle (8.3).
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