#3- History part 1

The directors, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki are the studio head. At first, Miyazaki and Takahata had already had long careers in Japanese film and television animation. Suzuki was an editor at Tokuma Shoten's Animage manga magazine. Then the studio was founded after the success of "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", written and directed by Miyazaki for Topcraft and distributed by Toei in 1984. "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" was based on the first two volumes of a serialized manga writtedn by Miyazaki for publication in Animage and a way to generate interest in an anime version. Suzuki was invited along with Takahata into the new production team on the film and founded Studio Ghibli by Miyazaki.

Miyazaki and the second most prolific director being Takahata has mainly produced films in the studio. Yoshifumi Kondo, Hiroyuki Morita, Goro Miyazaki and many other directors who worked in the Studio Ghibli has provided all of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films with the soundtracks. Toho distributed many of Ghibli's works in Japan. The Walt Disney Company, internationally, gain the rights to all of Ghibli's output that did not have previous international distribution, including global, non-Japan distribution rights to Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.