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Akemi Ōta (大田 朱美) is a Japanese animator and author.

Biography
Ōta was born in 1938 to printmaker Koushi Ōta, one of the founders of the Japan Educational Print Association. After attending Tokyo Metropolitan Toyotama High School, she graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design Junior College.

She joined Toei Animation as an animator. In October 1965, she married her colleague Hayao Miyazaki. Her first son Goro Miyazaki was born in January 1967, while her second son Keisuke was born in April 1969. Though she initially continued working after Goro's birth, she later retired to raise her children. However, she said that for many years she regretted retiring because it was her husband's request rather than her own decision.

She served as a part-time director for the Totoro's Hometown Foundation, which promotes the national trust movement in places such as Totoro's Forest in the Sayama Hills. On 1 April 2011, when the Foundation was reorganized from an incorporated foundation into a public interest incorporated foundation and renamed the Totoro's Hometown Fund, she became a councilor for the Fund.

Filmography

 * The White Snake Enchantress (1958)
 * Young Sarutobi Sasuke (1959)
 * Alakazam the Great (1960)
 * The Orphan Brothers (1961)
 * Arabian Night's Sindbad the Sailer (1962)
 * The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963)
 * Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965)
 * The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968)
 * The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (1969)
 * Flying Phantom Ship (1969)
 * Animal Treasure Island (1971)
 * Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1971)
 * The Three Musketeers in Boots (1972)
 * Go Get Team 0011 (1972)