The Legendary Hayao Miyazaki aka 宮崎 駿

I came across Ponyo cute box set at Artist Gallery the other day while shopping for my Adele's 21 album and was looking forward to get The Secret World Of Arriety but it was sold out. The title of this anime may seem familiar to you guys as it's one of the productions of the world famous legendary animator, Hayao Miyazaki aka 宮崎 駿.


Hayao Miyazaki aka 宮崎 駿 is a  prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Along with Isao Takata, they co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company who produced many famous anime films, such as Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo, Princes Mononoke, The Secret World Of Arriety. Miyazaki was listed as 1 of world's most influential people by Times magazine.


Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes like humanity's relationship with nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women. While two of his films, The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films like Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities.


His wonderful productions as listed below (just in case you guys want to collect all the tittles mentioned below, which I plan to do so :p):-

Castle in the Sky 

 

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

My Neighbour Totoro

Kiki's Delivery Service

Porco Rosso                           

Princess Mononoke

Spirited Away (Winner of Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, 2002)

Howl's Moving Castlle (Nominee for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, 2005)

Ponyo

The Secret World of Arrietty