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Early years
Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo in 1941. The family originally lived in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, but later moved to Utsunomiya City and Kashinuma City as a result of wartime evacuation during World War II. His family operated an airplane factory, which was a military industry, so they were able to maintain a rather subsistence lifestyle during the material deprivation of the latter part of the war. But growing up in this environment, Miyazaki unexpectedly became skeptical of his family's privileges.
In his early childhood, Miyazaki loved to read books and manga. During his middle school years, he intended to become a manga artist, and in turn began actively practicing manga. In his third year of high school, he met his first romantic interest: the White Lady inside Toei Animation's "The Legend of the White Snake," Japan's first full-length color film.
After that, Miyazaki entered the political economy department of Gakushuin University. There was no manga club inside the university, so he entered the Children's Literature Research Society, which was the closest, and legend has it that Miyazaki was the only member of the society. During this period, he created a large number of manga, and also submitted them to Lender Manga Publishing House, but it seems that there were no finished works. Miyazaki was a bystander in the security movement that was raging at the time, and only participated as a non-partisan at the last minute.
That's when Miyazaki made his life-changing employment decision: to go to Toei Animation.
Because Miyazaki was the second son, with the eldest son inheriting the family business, he could choose his own career as he liked. The reason for giving up manga and choosing animation was, according to himself, because he was told that his work was an imitation of Tezuka, in a situation where he didn't think so himself. He realized that he could not surpass a manga artist like Tezuka, and chose animation, which did not matter even if it was not original. The time was 1963.
Toei Animation was founded when Toei Film absorbed Nichido Pictures Co. Before Osamu Tezuka's Bugpro was founded in 1961, it was virtually the only company producing animation in Japan, with a strong humanistic flavor and a long tradition. Bug Pro opened its influence with inexpensive television animation, while at the time, high-cost, fine-grained, tradition-rich animated films were still the domain of Toei. When Miyazaki entered Toei, he was only the lowest level of the original art staff. At the time, there was a leftist trend in the post-war literary world (don't forget that the security movement had just ended), and the company was full of democracy, so many things about the work were discussed and decided by everyone. The hard-working, highly educated Miyazaki thus rose to prominence in the discussions, and in 1964 the company began unionizing, with Yasuo Otsuka at the helm, Hajime Takahata as vice-chairman, and Hayao Miyazaki as secretary.
Yasuo Otsuka, a veteran of the organization, discovered the talent of Hidetoshi Takahata and others who graduated from the University of Tokyo, and in 1965, this group of people in the labor union began to work together to produce The Great Adventure of Hors, Prince of the Sun, with Otsuka as the supervisor of the artwork, and Hidetoshi Takahata, a newcomer at that time, was promoted to be the supervisor by him. Because Miyazaki played such a large role in the work, a position was invented for him: scene designer. The literary talent of Takahata brought a new concept to the work, adding more depth and richness to it, making it arguably Japan's first full-length color animation made not just for children. It is also worth mentioning that the production of this anime was interrupted in October 1966, continued in January 1967, and officially screened in July 1968, due to the disruption of the work by the activities of the labor unions and the employers in negotiating the treatment and labor conditions. During this period, Miyazaki married his colleague Jumi Ota in 1965, and his eldest son was born in 1967. Due to the producers' dedication to excellence, the production was continually extended and given additional budgets. However, although it was later highly acclaimed, it did not break even in terms of box office receipts at the time. After completing the work, Yasuo Otsuka, who had been in trouble with the labor union and had run up a deficit, left Toei Animation to join A-Pro.
Miyazaki continued to work at Toei Animation as an animator, following in the footsteps of his predecessors Takahata and Yamaichi Odabe, and in 1969, he began to serialize a short manga, "Desert Folks," in a newspaper under the pseudonym Mitsuru Akitsu. This may have been a bit of a prototype for what would become Valley of the Wind.
In 1971, the trio jumped from Toei Animation to A-Pro, where Yasuo Otsuka worked, and that's when Kifumi Kondo, who went on to direct Sideways, and work as an art supervisor on a number of Ghibli productions, met him, a group that had a horrible 20- to 30-year history of collaborating with each other. As one of the main creators of the new project Pippi Longstocking, Miyazaki traveled abroad for the first time to Scotland. However, due to the original author, this project was finally abandoned. Originally, Miyazaki loved the scenery of European villages and towns, and the impression he got from this experience appeared in many of his later works.
Next, they worked together on the TV version of Lupin III, which was produced by Yasuo Otsuka. Lupin III has been getting TV specials and theatrical releases almost every year until now, and Takahata and Miyazaki's unauthorized adaptations of the original have had a profound effect on Lupin's transformation from a mansion thief to the familiar civilian figure he is today.
Since then, the combination of performer Takahata Hoshi, art supervisor Odabe Yoichi plus Miyazaki has produced a number of works, most notably "The Panda Family". The work was the first to focus on depicting everyday life, and was the first attempt at a new style for Takahata's later work. In the midst of panda fever, the reviews for this adventure poured in very favorably.
In 1974, the trio moved together to Zuiyou Pictures, the parent company of Nippon Animation, later known for its "World Masterpiece Theater" series. The trio's first anime, "Maiden of the Alps," can be said to have established the style of the entire series, with Takahata's directorial style of depicting everyday life and emphasizing the timing of the action taking shape. This new style of animation was a great success. This time, Miyazaki's position was Layout and Screen Composition, another new position invented to match the new style of animation. For Takahata, who couldn't draw, Miyazaki was his hands and feet, turning his ideas into screen compositions.
The three of them also supervised the world's most famous theater series, "3,000 Miles to My Mother" (1976) and "Anne the Redhead" (1979). Later, Miyazaki Hayao, who had been practicing for a long time and had a lot of experience in leading TV single episodes, got his first supervisory position in 1977, which was "Future Teen Conan" (1978). Compared to the more respectful and subdued Takahata, Miyazaki is characterized by a rich imagination and expressive approach to action. The original, which was originally pessimistic, was transformed by Miyazaki into a bright story about a teenage girl. This story can be seen in later stories such as "Castle in the Sky".
In 1979, it was transferred to Movie Shinsha in Tokyo in order to produce the theatrical animation "Lupin III The City of Cagliostro", and the production supervisor was Yasuo Otsuka, who was the original creative member of the Lupin animation series. If you're a fan of Ghibli's work, be sure to check out this one, which has the same quality and charm as the later Ghibli works, and is still a legendary classic. However, it was a hit or miss at the time. After that, Miyazaki worked for TELECOM, a newcomer development company of Tokyo Movie Shinsa, and continued to produce the new Lupin TV series. Here, Miyazaki came up with the project that would become the predecessor of the later Totoro, Princess of Ghosts. But, of course, it wasn't adopted.
Turn of life
In 1981, another turn in Miyazaki's life occurred. Toshio Suzuki, the editor-in-chief of Animage, a newly launched animation magazine by Tokuma Shoten, wanted to produce an interview album of animation personnel, and it was presumably intended to interview Takahata Hoshi, who had become famous due to the "World Masterpiece Series," but it turned out to be rejected by Takahata and Miyazaki. In the end, somehow it turned out to be an interview album with Hayao Miyazaki, who has very little seniority and no fame at all. This seemingly haphazard move arguably pulled in a golden-egg-laying hen for Tokuma Shoten.
Animage also discovered and financed other young and talented animation supervisors such as Mamoru Oshii in an effort to make a name for them, but the collaboration just didn't work out as well as Miyazaki's.
With Toshio Suzuki and Tokuma Shoten taking the lead, Miyazaki began to create his own animation. The project for the theatrical anime "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" was initially knocked back due to the lack of original artwork, so in 1982 Miyazaki serialized his manga in "Animage". The dense drawings, deep and multiple reflections made this manga epic, which has been serialized intermittently, a considerable achievement. After Miyazaki completed his work on Sherlock Holmes, he left Movie Shinsa in Tokyo to prepare for his new work.
In 1983, the saga began. The people who had worked together since the days of Prince of the Sun assembled once again, and production began on the animation of "Kaze no Kani". Miyazaki alone supervised, scripted, and did all the work on the score sheet. Having worked from the bottom to the top, Miyazaki had the ability to dominate most of the animation work, from the story to the artwork. The movie turned out to have a religious ending, which the makers found less than satisfying, but was unexpectedly very moving when it was shown. Against the backdrop of that success, Studio Ghibli was founded in 1985, taking its name from an Italian reconnaissance plane from World War II (a family hobby), which means "hot winds of the Sahara Desert". Miyazaki oversaw the creation of the picture book Shuna no Journey.
With the start of the new anime Castle in the Sky, the manga Valley of the Wind went on hiatus. After that, Valley of the Wind also remained on hiatus and reopened off and on with the production of the Ghibli anime until 1994. Castle in the Sky also remained a solo show for Supervisor Miyazaki. Supervisor Miyazaki's style of a fantasy world rich in action and dramatic tension and full of real touch and detail is fully utilized.
("City in the Sky" is set in the industrial revolution of the 19th world Europe, lovely and innocent little girl Sheeta (sheeta) in the good and brave little boy Paso (pazu) accompanied by the search for their own lost hometown, in the journey to the end of the city of the sky, and finally realized that regardless of the advancement of science and technology and the development of mankind, people are not able to leave the land. (The theme of man and nature is further embodied here, and the final destruction of the great city of Laputa floating in the sky seems to be warning the world that in the century of machinery and steel, what one is facing is in fact an undefined future.)
Supervisor Takahata's play came next, when Miyazaki's "Totoro" and Takahata's "Grave of the Fireflies" were shown simultaneously in 1988. Though the latter was widely praised by the literary community and touched countless viewers, it was the former that was one of Ghibli's most consistently popular works. And Ghibli has since developed a system where two supervisors take turns producing animated films.
In 1989, "The Witch's House" was released. For the first time, Miyazaki took on the theme of a young girl growing up. After completing the Kaze-no-Tani anime, he read Chizuru Takahashi's "On the Ramp of Concrete" in his boredom while spending the summer at his father-in-law's cabin in the mountains, and the experience of reading it with the little girls in his late teens made him professionally think of adapting a girl's manga into an anime. Miyazaki was a feminist, and the idea of a movie featuring a contemporary girl was born. This movie and Chihiro were the result of that encounter.
In 1992, "Red Pig" was released. Miyazaki, who loved the beauty of weapons but hated war, published a number of short comics in model weapons magazines, and this was one of them.
After that, Studio Ghibli began to train newcomers in view of their advanced age. 1993 saw the production of the TV Special "Sound of the Sea Tide" under the direction of guest supervisor Tomotsuharu Ogizuki, arguably Studio Ghibli's most colorful work, and 1994 saw the production of "Heisei Ravens Battle," under the supervision of Takahata. 1995 saw "Sideways Listening" under the direction of Kono, who had known him since the A-Pro days. Although 1995's Sideways Listening was supervised by Kifumi Kondo, whom I've known since the days of A-Pro, it was still Miyazaki who did the script and the screenplay.
The 1994 manga "Valley of the Wind", which ran for ten years, also finally ended. I have to admit that the success of the 1994 anime of the same name had a lot to do with the environmental ideology of the time. And this work in the serialization witnessed Miyazaki supervisor's ideas continue to change and reflect. Ideas since the anime have been overturned and denied, and those who think that Miyazaki's ideas are simply environmental should read this work carefully.
(In 1995, "On Your Mark", which is considered to be GHIBLI's experimental theater, was screened at "SuperBest3" as a short work made from the songs of Chuck and Birdie. It tells the story of two young men who send a winged girl into the blue sky in a world contaminated by radioactive energy. But what Miyazaki wanted to show was not "salvation" but "his own hope," and that's what touches the heart the most.)
After a hiatus, Miyazaki began work on the concluding "The Phantom Princess. Of Studio Ghibli's productions, Supervisor Miyazaki's more lively and lucid and fantastically colored works are generally more popular with audiences. And his works tend to be within the top three domestic movies at the box office that year. This production made Japanese movie history at the box office due to the grandeur of the scenes, the beautiful production, the call for Miyazaki's comeback after several years of retirement, and more importantly, the unprecedented advertising campaign! Japanese movies have always been led at the box office by foreign films, and this success can be said to be of immense significance.
"Ghost Princess" responds to and summarizes the change in Supervisor Miyazaki's thinking since "Valley of the Wind," and it was supposed to be a perfect conclusion to Supervisor Miyazaki's career, but two events disrupted the plan. The first was the overworked death of Supervisor Kifumi Kondo, who was being groomed as his successor, and the second was Supervisor Takahata's My Neighbors The Yamadas box office failure. It would have been quite a box office hit, but that was a result of the success of the Ghost Princess publicity strategy, which ate up a large advertising budget. Combined with the film's innovative computer animation methods and lean production, it totaled up to a loss of billions of yen instead.
Unable to do anything about it, Takahata's supervisor retired in disgrace, and Miyazaki Hayao, the box office guarantor, had to come out of the woodwork again. Since Ghost Princess was once again surpassed at the box office by Titanic (the movie), the slogan this time around was to be number one again.
In 2001, "A Thousand and One" was released. It lived up to the hype and again took the No. 1 spot at the box office, becoming a box office monster in Japanese history with more than 30 billion yen. It is important to realize that the annual economic total of Japanese animation is only 500 billion yen, and the general annual box office top works tend to be less than about 3 billion. Strong publicity campaign, and even used to the Prime Minister to support the premiere. Not only that, Miyazaki Hayao's success is even beginning to get international recognition, works get Oscar, Venice, Berlin and other international film awards.
("A Thousand and One" recounts a small slice of Chihiro's life, telling how she gradually unleashes her potential and overcomes adversity when faced with difficulties. This is exactly what Miyazaki wants the audience to understand. Miyazaki himself considers this to be a film that is different from his other previous stories. In the past, he has written protagonists that he loves, but this time Miyazaki deliberately portrays Chihiro as an ordinary character, an unassuming, typical ten year old Japanese girl, with the intention of making every ten year old girl see herself in Chihiro. She is not a pretty girl, nor is she particularly attractive, and her timid personality and listless demeanor are even more annoying. (When he first created the character, Miyazaki was a little worried about her, but by the time the story was nearly finished, he was convinced that Chihiro would become a likable character.)
The underwhelming box-office success of "Cat's Retribution," which the rookie took over the year before, forced Miyazaki's supervisor to move on, and estimates for 2004's "Howl's Moving Castle" should be close to "The Phantom Princess" at the box-office, and not quite up to the level of Chihiro. In terms of the quality and intensity of the finished work, neither movie is as good as Princess Ghost's previous efforts. But if not from an anime fan's point of view, but from the general public's point of view, after Ghost Princess was the beginning of Miyazaki's supervisory efforts to gain real success and recognition from the traditional world, I guess.
Another major event concerning Supervisor Miyazaki was the completion of the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. Compared to international film awards like the Oscars, I wonder if this is some form of Overseer Miyazaki's summation of his animation career?
The most recent (2004 -- editor's note) news is that Studio Ghibli has become independent from its parent company Tokuma Shoten, as the latter has turned around its chronic losses. By association, will Supervisor Miyazaki, who is the cash cow, still have to continue to supervise Studio Ghibli, now that it is in such a staggeringly large financial scale? You should know that Miyazaki supervisor is involved in the creation of post-war Japan's first generation of animation animation people, animation experience 40 years, the energy is not as big as before.
(In the program "NNN News" broadcasted by Toho in Japan on the 19th, it was announced that Master Miyazaki will release his new movie "Goldfish Hime on the Cliff" (崖の上のポニョ), which will be shown in the summer of 2008. This is Mr. Miyazaki's latest masterpiece, four years after "Howl's Moving Castle," which attracted 15 million viewers in 2004. (It's now in theaters and receiving rave reviews.) /p>
5-Maiden of the Alps (1974)TV
6-Three Thousand Miles in Search of My Mother (1976)TV
7-Future Teenage Conan (1978)TV
8-Redheaded Maiden Anne (1979)TV
9-Lupin III- -CITY OF CALIOSTERO (1979)TV
GHIBLI PERIOD WORKS (1985- )
1-CITY IN THE SKY (SKY CITY RAPPITA) (1986)TV
2-TORONTO (となりのトトロ)（1988)TV
2-TORONTO (TORONTO) ( 1988)
Title Totoro
Original Name: Tonari no Totoro
English Translation: My Neighbor Totoro
Year: 1988
Country: Japan
Length: 86 Min
Production: Tokuma Shoten
Original Title: Hayao Miyazaki
Soundtrack: Jean Hisaishi
Soundtrack: Jean Hisaishi
Soundtrack: Jean Hisaishi
Performance: Jean Hisaishi
Sound by Jean HisaishiPainting Supervision by Yoshiharu Sato
Art by Kazuo Oka
Color Design by Michishige Hoda
3-Magical Girl's Home (Magical Girl's Home) (1989) Theatre
4-Red Dolphin (Red Dolphin) (1992) Theatre
5-On your Mark (On Your Mark) (1995) short film
6- Ghost Princess (ものけ姫) (1997) theater
Original name: ものけ姬 (Mononoke Hime)
Chinese name: Ghost Princess
English name: Princess Mononoke
Production: Tokusetsu Shokubetsu Japan TV Dentsu Ghibli
Production Director: Tokuma Kangkei
Original work / script / supervision: Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by: Suzuki Toshio
Music: Hisaishi Jean
Voice: Yuriko Ishida, Matsuda Yoji, Tanaka Yuuko, Meilan Minghong
Theme song: Mira Miyazaki (sung by)
Drawing Supervision: Masashi Ando, Kitaro Takasaka, Kifumi Kondo
7-Sen and Chihiro (千與千寻の神隠し)(2001)theater
Original title: Sen and Chihiro no Kagakushi (Spirited Away)
Additional translations: Sen and Chihiro's Kagakushi (The Spirited Away), Kagakushi Maiden (The Spirited Maiden)
Original title: Hayao Miyazaki
Subtitle: Ogino Chihiro (荻野千隠) >Voice: Chihiro Ogino - - Durumi Shuusei
Mr. White - - Freedom Irisuya
Chihiro's mother - - Yasuko Sawaguchi
Chihiro's father - - Tsuyoshi Naito
The Soup Granny - - Mari Natsumaki
Grandpa Boiler - - Bunta Sugawara
The Frog - I, Shugenin Tatsuya
Suzu - ----- Tamai Yumi
Places ------ Kamioki Takanosuke, etc.
Music: Jean Hisaishi
Production: Ghibli
Length: 125 mins
Theme Song: Together Forever
8-Hal's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城) (2004)劇场
Original title: ハウル ハウルの動く城
英文片名：Howl's Moving Castle
Country/Region：Japan
Region：Asia
Production：Toho Pictures
Genre：Animation Fantasy
Director：Hayao Miyazaki
Starring：Chieko Beshore Kimura Takuya Miron Akihiro
Rating: U.S. PG
Length: 120 minutes
Release Date: November 20, 2004
9-Goldfish Hime on the Cliff (崖の上のポニョ) (2008) Theatrical
Original Title: Cliff on the Cliff (崖の上のポニョ)
Original Title: Cliff on the Cliff (崖の上のポニョ) (2008) English Title:
Country/Region:日本
Region: Asia
Genre: Animation
Director, Original Score, Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki
Music: Jean Hisaishi
Starring: Yuriai Nara, Yohki Doi, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Production: Studio Ghibli
Length: 102 mins
Released: July 19th, 2008< /p>
The works of Hayao Miyazaki within the scope of the usual reviews include the following 2 in addition to the 9 works of the GHIBLI period:
- Valley of the Wind (风の谷のナウシカ), a full-length manga, serialized from 1982 to 1994. The work is set in a hypothetical future era where mankind is on the decline, with the protagonist Nausicaa's various quests during the war as clues, and covers a wide range of issues such as man and nature, ideal society, and the value and significance of life, embodying the author's serious thoughts on the destiny of mankind.
The theatrical animation of the same name, "Kaze no Gu no Nausicaa" (1984), was adapted from the manga version, and the thematic characters and plots are superficial and simple compared to the original. General comments refer to the former.
-Side Ear (耳をすませば)(1995)theater(AKA Dream Street Girls), supervised by Kifumi Kondo, with scripts, subplots, and other production by Hayao Miyazaki.
Non-miyazaki director of GHIBLI other works (some rumors always put these works into the miyazaki works to go):
-fireflies of the tomb (fire dropping the tomb) (1988) theater Takahata Isao
-age of the fairy tale (おもひでぽろぽろ) (1991) theater Takahata Isao
-heard the sound of the waves (the sea ga ki koえる) (1993) theater (also known as dream street girl), Kifumi Kondo as supervisor, Miyazaki as the script, the screenplay and other productions. Hai ga kikoe) (1993) Theater Tomotsuharu Kizuki
-Heisei Kawasaki (Heisei Kawasaki ぽんぽこ) (1994) Theater Isao Takahata
My Neighbor Yamada-kun (ホーホケキョとなりの山田くん) (1999) Theater Isao Takahata
Cat's Return (猫の恩返し) (2002) Theater Hiroyuki Morita
- Night of Taniyamahara (种山原夜) (种山原夜) (种山原夜)（种山原夜), a film about the night of a cat's return to the sea (种山原夜). Tanegahara Night (种山ヶ原の夜)(2005)劇場 Ouka Kazuo
- Jikai Legend (ゲド戦記)(2006)劇場 Goro Miyazaki (Hayao Miyazaki's son)
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