A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Shizuoka, Japan
Born:
September 19, 1974
Hidetaka Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎 英高, born September 19, 1974) is a renowned Japanese video game director, designer, writer, and the president of FromSoftware. He joined the company in 2004, initially working on the Armored Core series, and rose to international acclaim as the creator of the Dark Souls franchise. Miyazaki became president and representative director of FromSoftware in 2014. He has since directed several critically acclaimed titles, including Demon’s Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Elden Ring. For Elden Ring, Miyazaki collaborated with author George R. R. Martin, who contributed to the game’s lore and overarching mythos. His games are known for their high difficulty, atmospheric worldbuilding, and storytelling delivered through environmental design and subtle narrative cues rather than traditional dialogue. Widely regarded as an auteur in the video game industry, Miyazaki's distinctive style has helped define the "Soulslike" subgenre and influenced a generation of game designers.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.