Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki

Director & Actor (b. 1941)
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The ThumbScore for Hayao Miyazaki (89.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 13 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Hayao's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

13
Movies
89.6%
Avg ThumbScore
Animation
Top Genre

Frequent Collaborators

Sumi Shimamoto (4)Ichiro Nagai (3)Rumi Hiiragi (2)Tatsuya Gashûin (2)Ryunosuke Kamiki (2)

Hayao Miyazaki (Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly five decades, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park as well as Robert Zemeckis, who pioneered Motion Capture animation, and he has been named one of the most influential people by Time Magazine. Miyazaki began his career at Toei Animation as an in-between artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon where he pitched his own ideas that eventually became the movie's ending. He continued to work in various roles in the animation industry over the decade until he was able to direct his first feature film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro which was published in 1979.

After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until Princess Mononoke whereafter he temporarily retired. While Miyazaki's films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan, he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax released his 1997 film, Princess Mononoke. Princess Mononoke was the highest-grossing film in Japan—until it was eclipsed by another 1997 film, Titanic—and the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards. Miyazaki returned to animation with Spirited Away. The film topped Titanic's sales at the Japanese box office, also won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards and was the first anime film to win an American Academy Award.

Born 1941-01-05 in Tokyo, Japan.

On ThumbScore, Hayao Miyazaki appears in 13 films with an average audience score of 89.6%, most frequently in the Animation genre.

Sources: TMDB

Filmography & Ratings

Spirited Away
Spirited Away
2001
👍 95%
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke
1997
👍 93%
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kiki's Delivery Service
1989
👍 93%
Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle
2004
👍 92%
Castle in the Sky
Castle in the Sky
1986
👍 92%
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
1984
👍 92%
My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
👍 91%
Ponyo
Ponyo
2008
👍 90%
Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso
1992
👍 89%
The Wind Rises
The Wind Rises
2013
👍 89%
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron
2023
👍 88%
The Castle of Cagliostro
The Castle of Cagliostro
1979
👍 88%
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
2013
👍 70%
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