Miyazaki Hayao

宮崎駿 (Wikipedia) is a master animator and director who co-founded Studio Ghibli. A strident and versatile genius, he has an irrational, manic streak, going in for psychoanalysis and acupuncture.

Work

The following works of Miyazaki Hayao are reviewed on this site.

In-between artist: Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon (1965)
Scene designer, animator: The Adventures of Hols, Prince of the Sun (1968)
Animator: Flying Phantom Ship (1969)
Key animator: Puss in Boots (1969)
Key animator: “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” (1971)
Key animator: Animal Treasure Island (1971)
Director: Lupin III (1971)
Writer: “Panda! Go Panda!” (1972)
Scene designer, layout artist: Heidi: A Girl of the Alps (1974)
Scene designer, layout artist: 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1976)
Director: Conan, the Boy in Future (1978)
Scene designer, layout artist: Anne of Green Gables (1979)
Writer: “From Idea to Film” (1979)
Director: Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Writer: “Nostalgia for a Lost World” (1979)
Writer: “A Proposal to Acquire Film Rights” (1980)
Director: “Albatross: Wings of Death” (1980 episode)
Director: “Aloha, Lupin” (1980 episode)
Writer: “Lupin Was Truly a Creature of His Era” (1980)
Writer-artist: “Princess Mononoke: The First Story” (1980)
Writer: “Thoughts on Fleischer” (1980)
Writer: “My Scrapbook” (1981)
Writer: “Thoughts on Fantastic Planet” (1981)
Writer: “A Woman Finish Inspector” (1982)
Writer: “A ‘Slanderous’ Portrait” (1982)
Writer: “My Point of Origin” (1982)
Writer-artist: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982)
Writer: “On Nausicaä” (1982)
Writer: “On Animation and Cartoon Movies” (1982)
Writer: “Panda in Process” (1982/1994)
Writer: “A Film That Can Be Enjoyed by People Who Have Never Read the Original Story” (1983)
Writer: “Having Seen Machi and Purezento” (1983)
Interviewee: “Speaking of Conan” (1983)
Writer-artist: The Journey of Shuna (1983)
Interviewee: “Hayao Miyazaki on His Own Works” (1984)
Writer-director: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Writer: “Original Proposal for Castle in the Sky” (1984)
Director: Sherlock Hound (1984)
Writer: “About Period Dramas” (1985)
Writer-artist: “The Citroen 2CV Is the Descendant of French Aircraft of the 1930s” (1985)
Writer: “Using a Bucket to Pour Water on a Flood” (1985)
Writer-director: Castle in the Sky (1986)
Writer-artist: “I Want a Garden Like This” (1986)
Interviewee: “Personally, I Think There Is a Continuity from Nausicaä” (1986)
Writer: “Project Plan for My Neighbor Totoro” (1986)
Writer: “My Neighbor Totoro — Directorial Memo: Characters” (1987)
Writer: “A Greeting of Solidarity — Afterword” (1987)
Writer: “On the Periphery of the Work” (1987)
Writer: “Kiki — The Spirit and the Hopes of Contemporary Girls” (1988)
Interviewee: “Totoro Was Not Made as a Nostalgia Piece” (1988)
Writer: “Having Seen The Man Who Planted Trees” (1988)
Writer: “My Car” (1988)
Writer-director: My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Writer: “Thoughts on Japanese Animation” (1988)
Writer: “About Futaki-san” (1989)
Writer: “I Parted Ways with Osamu Tezuka When I Saw the ‘Hand of God’ in Him” (1989)
Interviewee: “I Wanted to Show the Various Faces of One Person in This Film” (1989)
Writer-director: Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Writer: “What the Scenario Means to Me” (1989)
Writer: “Descendant of a Giant Sloth” (1990)
Writer: “My Teacher and I” (1990)
Writer: “Searching for One’s Own Starting Point: A Proposal for Dai Tokyo Monogatari (A Story of Greater Tokyo)” (1990)
Writer: “Bokkō (A Battle of Wits; Mo gong, Chinese) Memo: As an Animated Film” (1991)
Writer: “A Nation That Merely Dithers Around” (1991)
Interviewee: “All I Want is to Maintain a Workplace to Create Good Movies” (1991)
Interviewee: “On the Need to Create an Easy-to-Use Studio” (1991)
Writer: “The Porco Rosso Memos: Directorial Memoranda” (1991)
Interviewee: “An Interview Just Prior to the Release of Porco Rosso” (1992)
Writer: “I Left Raising Our Children to My Wife” (1992)
Director: Nandarou (1992)
Writer: “Pithy Comments” (1992)
Writer-director: Porco Rosso (1992)
Writer-director: “Sky-Coloured Seed” (1992)
Writer: “Sometimes We Need Stories About the Old Days” (1992)
Writer: “The Sound of the Winds of These Times” (1992)
Writer: “The Tokyo I Love” (1992)
Writer: “The Type of Film I’d Like to Create” (1992)
Writer: “The Power of the Single Shot” (1993)
Writer: “Why Shōjo Manga Now?” (1993)
Writer: “Panda! Go Panda! Creator’s Message” (1994)
Writer-artist: “Dining in Midair” (1994)
Interviewee: “Earth’s Environment as Metaphor” (1994)
Writer: “My Theories on the Popularity of Manga” (1994)
Interviewee: “On Completing Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” (1994)
Writer: “On the Banks of the Sea of Decay” (1994)
Interviewee: “The Pictures Are Already Moving Inside My Head” (1994)
Writer: “Things That Live in a Tree” (1994)
Interviewee: “On Your Mark — I Purposely Distorted the Lyrics for This Film” (1995)
Writer: “Princess Mononoke Planning Memo” (1995)
Writer: “My Old Man’s Back” (1995)
Writer-director: “On Your Mark” (1995)
Writer: “The Battle Between Humans and Ferocious Gods — The Goal of This Film” (1995)
Writer: “The World of Anime and the Scenario” (1995)
Writer: “There Should Be Commercials Thanking Loyal Customers” (1995)
Writer: “What Takei Sanseidō Means to Me” (1995)
Writer: Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Writer: “‘My Random Thoughts Notebook Is My Hobby’” (1995)
Writer: “A Requiem for Ryōtarō Shiba-san” (1996)
Writer: “About Ryōtarō Shiba-san” (1996)
Writer: Starting Point: 1979–1996 (1996/2009)
Artist: The Art of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Watercolor Impressions (1996)
Interviewee: “What Is Important for Children” (1996)
Participant: “Princess Mononoke and the Attraction of Medieval Times: A Dialogue with Yoshihiko Amino” (1997)
Writer: “A Child’s Five Minutes Can Be Equivalent to a Grown-Up’s Year” (1997)
Interviewee: “On Japan’s Animation Culture” (1997)
Writer-director: Princess Mononoke (1997)
Interviewee: “The Elemental Power of the Forest Also Lives Within the Hearts of Human Beings” (1997)
Writer: “Those Who Live in the Natural World All Have the Same Values” (1997)
Interviewee: “You Cannot Depict the Wild Without Showing Its Brutality and Cruelty: A Dialogue with Tadao Satō” (1997)
Interviewee: “Animation Directing Class, Higashi Koganei Sonjuku II School Opening: Urging at Least One Seedling to Sprout” (1998)
Participant: “Animation and Animism: Thoughts on the Living ‘Forest’” (1998)
Interviewee: “Forty-four Questions on Princess Mononoke for Director Hayao Miyazaki” (1998)
Interviewee: “I Want to Fill the Space Between Myself and the Audience” (1998)
Writer: “Recalling the Days of My Youth” (1998)
Writer: “Sacrifices of the Sky” (1998)
Writer: “The Sky That Saint-Exupéry Flew Through” (1998)
Participant: “To Energize People, Towns and the Land” (1998)
Interviewee: “What Grown-ups Can Tell Children So That They Can Live in a Happy Time” (1998)
Cast: World: Journey of My Memory (1998)
Writer: “Chihiro, from a Mysterious Town — The Goal of this Film” (1999)
Interviewee: “Traditional Japanese Aestheticism in Princess Mononoke: An Interview by Roger Ebert” (1999)
Writer: “Notes for the Spirited Away Image Album” (2000)
Writer: “Words of Farewell” (2000)
Interviewee: “Room to Be Free: Speaking About Spirited Away at the Press Conference Held Upon Completion of the Film” (2001)
Writer-director: Spirited Away (2001)
Writer: “The Heart That Accepts a ‘Lonely Man’” (2001)
Interviewee: “‘Don’t Worry, You’ll Be All Right’: What I’d Like to Convey to Children” (2001)
Writer: “Children Have a Future That Transcends ‘Imagination’” (2002)
Participant: “It’s a Tough Era, But It May Be the Most Interesting of All: A Conversation with Tetsuya Chikushi” (2002)
Cast: Japanorama (2002)
Writer-director: “Mei and the Kitten Bus” (2002)
Writer: “Nothing Makes Me Happier Than Watching Children Enjoy Themselves” (2002)
Interviewee: “On the Film Dark Blue World: A Dialogue with Producer Toshio Suzuki” (2002)
Participant: “Once Again, a World Where People Believe Everything Is Alive: A Dialogue with Tetsuo Yamaori” (2002)
Writer: “So, Where Do We Go From Here?” (2002)
Writer: “The Lights of Zenshōen” (2002)
Writer: “This Is the Kind of Museum I Want to Make” (2002)
Writer: “We Should Each Start Doing What We Can” (2002)
Cast: Thank You, Mr. Lasseter (2003)
Writer-director: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Writer: “Proposal for an Original Animated Short Titled ‘Mon Mon the Water Spider,’ for the Saturn Theater in the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka” (2004)
Writer: “Proposal for ‘The Day I Bought a Star’” (2004)
Writer: “The Fujimi Highland Is Fascinating” (2002/2004)
Writer: “Two Pages Are Fine. Just Draw Them!” (2004)
Cast: Yasuo Otsuka’s Joy in Motion (2004)
Writer: “An Attempt at a Short Film: Remarks on Accepting the Japan Foundation Award for 2005” (2005)
Interviewee: “I’ve Always Wanted to Create a Film About Which I Could Say, ‘I’m Just Glad I Was Born, so I Could Make This’” (2005)
Writer: “Remark to the Staff of the Ghibli Museum at the Screening of ‘Mon Mon the Water Spider,’ ‘The Day I Bought a Star,’ and ‘House Hunting’” (2005)
Writer: “Robert Westall’s Blackham’s Wimpey: Proposal for a Book with a Supplementary Guide of Random Thoughts” (2005)
Participant: “The Question Is Whether You Really Find It Interesting or Not” (2005)
Writer: “What’s Important for the Spirit: Text of a Speech to Be Given on the Occasion of Receiving the Japan Foundation Award for 2005” (2005)
Interviewee: “A Man Who Lived Bravely, Confronting a Tough Reality” (2006)
Writer: “Feeling Responsible for the Future of Children and Not Wanting to Make Halfhearted Films” (2006)
Writer-director: “House-hunting” (2006)
Writer: “Memories of Lost Landscapes: On Genzaburō Yoshino’s Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiruka” (2006)
Writer: “On Ponyo” (2006)
Writer: “Welcome to the Ghibli Forest Short Film ‘Mon Mon the Water Spider’” (2006)
Participant: “Worlds of Insects, Trees and Humans: A Dialogue with Takeshi Yōrō” (2006)
Interviewee: “Snezhnaya Koroleva (The Snow Queen): A Film That Made Me Think Animation Was Worthy Work” (2007)
Writer: “From the Anthill: An Introduction” (2006/2007)
Writer: “House of Three Bears” (2007)
Writer: “Memo on Music for Joe Hisaishi” (2007)
Writer: “Words of Farewell” (2007)
Writer-director: Ponyo (2008)
Writer: The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
Writer: From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Cast: “Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo” (2012)
Cast: The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)
Writer-director: The Wind Rises (2013)
Writer-director: The Boy and the Heron (2023)

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Citroën 2CV i Kyoto
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Angel’s Egg (1985)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)