Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki was born on the 5th January 1941 and is a Japanese manga artist. He began his animation career in 1961 at Toei animation before he started his own venture.
Miyazaki is the founder of Studio Ghibli. This studio specilises in animation films which are directed and animated by him. By starting this venture it took him away from his family often working until 2 am and starting again 8 am, his son felt he needed to get to know him and did this by studying his work, he now works closely with his father. Hayao Miyazaki has a very distinctive art style and his films can often be recognised by their characters and stories. He has devoted himself to creating the most innocent and beautiful children films imaginable instead of showing the greed and ugliness of modern life. Often the themes if his films were related to humanities, nature and technology whilst remaining pacifist in principle. The women or girls are often given the lead rolls, showing strong characters against the villains who are portrayed in a traditional way, good examples of this are Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the sky which shows us how he would portray a typical villain, where they win in the beginning but they lose everythingat the end of the film or become good for example where they are bad at the beginning of the film but find themselves helping somebody and therefore become good, whereas films such as Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke show us two young women who defy all odds showing strong character and fighting skills that would normally probably be portrayed by a strong man.
Since he has become leading icon within Japanese art and culture he has a museum built in Greater Tokyo, the description in the Sunday Telegraph magazine describes it as:
"The building that houses the Ghibli Museum would be unusual anywhere, but in greater Tokyo, where architectural exuberance usually takes and angular, modernist form - black glass cubes, busy geometries of neon - it is particularly so. Outside, the museum resembles an oversized adobe house, with slightly melted edges; it's exterior walls are painted shades of pink, green and yellow. Inside, the museum looks like a child's fantasy of Old Europe submitted to a rigorous Arts and Crafts sensibility. The floors are dark wood; stained - glass windows cast candy coloured light on whitewashed walls; a spiral stairway climbs - inside what looks like a giant Victorian birdcage - to a rooftop garden of wild grasses, over which a robot soldier stands guard"
I really love Hayao Miyazaki's work because it's so pure and innocent. After reading a bit about him I find him a very grumpy man, because he wishes that Japan would be buried under water and wished that animators would go bankrupt also I found that he is a hardworking man and dedicated to his work because he'd come home at 2am and go back to work at 8am. His work takes you out of the real world and into a fantasy and makes you feel happy and some films inspire you and you become a stronger person. My favourite film is Kiki's Delivery Service because of the sense of freedom in it. Despite his ugly thoughts his work is amazing and beautiful.
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