History
Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of many of its films.
Isao Takahata, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and its second-most prolific director. Founded in June 1985, the studio is headed by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki. Prior to the formation of the studio, Miyazaki and Takahata had already had long careers in Japanese film and television animation and had worked together on Hols: Prince of the Sun and Panda! Go, Panda!; and Suzuki was an editor at Tokuma Shoten's Animage manga magazine.
