![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Animator, Editor Born: January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan Biography:"Hayao Miyazaki" is regarded as one of the greatest creators of animated films, and his work certainly stands as some of the best the genre has to offer. Miyazaki began as a low-level animator for children's cartoons such as Gulliver's Space Travels, eventually becoming director and key animator on many films and series, including Future Boy Conan and "The Castle of Cagliostro". He frequently collaborated with "Isao Takahata", director of "Grave of the Fireflies". Miyazaki and Takahata co-founded Ghibli Films, a name that would become synonymous with quality. Miyazaki's works with Ghibli contained more of his own personal vision. Beginning with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, his films took on a softer touch and often included the adventures of young girls. Nausicaa, and others including "Kiki's Delivery Service", The Crimson Pig, and "My Neighbor Totoro", contain elements of fantasy and often... Full Biography
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