Miyazaki’s career did not start with Studio Ghibli, however. Miyazaki was born in 1941 and began his animation career in 1963 by joining Toei Animation, and began working on the film Gulliver Travels Beyond the Moon. Miyazaki directed and released his first feature film Lupin III The Castle of Cagliostro in 1979. With the success of Lupin III The Castle of Cagliostro and his next feature film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Miyazaki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki founded Studio Ghibli.
Until the release of Princess Mononoke Studio Ghibli, and Miyazaki were still much unknown to the West. Princess Mononoke continued to gain success in Japan and was the highest-grossing film in Japan until the release of Titanic. Princess Mononoke was the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards. Miyazaki than made, directed and …show more content…
Good vs. evil is not present in Miyazaki 's films. Every object and character display both a side of tender and softness and a side of savagery and darkness as well. Nothing in the worlds he creates are only black and white, they all contain a spectrum of all emotions. Miyazaki 's theme of morality is complex; he does not pander to an audience. Showing both that brutality and happiness that the world creates daily. Winning and high achievement is not Miyazaki 's protagonists primary objective but to become adaptive and growing with the world around them. His films and characters begin flawed and remain flawed, and they find spiritual liberation instead of a material