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The first Miyazaki feature to be shot using a 100% digital process; the first film to gross $200 million worldwide before opening in North America; the film to finally overtake Titanic at the Japanese box office, becoming the top-grossing film in the history of Japanese cinema: Spirited Away
They are totally independent manga stories, mecha ideas, or movie ideas about tanks, planes, or battle ships from the era before World War II - the "favorites" of Miyazaki. Hikōtei Jidai (The Age of the Flying Boat) 1989 A 15-page all watercolor manga, which the animated film Porco Rosso is based on.
Spirited Away was a co-recipient of the Golden Bear with Bloody Sunday at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival and became the first hand-drawn, Japanese anime and non-English-language animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards. [16]
Lawrence of Arabia (1962). David Lean’s First World War epic about TE Lawrence remains a filmmaking milestone, the movie that Steven Spielberg rewatches before starting each new film.
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]
Spirited Away was released on July 20, 2001; it received critical acclaim, and is considered among the greatest films of the 2000s. [44] The film was also commercially successful, earning ¥30.4 billion (US$289.1 million) at the box office. [45] It became the highest-grossing film in Japan, [46] a record it maintained for almost 20 years. [b]
The film achieved the second-largest gross for a domestic film in Japan, behind Spirited Away, and the fourth-largest ever, behind Titanic and Frozen. [64] It is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than $100 million (~¥10 billion) at the Japanese box office. [26]
Miyu Irino (入野 自由, Irino Miyu, born February 19, 1988) is a Japanese actor and singer. He voiced Haku in Spirited Away, Shoya Ishida in A Silent Voice, Sena Kobayakawa in Eyeshield 21, Jinta "Jintan" Yadomi in Anohana, Syaoran in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Yuichiro Hyakuya in Seraph of the End, Episode in the Monogatari (series), Kōshi Sugawara in Haikyu!!, Nuts in Yes!