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Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (1941-)
January 5, 1941 (83 years old)

The Boy and the Heron

V.O.: Kimi-tachi wa dō ikiru ka
Jap. 2023. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. A teenage boy enters a magical world with a talking grey heron after finding an abandoned tower in his new town.
Runtime: 124 min.

The Wind Rises

V.O.: Kaze tachinu
Jap. 2013. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. With poor eyesight preventing him from being an airplane pilot, a young man successfully turns to aeronautical engineering.
Runtime: 126 min.
Parental Guidance

From Up On Poppy Hill

V.O.: Kokuriko-zaka kara
Jap. 2011. Animation by Goro Miyazaki. While her mother is studying in the United States, a young girl whose father disappeared at sea meets a student journalist who is linked to her by a strange secret.
Runtime: 91 min.

The Secret World of Arrietty

V.O.: Kari-gurashi no Arietti
Jap. 2010. Animation by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. At rest in his aunt's house, a kid waiting for heart surgery discovers a family of tiny beings under the floor.
Runtime: 94 min.
General

Ponyo

V.O.: Gake no ue no Ponyo
Jap. 2008. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. A sea creature who has become a little girl falls in love with the little boy who took her in, which provokes the ire of her father, a magician who reigns in the depths.
Runtime: 101 min.

Howl's Moving Castle

V.O.: Hauru no Ugoku Shiro
Jap. 2004. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. In a country at war, a young hatter, transformed into a 90-year-old woman by a witch, takes refuge in the travelling castle of a magician.
Runtime: 119 min.

Spirited Away

V.O.: Sen to Chihiro No Kamikakushi
Jap. 2001. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. A little girl who has ventured into a strange spa where the gods come to purify themselves finds herself in the clutches of a witch.
Runtime: 130 min.

Princess Mononoke

V.O.: Mononoke Hime
Jap. 1997. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. Seeking a cure for an unknown evil, a young prince arrives in a magical forest where a war is raging between men and animals.
Runtime: 133 min.
14A

Porco Rosso

V.O.: Kurenai no buta
Jap. 1992. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki.
Runtime: 94 min.

Kiki's Delivery Service

V.O.: Majo no takkyûbin
Jap. 1989. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. As part of an initiation, a thirteen-year-old apprentice witch, flanked by her cat, becomes a delivery girl in a coastal town bakery.

My Neighbor Totoro

V.O.: Tonari no Totoro
Jap. 1988. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. Living in the country with their ailing mother, two little girls have many adventures with the wondrous spirits of the nearby forest.
Runtime: 86 min.

Castle in the Sky

V.O.: Tenku no shiro Rapyuta
Jap. 1986. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki. The fate of two children in possession of a magic crystal seems to be linked to the mystery surrounding a mythical city floating in the sky.
Runtime: 117 min.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

V.O.: Kaze no tani no Naushika
Jap. 1984. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki with Sumi Shimamoto, Ichiro Nagai, Goro Naya. A pacifist princess strives to prevent two enemy nations from tearing each other apart, threatening the survival of their planet.
Runtime: 117 min.

Lupin III, The Castle of Cagliostro

V.O.: Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro
Jap. 1979. Animation by Hayao Miyazaki.
Runtime: 100 min.

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