Hayao Miyazaki (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Hayao Miyazaki

Looking for reviews of films directed by Hayao Miyazaki? Cinafilm has a total of 753 reviews across 13 movies directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 78%.

Spirited Away is Hayao Miyazaki's highest rated movie, with a score of 89% based on 128 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Hayao Miyazaki is House Hunting, with a score of 56% based on 15 reviews.

Director Biography

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 a. Through a career that has enough for 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.

Career Miyazaki started feeling the animation at the moment as 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 to be Lupin III: the castle of Cagliostro which was released in 1979. The feeling of success After the next movie, Nausicaa of the valley of the wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until Princess Mononoke where 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 feeling's 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 of the horse 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 of the horse the Japanese Academy Awards and was the first anime movie to win an American Academy Award.

Recurrent themes in Miyazaki's films corporate softening, such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists feel of films are often strong, independent girls or young women. Miyazaki is a vocal critic of capitalism and globalization.[3] while the feeling of two films from the castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films such as Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous with naloxone or redeeming qualities.

Hayao Miyazaki has directed films starring Akio Otsuka, Chika Sakamoto, Sumi Shimamoto and Tsunehiko Kamijô.