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Hayao Miyazaki

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

  • Fame69.3
  • Momentum0.0
  • Japan rank#233
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Born 1941 · age 85Japan
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    99 languages
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  • Rank in Japan
    #233
    Directors
  • Age
    85
    Born 1941
  • Known for
    Spirited Away
    2001
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Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

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.

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Profile type
Movie Director
Category
Directors
Country
Japan
Country rank
#233
Category rank
#97
Last updated
2026-06-08
Biography

About

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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Hayao Miyazaki
said · 2016
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.
— on the topic of AI-generated art (2016) YouTube clip from Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki; Responses to a group of designers' presentation
Hayao Miyazaki
said · 2009
Most people depend on the internet and cellphones to survive, but what happens when they stop working?
— (2009) Independent News article 2009
Hayao Miyazaki
said · 8 Jun 2007
It's difficult. [My female protagonists] immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko (play toy for Lolita Complex males).
— 1988 interview with Animage, Animage, vol. 125, November 1988. Retrieved June 8, 2007.
Hayao Miyazaki
said · 2005
I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations.
— (2005) The Guardian article
Hayao Miyazaki
said · 2005
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?
— on the topic of hand-drawn animation (2005) The Guardian article
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    Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
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    British Academy Film Awards
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    Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
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    Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year
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    Academy Honorary Award
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    Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
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    Will Eisner Hall of Fame
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    Person of Cultural Merit
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69.3
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Now attention17.0
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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#233
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#97
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Country
Japan
Category
Directors
Profile type
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Status
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Born
January 5, 1941
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Last updated
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