Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)
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He turned hand-drawn animation into high art, building worlds where girl-heroines fly delivery brooms and forest gods bleed. Miyazaki's films — Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro — reshaped what animated features could mean, and won him two Oscars across four decades.
Born in Tokyo in 1941, Miyazaki started as an inbetween artist at Toei Animation in 1963, working his way through key animation and television direction before sketching the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1982 and directing its 1984 film adaptation. He co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1985, then spent the next decades writing and directing Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Porco Rosso — all commercial hits in Japan. Princess Mononoke in 1997 became the country's highest-grossing film and opened Western markets; Spirited Away in 2001 took that b…
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Every morning, not in recent days, I see my friend who has a disability. It’s so hard for him just to do a high five; his arm with stiff muscle can’t reach out to my hand.
Most people depend on the internet and cellphones to survive, but what happens when they stop working?
It's difficult. [My female protagonists] immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko (play toy for Lolita Complex males).
I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations.
If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now?
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