Isao Takahata   

• Isao Takahata is colleague of Hayao Miyazaki.   

  •  Takahata started his career as a director.  

  •  Takahata born in year 1935, he graduated from the most prestigious
      university in Japan, Tokyo University, and joined the newly founded
      animation studio Toei Doga in year 1959.   

  •  He knew Miyazaki through the animators' union at Toei Doga. His first
      movie, Horus: the Prince of the Sun (1986) is one of the greatest
      examples of Japanese Animation.Miyazaki worked as an animator for
      this movie, providing numerous ideas.   

  •  Takahata and Miyazaki continued to work as a director-animator team
     for many great animated masterpieces, including Lupin III, Heidi, 3000
     Leagues in Search of Mother, and Anne of Green Gables.   

  •  Takahata produced Miyazaki's movie, Laputa, the Castle in the Sky in
      year 1986.   

  •  He then directed his first Ghibli movie, Grave of the Fireflies in year
     1988.