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Studio Ghibli people
- Hiromasa YonebayashiHiromasa Yonebayashi was, according to producer Toshio Suzuki, the most skilled animator at Studio Ghibli. That is a remarkable thing to say about anyone at…
- Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki was born on the 5th of January 1941 in Akebono-cho, Hongō, Tokyo City, the second of four sons in a family that manufactured rudders for…
- Yasuo ŌtsukaYasuo Otsuka was a Japanese animator whose career touched nearly every major studio in the history of Japanese animation.
- Toshio SuzukiToshio Suzuki was born in 1948 within the industrial city of Nagoya, located in Aichi Prefure. He developed a deep interest in literature and the arts during…
- Yoshifumi KondōYoshifumi Kondō died on the 21st of January 1998, at age 47, of an aortic dissection at Tachikawa City Hospital in Tokyo.
- Goro MiyazakiGoro Miyazaki was born on the 21st of January 1967 in Tokyo. He grew up as the son of animators Hayao Miyazaki and Akemi Ota.
- Hiroyuki MoritaHiroyuki Morita was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and grew up during the 1960s. He attended Fukuoka Kenritsu Chikushikoto School, where he began creating his…
- Tomomi MochizukiTomomi Mochizuki studied at Waseda University, where he joined the Waseda University Animation Association. This group provided his first real connection to…
- Isao TakahataIsao Takahata survived a United States air raid on Okayama City on the 29th of June, 1945. He was nine years old, separated from his parents for two days…
- Joe HisaishiJoe Hisaishi was born in Nakano, Nagano, Japan, and by the age of four he was already holding a violin, learning through the Suzuki method his parents had…