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What are the works of Hayao Miyazaki?

Classic works include: "Castle in the Sky", "Spirited Away", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Howl's Moving Castle", etc.

Miyazaki Hayao, born on January 5, 1941 in Bunkyo District, Tokyo, is a Japanese animator, animation producer, cartoonist, animation director, and animation screenwriter. Graduated from the Department of Political Science and Economics, Tokyo Gakushuin University, Japan.

In 1941, Hayao Miyazaki was born in Bunkyo District, Tokyo. He graduated from Suginami District Eifu Elementary School, Suginami District Omiya Junior High School, Tokyo Metropolitan Toyotama High School and Gakushuin University School of Political Science and Economics. The second among four brothers, his father is an employee of "Miyazaki Aviation Education" run by the Miyazaki family. Due to wartime evacuation during World War II, the family moved to Utsunomiya City and Kanuma City. His family ran an aircraft factory, which was a military-industrial enterprise, so he was able to maintain a fairly subsistence life despite material shortages in the late war. Hayao Miyazaki lived a fairly free childhood. However, Hayao Miyazaki, who grew up in this environment, unexpectedly began to doubt his family's privileges. Miyazaki's father told him that in fact, the aircraft tails produced by the Miyazaki family did not meet the standards at all. They were all made and processed by temporary female workers without formal training. They only needed to bribe military managers and the products could pass. These tricks, which may seem understandable to adults, left indelible traces in Miyazaki's heart, triggering his thinking about human nature and influencing his creative style as an animation director. Hayao Miyazaki was not good at sports due to poor health since childhood. Therefore, he was very talented in static painting. He was especially interested in airplanes, which became a lifelong hobby [14].

In 1958, when Hayao Miyazaki was in the third grade of high school, the first color animated feature film "White Snake" in Japanese history was released, and he began to become interested in animation.

In 1959, Hayao Miyazaki entered the Political and Economic Department of Gakushuin University. There was no comics club in the university, so I joined the Children's Literature Research Society, which was the closest to it. The only member was Hayao Miyazaki. While in college, he created a large number of comics and submitted them to Loiben Comics Publishing House, but the works were not completed. Miyazaki was just a bystander in the security movement and only participated as a non-partisan at the last moment. Hayao Miyazaki also began to lean towards socialism ideologically. The collapse of the Soviet Union had a great impact on his thinking. Although he faced the reality of the defeat of socialism, his affirmative stance towards workers and revolution has never changed. After Hayao Miyazaki serialized the comic "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" in 1994, he decided to abandon Marxism.