FILM DIRECTOR

Hayao Miyazaki

1941 - Today

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Hayao 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hayao Miyazaki has received more than 17,035,499 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Hayao Miyazaki is the 4th most popular film director (up from 8th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Film Director.

Hayao Miyazaki is most famous for being a Japanese animator and film director. He is most famous for his films Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro.

Memorability Metrics

  • 17M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 84.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Hayao Miyazaki ranks 4 out of 2,041. Before him are Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Ingmar Bergman. After him are Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Hayao Miyazaki ranks 1. After him are Kim Jong-il, Bernie Sanders, Alex Ferguson, Slobodan Milošević, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Sergio Mattarella, Bernardo Bertolucci, Cesária Évora, Václav Klaus, and Krzysztof Kieślowski.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki ranks 2 out of 6,245. Before him are Hirohito (1901). After him are Hokusai (1760), Akihito (1933), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Emperor Meiji (1852), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki ranks 1. After him are Akira Kurosawa (1910), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Isao Takahata (1935), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Shohei Imamura (1926), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Hideaki Anno (1960), and Franklin J. Schaffner (1920).

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