Hayao Miyazaki is one of the success stories of Anime. His movies and series are popular in the west as well as in Japan. Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) was the largest grossing movie of all time in Japan. Miyazaki has also done a deal with Disney to get the English video distribution world wide.. .though I've never seen copies in Australia.

Miyazaki has a huge filmography to his name, too big to list here, the entirety is available on this site. Miyazaki has a style rather unique in the Japanese animation industry, it follows a more realistic drawing style than many animators, rather than the standardised big eyes, small mouth insane hair style. The movies tend to be childish fantasies and warming stories, what Disney would be if they hadn't come up with an irritating formula involving sidekicks and song. There are also rumours of a Miyazaki adaption of Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, one of my favourite books and a movie I'd love to see made.