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- Toshio Suzuki is a film producer of anime and a long-time colleague of Hayao Miyazaki, as well as the former president of Studio Ghibli.
Suzuki is renowned as one of Japan's most successful producers after the enormous box office success (in Japan) of many Ghibli films. Suzuki was born in Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture in 1948. In 1967 he enrolled at Keio University and graduated with a degree in literature in 1972.
In 1985 Suzuki was also involved with Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg.
In 2014, Suzuki was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as the producer of The Wind Rises, along with Hayao Miyazaki. And in 2017, he was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as the producer of The Red Turtle.
- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges
- Co-founder of Studio Ghibli.
- Graduated from Keio University with a degree in literature
- Hayao Miyazaki once said this about Toshio Suzuki : "If it were not for Mr. Suzuki, there wouldn't have been Studio Ghibli.".
- Suzuki made his debut as a producer in his fellow Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 animated film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
- The "No-Marketing" Strategy: For the 2023 film The Boy and the Heron, Suzuki decided to release no trailers and no plot summaries. He believed that in an age of information overload, doing "nothing" would actually be the most effective way to pique audience curiosity.
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