Toshio SuzukiJapanese film producer (born 1948) Toshio SuzukiSuzuki at the Venice premiere of Howl's Moving Castle in 2004Born (1948-08-19) August 19, 1948 (age 78)Nagoya, Aichi, JapanEducationKeio UniversityOccupationsFilm producerCo-Founder and chairman of Studio GhibliYears active1972–presentEmployersTokuma Shoten (1972–1989)Studio Ghibli (1989–present) Toshio Suzuki (Japanese: 鈴木 敏夫, Hepburn: Suzuki Toshio; born August 19, 1948) is a Japanese film producer and studio executive.
List of Studio Ghibli worksThis is a list of works (films, television, shorts etc.) by the Japanese animation studioStudio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli has produced 22 feature films, with its first being Castle in the Sky on August 2, 1986, and its latest being The Boy and the Heron on July 14, 2023. WorksFeature filmsTelevision filmsTelevision seriesShort filmsThese are short films, including those created for television, theatrical release, and the Ghibli Museum.TopcraftTopcraft Limited Company (Japanese: 株式会社トップクラフト, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Toppukurafuto), also written as "Top Craft", was a Japanese animation studio established in 1972, by former Toei Animation producer Toru Hara, and located in Tokyo, Japan. It was famous for the production of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Hayao Miyazaki's theatrical anime film adaptation of his 1982–94 manga series.
My Neighbor Totoro1988 film by Hayao MiyazakiDirected byHayao MiyazakiWritten byHayao MiyazakiProduced byToru HaraStarringNoriko HidakaChika SakamotoHitoshi TakagiCinematographyHisao ShiraiEdited byTakeshi SeyamaMusic byJoe HisaishiProductioncompanyStudio GhibliDistributed byTohoRelease dateApril 16, 1988 (1988-04-16)Running time86 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapaneseBox office$41 millionMy Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 or 宮﨑 駿, Miyazaki Hayao; [mijaꜜzaki hajao]; born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as its honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation.
Animation studioAn animation studio is a company producing animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals of the media produced. They also own rights over merchandising and creative rights for characters created or held by the company, much like authors holding copyrights.
Koganei, TokyoKoganei (小金井市, Koganei-shi) is a city located in the western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. As of 1 March 2021, the city had an estimated population of 123,698 in 61,832 households. The total area of the city is 11.30 square kilometres (4.36 sq mi) so the population density is about 11,000 persons per km².
Japanese languageJaponic languageJapanese (日本語, Nihongo; ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language.
Isao TakahataIsao Takahata (高畑 勲, Takahata Isao; October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018) was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films. Born in Ujiyamada, Mie Prefecture, Takahata joined Toei Animation after graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1959.
Hepburn romanizationHepburn (Japanese: ヘボン式ローマ字, romanized: Hebon-shiki rōmaji, lit.'Hepburn-style Roman letters') is the main system of romanizationfor the Japanese language. The system was originally published in 1867 by American Christian missionary and physician James Curtis Hepburn as the standard in the first edition of his Japanese–English dictionary.
KamiKami (Japanese: ; ) are the deities, divinities, spirits, and mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the traditional Shinto religion of Japan. Kami can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, beings and the qualities that these beings express, as well as the spirits of venerated dead people.
Kabushiki gaishaA kabushiki gaisha (Japanese: 株式会社; pronounced [kabɯɕi̥ki ɡaꜜiɕa] ; lit. 'share company') or kabushiki kaisha, commonly abbreviated K.K. or KK, is a type of company (会社, kaisha) defined under the Companies Act of Japan. The term is often translated as "stock company", "joint-stock company" or "stock corporation".
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