Who is Hayao Miyazaki?

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Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmaker, and 

manga artist. Born in January 5 1942 to Dola Miyazaki

 and Katsuji Miyazaki in Tokyo City. He is the second son of four. His father, Katsuji Miyazaki  was the director of Miyazaki Airplane, his brother's company, which manufactured rudders for fighter planes during WW2. The business allowed his family to remain affluent during Miyazaki's early life. After his fathers death in 1993, he felt that he had looked negatively at his father. He regretted not having a serious discussion with his father, and felt that he had inherited his "anarchistic feelings and his lack of concern about embracing contradictons. When he was just three years old, him and his family had to fled to Kanuma after the bombing of Utsunomiya. The bombing left a lasting impression on Miyazaki. At age four he suffered from digestive problems, and was told that he would not live beyond 20 years old, it made him feel like an outcast. From 1947 to 1955, Miyazaki's mother Dola suffered from spinal tuberculosis ;  She was very close to Miyazaki, and had a strong influence on him and his later work. Dola Miyazaki died in July 1983 at the age of 72.  Miyazaki started elementary in 1947 at a school in Utsunomiya then completed the fourth grade in Suginami-ku at Omiya Elementary and continued to study in Omiya schools until high school. After his graduation he aspired to become a manga artist, but found out that he could not draw people; instead, he only drew planes, tanks and battleships for years. Miyazaki destroyed much of his early work, believing it was "bad form" to copy Tezuka's style as it was hindering his own development as an artist. Around this time, Miyazaki would often see movies with his father, who was an avid moviegoer; memorable films for Miyazaki include Meshi (1951) and Tasogare Sakaba (1955). After seeing Panda and the Magic Serpent(1958),Japan's first feature-length animated film in color; he aspired to be an animator. Around this time, he drew some mangas; he never completed any stories, but head a pile of thousands of pages of the beginnings of stories. He also frequently approached manga publishers to rent their stories. Miyazaki graduated from Gakushuin in 1963 with degrees in political science and economics

He joined Toei Animation in 1963. During his early years at Toei Aniamtion he worked as an in-between artist and later collaborated with director İsao Takahata. Miyazaki provided key animation for The Wonderful World of Puss'n Boots(1969), directed by Kimio Yabuki. He created a 12-chapter manga series as a promotional tie-in for the film; the series ran in the Sunday edition of Tokyo Shimbun from January to March 1969. Miyazaki left Toei Animation in August 1971, and was hired at A-Pro, where he directed, or co-directed with Takahata, 23 episodes of Lupin the Third Part 1. After working with İsao Takahata so long; they created Studio Ghibli in June 15 1985. Miyazaki has gained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and a creator of Japanese animation films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished film makers in the history on animation.