Why I admire Hayao Miyazaki
He made my childhood amazing.
Hayao Miyazaki, born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, is a director of Japanese animated films. He is a co-founder of Studio Ghibli.
Miyazaki is the creator of many popular anime feature films, as well as manga. Although largely unknown in the West outside of animation circles until Miramax released his film Princess Mononoke in 1999, his films have enjoyed commercial and critical success in Japan and East Asia. Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan; Princess Mononoke held the same title for a short period until the release of Titanic later in the same year.
Miyazaki’s films are distinguished by recurring themes such as humanity’s relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. The protagonists of his movies are often strong, independent girls or young women; the “villains” are often ambiguous characters with redeeming qualities.
Miyazaki’s films have generally been financial successes. His success has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney. However, Miyazaki does not see himself as a person building an animation empire, but as an animator lucky enough to have been allowed to make films with his own personal touch.
What beautiful, powerful films! He has an imagination like no other, and creates such beautiful art filled with both sadness and shining hope. Princess Mononoke changed my life forever, and taught me so much about humans, nature, and human nature. aI thank him for it.
I like watching his cartoon!
And when I heard the music of the cartoon,I was moved by it.
Of his magical story telling abilities at the both written and visual level. Last I saw Kiki.
His movies, espesially the “Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi” have made me more interested in general Japanese culture, although I had known some japanese people before.
if there’s one person i want to meet, it’s hayao miyazaki. i love every little detail he things he put in his work, the sweetness, the cynical insight that’s briliantly hidden in his movies, the bitterness, the innocense, the love for nature, the beautiful character.
i would like to sit together with him and just talk about everything(and when i said everything, i mean EVERYTHING! Whatever it is. I don’t even care) he’s a wonderful story teller, aside from his miraculous ability to be a dream-maker, there’s a bitter-pessimist-cynical-side of him that i just adore, and love.
he’s one of the great man alive.
i love him.
I would just really like to shake his hand and tell him how much the Nausicaa graphic novels mean to me. Every frame is amazing to me.
i have seen every movie from Miyazaki.
He can tell a tale like no other. THe stories always have strong heroines, imagination and great values on life and the environment. Visually stunning everytime
beautiful animation, coupled with touching stories with strong ecological and spiritual morals
Hi.I love Hayao Miyazaki i have three of his movies.THe names are 1.Howl’s moving castle and 2.Miyazaki’s spirited 3.my neighbor totoro.away.They are good.