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Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning anime Spirited Away is now a West End hit, as live shows sell out at the London Coliseum

The studio was launched by the pair in 1985, following the success the previous year of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, directed by Miyazaki – who would go …

Hayao Miyazaki: the career of anime legend, 83, behind Studio Ghibli, who won his second Oscar for his ‘final’ film The Boy and the Heron

by Haddis Thomas

The beloved characters dreamt up by Miyazaki include cuddly yet mysterious spirit creature Totoro – the mascot of his celebrated production house. A scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke, 1997. …

Hayao Miyazaki’s anime The Boy and the Heron tops the North American box office, a first for the Japanese master

by Haddis Thomas

For the first time in Hayao Miyazaki’s decades-spanning career, the 82-year-old Japanese anime master is No 1 at the North American box office. Miyazaki’s latest enchantment, The Boy and the …