WHO IS WHO

宮﨑 駿
 Japanese
 Film director
 Film Producer
 Screenwriter
 Animator
 Author
 Manga artist
 A co-founder of Studio Ghibli
 he has attained international acclaim as
a masterful storyteller and as a maker of
anime feature films, and is widely
regarded as one of the greatest
animation directors.
CAREER
In 1963, Miyazaki was employed at Toei Animationrked on Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
(1964).

Miyazaki worked as chief animator, concept artist, and scene designer on The Great Adventure of
Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968).

Throughout the film's production, Miyazaki worked closely with his mentor, Yasuo Ōtsuka, whose
approach to animation profoundly influenced Miyazaki's work.

Miyazaki left Toei Animation in August 1971, and was hired at A-Pro. After moving from A-Pro to
Zuiyō Eizō in June 1973, Miyazaki and Takahata worked on World Masterpiece Theater, which featured
their animation series Heidi, Girl of the Alps, an adaptation of Johanna Spyri's Heidi.

In June 1985, Miyazaki, Takahata, Tokuma and Suzuki founded the animation production
company Studio Ghibli, with funding from Tokuma Shoten.
 Upon its premiere on July 12, 1997, Princess Mononoke was critically acclaimed,
becoming the first animated film to win the Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year. In
September 2001, Studio Ghibli announced the production of Howl's Moving Castle, based
on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones. The film received the Osella Award for Technical
Excellence at the 61st Venice International Film Festival,[and was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Spiriting Away(2001) Miyazaki wrote the script after he decided the film would be based
on the 10-year-old daughter of his friend, associate producer Seiji Okuda, who came to visit
his house each summer.The film overtook Titanic (at the time the top-grossing film worldwide)
in the Japanese box office to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history . Spirited
Away received universal acclaim, and is frequently ranked among the greatest animated
films of all timeIt won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy
Awards, making it the first (and so far only) hand drawn and non-English language
animated film to win such award; the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film
Festival, tied with Bloody Sunday; and is in the top 10 on the British Film Institute's list of "Top
50 films for children up to the age of 14"
 Little girl / Teenager
 Adventure vs Grow up
 Solve the problems by main character own self
 HOW CAN HE INFLUENCE MY WORK

I watched his animations since I was a little girl. His animations influence me a lot
in my childhood. Because most main characters in his film are girls, they all solve the
conflict by themselves, which let me knew girls also can solve the hardest problem
without prince. So I also want make the animations like his. Which have brave
teenagers figure out bad situation by themselves. I like fairytales very much, and
Miyazaki’s animation always happened with magic and nature that can teach me
how to contact the animation with stories in a best way.