World Masterpiece Theater Series

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Heidi, Girl of the Alps, The Bush Baby, Anne of Green Gables, Dororo, Moomin, 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother, Nippon Animation, Princess Sarah, Remi, Nobody's Girl, World Masterpiece Theater, My Daddy Long Legs, New Moomin, The Adventures of Peter Pan, Les Mis rables: Sh jo Cosette, Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables, Little Women, The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island, Romeo's Blue Skies, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Katri, Girl of the Meadows, Lucy of the Southern Rainbow, Trapp Family Story, Little Women II: Jo's Boys, Rascal the Raccoon, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Fables of the Green Forest, Dog of Flanders, The Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love, Famous Dog Lassie, The Story of Perrine, Tico of the Seven Seas, Porphy no Nagai Tabi, Story of the Alps: My Annette, Andersen Monogatari. Excerpt: Hayao Miyazaki Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park and Robert Zemeckis, and he has been named one of the most influential people by Time magazine. Miyazaki began his career at Toei Animation as an in-between artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon where he pitched his own ideas that eventually became the movie's ending. He continued to work in various roles in the animation industry over the decade until he was able to direct his first feature film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro which was released in 1979. Af...