Born in 1948, Toshio Suzuki is the former president of Studio Ghibli and has been the producer for nearly every Ghibli film since Only Yesterday (1991). He joined the publishing company Tokuma Shoten in 1972 and launched the animation magazine Animage in 1978. After meeting Miyazaki, Suzuki commissioned a manga serial from Miyazaki that became Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind, which was then adapted into an animated feature by Miyazaki himself. He helped Miyazaki and Takahata found Studio Ghibli before leaving Tokuma Shoten in 1989 to officially join Ghibli. Though he stepped down as president of Studio Ghibli in 2008, he continues to serve as its managing director and executive producer.
Toshio Suzuki
Writer, Producer