Hayao Miyazaki
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Hayao Miyazaki is a highly influential Japanese animator, screenwriter, character designer, and animated film director. His films have won many awards, including the Animage Anime Grand Prix award for Laputa: Castle in the Sky in 1986, My Neighbor Totoro in 1988, and Kiki's Delivery Service in 1989. In 2002, Spirited Away won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the first anime film to win an Academy Award. These features were all produced by the film Studio Ghibli, founded in 1985 and headed by Hayao Miyazaki.
Miyazaki is known for his collaborations with Isao Takahata, who co-founded Studio Ghibli. His animation work has overshadowed a substantial career in writing and illustrating Manga. Some of his films are based on Manga series by himself and other authors.
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[edit] Manga
- The Journey of Shuna (Shuna no Tabi, 1-volume, 1983)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, (seven volumes, 1982 to 1994)
- The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu, 2009)
[edit] Animated films
- The Castle of Cagliostro, a Lupin III adventure film (Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro, 1979)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika, 1984)
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky / Castle in the Sky' (Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta, 1986)
- My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro, 1988)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no Takkyūbin, 1989)
- Porco Rosso (Kurenai no Buta, 1992)
- Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-Hime, 1997)
- Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, 2001)
- Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no Ugoku Shiro, 2004) - based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones
- Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no Ue no Ponyo, 2008)
[edit] Television
- Lupin III - (1971) co-director (with Takahata) of the second half of the first television series, and director of two episodes of the second series.
