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Hayao Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, in the town Akebono-cho in Hongō, Tokyo City, Empire of Japan, the second of four sons. [1] [2] [3] [note 1] His father, Katsuji Miyazaki (born 1915), [1] was the director of Miyazaki Airplane, his brother's company, [5] which manufactured rudders for fighter planes during World War II. [4]
Isao Takahata (高畑 勲, Takahata Isao, October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018) was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer.A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films.
Studio Ghibli was founded on June 15, 1985, by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, after acquiring Topcraft's assets. Four of the studio's films are among the ten highest-grossing Japanese feature films; Spirited Away is third, grossing 31.68 billion yen in Japan and over US$380 million worldwide.
Pom Poko screenshot. Studio Ghibli, the famous anime film studio behind classics like Spirited Away, Ponyo, and My Neighbour Totoro, has been facing a bit of a crisis in recent years.
Japanese film director and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki has been chosen for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, often referred to as Asia’s Nobel Prize.. The award recognises Mr ...
The Tokyo-based Studio Ghibli, which was launched in the mid-1980s, is where Miyazaki, one of the studio’s co-founders, made his Oscar-winning 2023 animated feature “The Boy and the Heron ...
My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.The film–which stars the voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi–tells the story of the two young daughters (Satsuki and Mei) of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in ...
The iconic Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli, which created internationally beloved films including “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away,” has been sold to Nippon TV after ...