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FILM DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, SCREENWRITER, ANIMATOR, AND MANGA ARTIST.

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Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, in Tokyo. He was one of four sons of
Katsuji Miyazaki, who worked in the family business Miyazaki Airplanes, which
manufactured parts for warplanes. Miyazaki indicated later in life that he felt
guilty that his family had profited from Japan's efforts in World War II. His
dislike of militarism would be reflected in such films as Nausicaä of the Valley
of the Wind and Porco Rosso . Partly to escape the American bombing of Tokyo and
partly to be closer to the Miyazaki Airplanes factory in Kanuma City, Katsuji
Miyazaki moved his family to Utsunomiya City, where they lived from 1944 to
1946. During this period the young Hayao may have become familiar with the
forest that would figure prominently in My Neighbor Totoro . His mother was sick
with spinal tuberculosis from 1947 to 1955, staying in a hospital for three of
those years; this state of affairs prefigured the family situation presented in
My Neighbor Totoro.

In 1958 Miyazaki became interested in animated movies, his imagination having
been stirred by Hakujaden (Legend of the White Snake), a motion picture that was
produced by Toei Animation and was Japan's first color feature-length anime. At
that time, however, Miyazaki wanted to be not an animator but a comic-book
artist. He majored in economics and political science at Gakushuin University,
graduating in 1963, but his heart was in the arts, especially as they appealed
to children; he pursued his interest in comic books as a member of the
university's children's literature club.

In April 1963 Miyazaki became an animator for Toei Animation, which produced
both theatrical motion pictures and television series. He was taught the basics
of animation and began at the bottom of the artistic hierarchy, laboriously
filling in the cel-by-cel movements of characters and objects; he found the work
enjoyable and therein probably learned to accurately draw characters. He
impressed many of his coworkers with his fertile imagination and proposed
numerous story ideas to the studio; he quickly became a leader in the animators'
union. In 1964 he met the animator Akemi Ota, who would become his wife in 1968.
That year the first motion picture in which he played a major role was released:
Prince of the Sun , a collaboration with the chief animator Yasuo Otsuka and the
director Isao Takahata. Takahata would later serve as the producer for some of
Miyazaki's own movies.

TIMELINE OF MIYAZAKI'S ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER :


+ 1979 : The Castle of Cagliostro
+ 1982 : Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Manga)
+ 1984 : Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Film
+ 1985 : Studio Ghibli Established
+ 1986 : Laputa : Castle in the Sky
+ 1988 : My Neighbor Tororo
+ 1989 : KiKi's Delivery Service
+ 1992 : Porco Rosso
+ 1997 : Princess Mononoke
+ 2001 : Spirited Away
+ 2004 : Howl's Moving Castle
+ 2008 : Ponyo
+ 2013 : The Wind Rises

Background image: To the Sixth Station
Profile Image: Hayao Miyazaki Collage
Timeline source: Studio Ghibli

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Hayao Miyazaki's Early Life