Curated playlist
Studio Ghibli people
- Hiromasa YonebayashiHiromasa Yonebayashi became Studio Ghibli's youngest feature director at 37. He had spent years as a key animator.
- Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki was told as a boy he would not live past 20. He went on to found Studio Ghibli in 1985.
- Yasuo ŌtsukaA realistic skeleton in Magic Boy made audiences laugh, and it changed Yasuo Ōtsuka's view of animation.
- Toshio SuzukiToshio Suzuki never directed a film, yet Miyazaki said Studio Ghibli wouldn't exist without him.
- Yoshifumi KondōYoshifumi Kondō directed only one film before he died at 47. Many at Studio Ghibli saw him as heir to Miyazaki.
- Goro MiyazakiGoro Miyazaki was hired to draw storyboards and ended up directing Tales from Earthsea.
- Hiroyuki MoritaHiroyuki Morita danced the idol choreography himself before drawing it into Perfect Blue.
- Tomomi MochizukiTomomi Mochizuki directs anime under one name and writes under another. His writing alias is Gō Sakamoto.
- Isao TakahataIsao Takahata survived an air raid at age nine, then made Grave of the Fireflies.
- Joe HisaishiJoe Hisaishi took his stage name from Quincy Jones. "Joe" came directly from "Jones," a private homage.