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This page contains a listing of books written by or about Hayao MIYAZAKI. You can order these books through anime import stores listed in our Shopping Guide, though some of these titles may be out of print. If you have additional information on any of these titles, information on any titles we missed, or scans of any of the covers, please let us know.

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Italian

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English

 

Anime Art cover The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki
 
Author:
 Dani Cavallaro
Publisher:
 McFarland & Co.
Year:
 24 January 2006
ISBN:
 0-7864-2369-2
Price:
 US$35
Notes:
 Covers Miyazaki from his pre-Ghibli work to Howl's Moving Castle. Other topic include non-Miyazaki Studio Ghibli flims, merchandise, and Miyazaki's global fan base. Softcover, 212 pages. Related URLs:

 
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Master cover Hayao Miyazaki - Master of Japanese Animation
 
Author:
 Helen McCarthy
Publisher:
 Stone Bridge Press
Year:
 1999
ISBN:
 1-880656-41-8
Price:
 US$18.95
Notes:
 The first English-language book exclusively about Hayao Miyazaki, with an introduction about the man and detailed discussions of his seven most important films. Also has a complete filmography with selected manga, plus a bibliography of related materials. Paperback, 240 pages, 7x9 inches. Related URLs:

 
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Italian

 

God of Anime cover Hayao Miyazaki il dio dell'anime
(Hayao Miyazaki: God of Anime)
 
Author:
 Alessandro Bencivenni
Publisher:
 Le Mani
Year:
 2005
ISBN:
 88-89645-01-6
Price:
 €14,00
Notes:
 Covers Miyazaki and works up to Howl's Moving Castle. 180 pages.

 
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God of Anime cover Hayao Miyazaki il dio dell'anime
(Hayao Miyazaki: God of Anime)
 
Author:
 Alessandro Bencivenni
Publisher:
 Le Mani
Year:
 2004
ISBN:
 88-8012-251-7
Price:
 --
Notes:
 Covers Miyazaki and works up to Spirited Away. 156 pages. Scan of the back cover.

 
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Il cinema di Miyazaki Hayao cover L'incanto del mondo. Il cinema di Miyazaki Hayao
(The enchantment of the world. The cinema of Hayao Miyazaki)
 
Author:
 Anna Antonini
Publisher:
 Il Principe Costante
Year:
 2005
ISBN:
 88-89645-01-6
Price:
 €14,00
Notes:
 Covers Miyazaki and works up to Howl's Moving Castle. 192 pages. Update of a 2003 edition.

 
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Japanese

 

Totoro's Forest! cover pic A, Totoro no Mori da!
(Look, It's Totoro's Forest!)
 
Author:
Illustrations:
 Naoko KUDO
Hayao MIYAZAKI
Publisher:
 Tokuma Shoten
Year:
 1992
ISBN:
 --
Price:
 ¥1500
Notes:
 Cover and frontpiece illustrations are by Miyazaki. The book explains the Totoro's Home National Trust Movement; the movement to save the forest in the Sayama Hills. Totoro is the mascot of this movement.

 
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Picture Unavailable Chesutaton no 1984-nen, Shin Naporeon Kitan
(Chesterton's 1984: A New Tale of Napoleon)
 
Author:
Cover:
 --
Hayao MIYAZAKI
Publisher:
 Shunjuusha
Date:
 1984
ISBN:
 --
Price:
 ¥1600
Notes:
 Cover illustration by Miyazaki.

 
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Picture Unavailable Chuunen ha Kouya wo Mezasu zo
(A Middle-aged Man Runs Toward the Wasteland)
 
Authors:
 --
Publisher:
 Nigensha
Date:
 September 1993
ISBN:
 --
Price:
 ¥
Notes:
 The September 1993 issue of NAVI magazine. Miyazaki wrote a 3-pages manga about his new car, a British Triking (sp?). It's a three-wheeler with 950cc V two-cylinder engine. There are photos of this car along with an interview article (with Mamoru OSHII) in the October 1993 issue of Animage.

 
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Complete Hayao Miyazaki cover Complete Hayao Miyazaki
 
Authors:
 Seiji Kanou
Publisher:
 Filmart
Date:
 25 March 2006
ISBN:
 4-8459-0687-2
Price:
 ¥2400
Notes:
 Covers nine feature films and nine shorts. Sections for each work are:
  1. Credits
  2. Synopsis
  3. Production Process
  4. Film Sources
  5. Technical Achievement
  6. Deleted Scenes
  7. Production Staff
  8. Voice Cast
  9. Music and Theme Song
  10. Advertising and Performance
  11. Release and Afterward
  12. Overseas Reaction
  13. Main Review
  14. General Comments
From the Institute of Isao Takahata & Hayao Miyazaki, 344 pages.

 
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Jidai no Kazaoto cover pic Jidai no Kazaoto
(The Sound of the Wind of the Times)
 
Authors:
 --
Publisher:
 UPU
Date:
 1992
ISBN:
 4-946432-70-1
Price:
 ¥1533
Notes:
 Yoshie HOTTA and Ryoutarou SHIBA interview Miyazaki about the meaning of 20th century.

 
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Picture Unavailable Kakero Nibariki Kaze yori Hayaku
(Run, C2V, Faster Than the Wind)
 
Authors:
 Hayao MIYAZAKI, et al.
Publisher:
 Nigensha
Date:
 December 1989
ISBN:
 --
Price:
 ¥
Notes:
 December 1989 issue of NAVI. Miyazaki wrote a manga about his car, a Citroen 2CV.

 
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Kaze no Kaeru Basho cover Kaze no Kaeru Basho - Naushika kara Chihiro made no Kiseki
(The Place Where the Wind Returns -- The Tracks from Nausicaa to Chihiro)
 
Authors:
 --
Publisher:
 --
Date:
 19 July 2002
ISBN:
 4-86052-007-6
Price:
 ¥1600
Notes:
 Contains five long interviews with Miyazaki conducted over the course of the 12 years and which had appeared in various magazines previously. Some overlap with this book. 352 pages.

 
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Filmmakers cover Kinema Junpou Mukku Firumumeikaazu Chuumoku no Eizou Sakka Shiriizu - Miyazaki Hayao
(Kinema Jump Mook: Filmmakers Notable Image Makers Series 6 - Hayao Miyazaki)
 
Authors:
 Takeshi Yorou, Editor
Publisher:
 Kinema Junpousha
Date:
 1999
ISBN:
 4-87376-511-0
Price:
 ¥1600
Notes:
 Contains interviews with Miyazaki, Sumi Shimamoto (voice actress of Nausicaa), Youichi Kotabe and Reiko Okuyama (worked on Heidi and other early works with Miyazaki, and some articles about Miyazaki and his films. Includes a black and white version of Imouto he (To My Sister).

 
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Kinejun 1166 cover Kinema Junpou 1166: Miyazaki Hayao, Takahata Isao to Sutajio Jiburi no Animeishon-tachi
(Kinema Jump 1166: Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and the Animators of Studio Ghibli)
 
Authors:
 --
Publisher:
 Kinema Junpousha
Date:
 16 July 1995
ISBN:
 --
Price:
 ¥1529
Notes:
 Articles about Miyazaki and takahata, a complete filmography (up to that point), interviews with Kazuo OHTSUKA, Yoshifumi KONDOU, and Toshio SUZUKI.

 
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Japan's Three Directors cover pic Kurosawa Akira, Miyazaki Hayao, Kitano Takeshi - Nihon no Sannin no Enshutsuka
(Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Takeshi Kitano: Japan's Three Directors)
 
Authors:
 --
Publisher:
 Rocking On
Year:
 1993
ISBN:
 4-947599-26-X
Price:
 ¥1650
Notes:
 A compilation of interviews done for the monthly interview magazine CUT.

 
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Image Board cover Miyazaki Hayao Imeijiboudo-shuu
(Hayao Miyazaki Imageboard Collection)
 
Authors:
 Hayao MIYAZAKI
Publisher:
 Koudansha
Year:
 1983
ISBN:
 4-06-108068-7
Price:
 ¥1300
Notes:
 Contains some of Miyazaki's imageboard works, including the early forms of "Totoro" and "Mononoke".

 
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Cover scan Miyazaki Hayao, Ohtsuka Yasuo no Sekai
(The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki and Yasuo Ohtsuka)
 
Authors:
 --
Publisher:
 Office Action
Year:
 1982
ISBN:
 --
Price:
 ¥4500
Notes:
 All about the animation of Miyazaki and Ohtsuka.

 
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Picture Unavailable Nani ga Eiga ka - 'Shichinin Samurai' to 'Maadadayo' wo Megutte
(What is a Movie? About "Seven Samurai" and "Maadadayo")
 
Authors:
 --
Publisher:
 Tokuma Shoten
Year:
 1993
ISBN:
 4-19-555272-9
Price:
 ¥2136
Notes:
 Miyazaki and Akira KUROSAWA have a conversation in this transcription of a TV program.

 
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Picture Unavailable 'Nichijousei' no Yukue - Miyazaki Anime wo Yomu
(The Whereabouts of 'Dailiness': Reading Miyazaki Anime)
 
Authors:
 Yashio KAWAKITA
Publisher:
 JICC
Year:
 1992
ISBN:
 4-7966-0304-2
Price:
 ¥1602
Notes:
 A critical review work on Miyazaki's films. 256 pages. Contents:

Introduction
 · Why Miyazaki Anime, now?
Part I
 · Beyond the Landscape of 'Death': From "Hotaru no Haka" to "Tonari no Totoro"
 · Two Anime and 'The Present Age'

  • Chapter 1: Anime "Hotaru no Haka" and the Present World's 'Smell of Dead'
  • Chapter 2: A Look of 'Cure': A Landscape of "Kaze no Tani no Naushika"
  • Chapter 3: What is an 'Analogy' in SF?: A Glance into "Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta"
  • Chapter 4: Revival of the Story of 'Living Body': The Universe of "Tonari no Totoro"
  • Supplement: Change of Ohmu
Part II
 · Beyond the Pressure of 'Weathering'
  • Chapter 5: Two "Majo no Takkyuubin"
      One
    • A Pathology of 'Illustory Body': Unclearness of Anime "Majo no Takkyuubin"
      Two
    • Revival and Self-Independence of the Usual Body: The Natural Feeling in KADONO Eiko's "Majo no Takkyuubin"
  • Chapter 6: "Omohide Poro Poro" as a Mirror of Pathology
      One
    • A Regressional Ideology and the Pressure to Weather: 'Twist' in the Anime "Omohide Poro Poro"
      Two
    • 'Incompatibility' to Family and the Present: Liveliness of OKAMOTO Hotaru and TONE Yuuko's "Omohide Poro Poro"

Afterword

 
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Miyazaki & Anno cover Roman Album Animeiju Tokubetsuhen Supesharu Miyazaki Hayao to Anno Hideaki
(Roman Album - Animage Special Edition: Hayao Miyazaki and Hideaki Anno)
 
Authors:
 --
Publisher:
 Tokuma Shoten
Date:
 10 June 1998
ISBN:
 4-19-720046-3
Price:
 ¥600
Notes:
  

 
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Shuppatsuten cover pic Shuppatsuten 1979-1996
(Starting Point, 1979-1996)
 
Authors:
 Hayao MIYAZAKI
Publisher:
 Tokuma Shoten
Year:
 1996
ISBN:
 4-19-860541-6
Price:
 ¥2621
Notes:
 Compilation of essays by Miyazaki and interviews with Miyazaki. Includes some graphical essays and idea sketches. Also includes an essay written by Isao TAKAHATA about Miyazaki. 584 pages.

 
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Picture Unavailable Toki ni ha Mukashi no Hanashi wo
(Once in a While, Talk of the Old Days)
 
Authors:
 Hayao MIYAZAKI
Tokiko KATO
Publisher:
 Tokuma Shoten
Year:
 1992
ISBN:
 4-19-554946-9
Price:
 ¥1942
Notes:
 Tokiko KATO was the voice actress of Gina. Includes the illustrations by Miyazaki from the ending of the movie, lyrics by KATO, and an interview with both of them.

 
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Totoro no Sumu Ie cover pic Totoro no Sumu Ie
(Houses Where Totoro Lives)
 
Author:
Illustrations:
Photography:
 Hayao MIYAZAKI
Hayao Miyazaki
Hisashi WADA
Publisher:
 Asahi Shinbunsha
Date:
 December 1991
ISBN:
 4-02-256385-0
Price:
 ¥2150
Notes:
 Miyazaki visits and reports on aged houses in Tokyo suburbs. It was originally seriallized in Monthly Asahi in first half of 1991. 74 pages.

 
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Tree cover pic Tree
 
Author:
Illustrations:
 C.W. Nichols
Hayao Miyazaki
Publisher:
 Tokuma Shoten
Year:
 1989
ISBN:
 4-19-669643-0
Price:
 ¥1400
Notes:
 Nichols is a naturalist who lives in Japan. Illustrations including cover by Miyazaki. Also includes an interview with Nichols and Miyazaki. There is a pocket-size edition of this book.

 
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Witches of Karres cover Wakusei Karesu no Majo
(The Witches of Karres)
 
Author:
Translation:
Cover:
 James H. Schmitz
Sanpei Kamata
Hayao Miyazaki
Publisher:
 Shincho Bunko, later reissued by Sougen SF Bunko
Year:
 1987, reissue 1996
ISBN:
 4-488-70801-3
Price:
 ¥440, reissue ¥730
Notes:
 Both editions used the same illustration by Miyazaki for the cover but had different styles of text. The version pictured here is the 1996 reissued book.

 
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