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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 Nagoya in 1948, in Aichi Prefecture, and the animation world might look entirely different had he stayed a magazine editor.
- 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 entered his first completed film's premiere on the 28th of June 2006 with the weight of an impossible name.
- Hiroyuki MoritaHiroyuki Morita danced the idol choreography himself before drawing a single frame of it into Perfect Blue. That instinct, to get the fundamentals right…
- Tomomi MochizukiTomomi Mochizuki has two professional names. Under one, he directs. Under the other, he writes. He is a director, storyboard artist, and screenwriter whose…
- 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…