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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.
The studio went bankrupt and dissolved on June 15, 1985, essentially splitting the studio in half. Ghibli was founded after the advice of Tokuma Shoten and the success of Topcraft's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. [1] Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata acquired the assets and formed Studio Ghibli. Topcraft's founder, Toru Hara ...
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. With Hayao Miyazaki, the de facto ...
He became a contract worker for Nippon Animation afterwards and moved to Studio Ghibli in January, 1987. In 1995, he made his directorial debut with the film Whisper of the Heart . On January 21, 1998, he died suddenly of an aortic dissection in the Tachikawa City Hospital in Tokyo at age 47.
Studio Ghibli, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社スタジオジブリ, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Jiburi) [3] is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo. [4] It has a strong presence in the animation industry and has expanded its portfolio to include various media formats, such as short subjects, television commercials, and two television films.
Makiko Futaki (二木真希子 Futaki Makiko; June 19, 1958 – May 13, 2016) was a Japanese animator best known for her contributions to Studio Ghibli on films such as My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Spirited Away (2001).
Shinya Ohira (Japanese: 大平晋也, Hepburn: Ōhira Shin'ya, born December 12, 1966) is a Japanese animator, director and character designer.He is known for his animation style with constantly shifting linework, described as being both realistic and surreal. [2]