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Born this day in Tokyo in 1941, Hayao Miyazak, a Japan­ese artist, film direc­tor and ani­ma­tor of many pop­u­lar fan­tasy fea­ture films. In his fifty year career he has pro­duced and directed over a dozen inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed films, along with part­ner Isao Taka­hata, founded Stu­dio Ghi­bli, an ani­ma­tion stu­dio and pro­duc­tion com­pany. The suc­cess of Miyazaki’s films has invited com­par­isons with Amer­i­can ani­ma­tor Walt Dis­ney, and he has been named one of the most influ­en­tial peo­ple by Time mag­a­zine.
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