Although it represents one of Japan's most immediate visiting cards all over the world, and perhaps one of the reasons why many in the West have come closer to its culture, the international audience knows only a few names related to Japanese animation: actually, without exaggeration, it can be said that most of those who consume anime know only the first and last name of the one who has been labeled - a bit simplistically - the Walt Disney of the East, Hayao Miyazaki, who is sometimes associated with his equally great companion of long-course adventures, recently missed - Isao Takahata.