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Hayao Miyazaki

Born
Jan 5, 1941 · Age 85
Place of birth
Tokyo, Japan
Gender
Male
Movie credits
51
TV credits
3
Directing credits
39
Also known as (3)
  • Сабуро Акицу
  • Akitsu Saburo
  • Hayao Miýazaki

Biography

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…