Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie)

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©1984 Nibariki • Tokuma Shoten • Hakuhodo

[ adapted from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga) ]

Alternative title:

Chiến binh thung lũng gió (Vietnamese)

Guerreros del Viento (Spanish)

Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä (Japanese)

La Princesse des Étoiles (French)

Nausicaa aus dem Tal der Winde (German)

Nausicaä de la vallée du vent (French)

Nausicaa del Valle del Viento (Spanish)

Nausicaa della Valle del Vento (Italian)

Nausicaa fra vindenes dal (Danish)

Nausicaä från vindarnas dal (Swedish)

Nausicaä z Doliny Wiatru (Polish)

Nausicaä, a Princesa do Vale do Vento (Portuguese)

Nauszika - A szél harcosai

SternenKrieger (German)

Vindens krigare

Warriors of the Wind

Навсикая из Долины Ветров (Russian)

風の谷のナウシカ (Japanese)

風之谷 (Chinese (Taiwan))

바람 계곡의 나우시카 (Korean)

바람의 골짜기의 나우시카 (Korean)

Genres: adventure

, fantasy

Themes: post-apocalyptic

Objectionable content: Significant

Plot Summary: In the post-apocalyptic future, large parts of the world have been swallowed up by forests of poisonous fungi. The remaining humans live near the fungus and its monstrous insectoid inhabitants, trying to prevent its spread. One of the human kingdoms, the peaceful Valley of Wind, loves its gentle Princess Nausicaä and her father the king, but their peace is about to be broken, as they are swallowed up in the machinations of their larger, warmongering neighbours. However, Nausicaä has hidden potential, and may yet change the fate of the world.

User Ratings: 4532 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 1615 votes (sub:962, dub:540, raw:28, ?:12, edit.dub:6, others:67

22 Spanish subtitled
12 German dubbed
7 French subtitled
5 Russian dubbed
3 Portuguese subtitled
3 German subtitled
3 Spanish dubbed
2 Russian subtitled
2 French dubbed
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2 Italian subtitled
1 Cantonese subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Finnish subtitled
1 Cantonese dubbed

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Excellent: 1357 votes (sub:812, dub:475, raw:11, ?:11, edit.dub:3, Eng:1, others:44

8 Spanish subtitled
5 German dubbed
5 Portuguese subtitled
5 Italian dubbed
4 French subtitled
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1 Spanish dubbed
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1 Arabic subtitled
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1 French dubbed
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Very good: 806 votes (sub:465, dub:303, raw:6, ?:6, edit.dub:1, others:25

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1 Swedish subtitled
1 French dubbed

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Good: 444 votes (sub:248, dub:176, ?:4, raw:3, others:13

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Decent: 138 votes (sub:85, dub:46, ?:3, others:4

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So-so: 69 votes (sub:42, dub:24, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:1

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Not really good: 37 votes (sub:18, dub:15, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:2

1 German dubbed
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Weak: 29 votes (sub:18, dub:10, edit.dub:1)

Bad: 16 votes (sub:11, dub:4, ?:1)

Awful: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)

Worst ever: 19 votes (sub:16, dub:2, ?:1)

Seen in part or in whole by 7015 users, rank: #66 (of 5563)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.685 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.5231, rank: #113 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 8.650 (Excellent−), rank: #106 (of 5553) (seen all: 8.67 / seen some: 6.34 / won't finish: 3.70)
Bayesian estimate: 8.647 (Excellent−), rank: #35 (of 4225)

Running time: 116 minutes

Vintage:

1984-03-06

2011-11-11 (3xl - Televisió de Catalunya)

Premiere date:

1984-03-11 (Japan)

2011-06-23 (Denmark)

Release dates: We have 18

Chronology:

(1981-12) First ad for Nausicaa Manga in Animage

(1982-02) First chapter of Manga serialized in Animage

(1983-05-31) Production Begins

(1984-03-06) Production Finishes

(1994-03) Final chapter of Manga serialized in Animage

Opening Theme:

"Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä" (風の谷のナウシカ; Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) by Joe Hisaishi

Ending Theme:

"Tori no Hito" (鳥の人; Bird Person) by Joe Hisaishi

Official website:

Madman NZ's Official Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Sales Site

Madman's Official Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Website

Miyazaki Collection - The Offiicial Website - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (English/Japanese DVD)

Optimum's Official Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Sales Site

Links: We have 5

Trivia: We have 6

Comment:

Considered to be Hayao Miyazaki's "Life's Work", Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, was first published as an ongoing Manga series in Tokuma Shoten's Manga anthology Monthly Animage.

It took over 12 years for Miyazaki to write Nausicaa and for Animage to publish it, it is however important to realize that Miyazaki did not work on Nausicaa constantly over the 12 year period. Several times he put Nausicaa on the side to work on movie projects (including the Nausicaa movie). Over the 12 year period a total of 59 chapters were published, or roughly 5 years worth of Manga.

In mid 1983 Miyazaki stoped working on the Manga to focus on producing the movie. Tokuma Shoten funded production of the film which was done at a studio called Topcraft (Studio Ghibli had not yet been founded).

The finished movie spent aproximately 3 months in theatres. The success of Nausicaa was largely responsible for the creation of Studio Ghibli.

In 1985 an English dub of Nausicaa was released in North America by New World Video. Believing that Nausicaa could not be properly marketed in the United States as it was, New World cut a large amount of the film and re-wrote the story, creating a much more juvenile film. This English version was then released under the name "Warriors of the Wind" and was distributed on VHS by Orion Home Video for several year (until 1995 when the license expired).

Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli were horified by the changes made to the movie. The experience caused Miyazaki to take a hard line on future licenses, requiring that a "no edit" clause be included in all contracts. When Disney was preparing Mononoke for release in North America Miyazaki sent them an authentic Samurai Sword with a short and simple message "No Cuts."

Nausicaa was included in the Tokuma / Disney deal and Disney is currently working on an English dub for release sometime in 2004.

The Nausicaa Manga is available in English from Viz Communications.

Nausicaa.Net is an excellent source for more information on this and any other Miyazaki or Ghibli project.