Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese film director, animator, manga artist, producer, and screenwriter. Through his animation career that has spanned over fifty years, Miyazaki has been loved and highly recognized by the public with his high quality works full of imagination. People enjoy his animated films not only because his films are distinct from those animation which portrait love and romantic, or violence and war, but also because of the hidden meaning in his films. While many people think he is the most admired and influential filmmaker working in animation today, he is also one of few animators which the public can identify by name. Nevertheless, the success of his animated films has earned him the international acclaim as the one of most successful makers of animated films. Miyazaki has even been compared with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park, as well as American director Robert Zemeckis (Morrison).
Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. In 1963, he graduated from Gakushuin University with degrees in Political Science and Economics. Instead of finding a job related to his majors, he chose to the one which he was really interested in. as a result, he started his animation career in Toei Douga (Toei Animation) as an in-between artist. His talent and hard-working has been recognized soon after he entered the animation industry, when he worked as an in-between artist on the Toei production Gulliver 's Travels Beyond the Moon in 1965. In the following years, he worked as various roles in the animation industry. In 1968, Miyazaki met Isao Takahata while working as chief animator, concept artist, and scene designer on the anime Hols: Prince of the Sun, whom became his valuable and intimate partner in his later career.
In 1979, Miyazaki was finally able to direct his first feature anime film, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro may not be as famous as Miyazaki’s later
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese film director, animator, manga artist, producer, and screenwriter. Through his animation career that has spanned over fifty years, Miyazaki has been loved and highly recognized by the public with his high quality works full of imagination. People enjoy his animated films not only because his films are distinct from those animation which portrait love and romantic, or violence and war, but also because of the hidden meaning in his films. While many people think he is the most admired and influential filmmaker working in animation today, he is also one of few animators which the public can identify by name. Nevertheless, the success of his animated films has earned him the international acclaim as the one of most successful makers of animated films. Miyazaki has even been compared with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park, as well as American director Robert Zemeckis (Morrison).
Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. In 1963, he graduated from Gakushuin University with degrees in Political Science and Economics. Instead of finding a job related to his majors, he chose to the one which he was really interested in. as a result, he started his animation career in Toei Douga (Toei Animation) as an in-between artist. His talent and hard-working has been recognized soon after he entered the animation industry, when he worked as an in-between artist on the Toei production Gulliver 's Travels Beyond the Moon in 1965. In the following years, he worked as various roles in the animation industry. In 1968, Miyazaki met Isao Takahata while working as chief animator, concept artist, and scene designer on the anime Hols: Prince of the Sun, whom became his valuable and intimate partner in his later career.
In 1979, Miyazaki was finally able to direct his first feature anime film, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro may not be as famous as Miyazaki’s later
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