List of works by Hayao Miyazaki


is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as its honorary chairman. Over the course of his career, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation.
Born in Tokyo City, Miyazaki expressed interest in manga and animation from an early age. He joined Toei Animation in 1963, working as an inbetween artist and key animator on films like Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon, Puss in Boots, and Animal Treasure Island, before moving to A-Pro in 1971, where he co-directed Lupin the Third Part I alongside Isao Takahata. After moving to Zuiyō Eizō in 1973, Miyazaki worked as an animator on World Masterpiece Theater and directed the television series Future Boy Conan. He joined Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first feature film The Castle of Cagliostro and the television series Sherlock Hound. He wrote and illustrated the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and directed the 1984 film adaptation produced by Topcraft.
Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1985, writing and directing films such as Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Porco Rosso, which were met with critical and commercial success in Japan. Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke was the first animated film to win the Japan Academy Film Prize for Picture of the Year and briefly became the highest-grossing film in Japan; its Western distribution increased Ghibli's worldwide popularity and influence. Spirited Away became Japan's highest-grossing film and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature; it is frequently ranked among the greatest films of the 21st century. Miyazaki's later films—Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo, and The Wind Rises —also enjoyed critical and commercial success. He retired from feature films in 2013 but later returned to make The Boy and the Heron, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Filmography

Feature films

Executive producer only

Manga works

The following list contains Hayao Miyazaki's works, both major and minor, since his debut as manga artist:
WorkYearsSummary
Nagagutsu wo Haita Neko 1969Serialization in a newspaper of a feature film by Toei Doga, for which Miyazaki worked as a key animator. Based on Charles Perrault's book. Pero, the dandy cat, helps a boy defeat an Ogre and win the heart of a princess.
Sabaku no Tami 1969–70Written for a newspaper targeted for children. It deals with the devastation of war, betrayal, and the ugliness of the human nature under desperate situations.
Doubutsu Takarajima 1972Serialization in a newspaper of a feature film by Toei Doga, for which Miyazaki worked as a key animator. A slapstick adventure story based on Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Kaze no Tani no Naushika 1982–94Precursor and partial adaptation of the anime film of the same name, with a much more extended plot than the film.
Imouto he 1982A six-page graphic poem about a dream a boy has in which he and his sick twin sister fly and travel around the world, and he can bring happiness to her.
Shuna no Tabi 1983An all-watercolor 147 page graphic novel considered by some as a Nausicaä prototype. It's about a prince of a very poor country who journeys in search of the Golden Wheat to save his people from starving.
Miyazaki Hayao no Zassō Nōto 1984–92Series of manga which Miyazaki had very sporadically written in a Japanese monthly scale model magazine, Model Graphix. They are totally independent manga stories, mecha ideas, or movie ideas about tanks, planes, or battle ships from the era before World War II - the "favorites" of Miyazaki.
Hikōtei Jidai 1989A 15-page all watercolor manga, which the animated film Porco Rosso is based on. It was serialized in Model Graphix, as a part of Miyazaki's Zassō Nōto series.
Hansu no Kikan 1994An all-watercolor manga based on the fictional adventures of Hans, a German chief tank mechanic, at the end of World War II, serialized in Model Graphix.
Kuuchuu de Oshokuji 1994An all-watercolor short manga about the history of in-flight meals.
Doromamire no Tora 1998–99An all-watercolor manga based on the memoirs of Otto Carius, a German tank commander. It was serialized in Model Graphix, under a new series name Mousou Nouto.
A Trip to Tynemouth2006An adapted manga version of a translated collection of three young adult short stories written by Robert Westall.
Kaze Tachinu 2009The story of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter designer Jiro Horikoshi, which the animated film of the same name is based on. Published in Model Graphix with the subtitle Mousou Comeback.
Teppou Samurai 2015A manga series about samurai in Japan's Warring States era.