Hayao Miyazaki
10 titles · japanese contemporary
Flight, work and moral seriousness for children. Miyazaki draws worlds that keep running whether or not the plot needs them to, gives young girls agency without a lesson attached, and refuses to supply a villain when a conflict of interests will do.
Signature
- Hand-drawn animation dense with incidental motion — weather, food, machinery.
- Protagonists who work, and whose competence is the point.
- Antagonists with legitimate positions; reconciliation over defeat.
- Ecological damage treated as consequence rather than as message.
Howl's Moving Castle
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro
Ponyo
Castle in the Sky
Kiki's Delivery Service
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Porco Rosso
The Wind Rises
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