Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie)
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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 Vall del Vent (Spanish)
Nausicaä de la vallée du vent (French)
Nausicaa del Valle del Viento (Spanish)
Nausicaa della Valle del Vento (Italian)
Nausicaä do Vale do Vento (Portuguese)
Nausicaa fra vindenes dal (Danish)
Nausicaä från vindarnas dal (Swedish)
Nausicaä z Doliny Wiatru (Polish)
Nausicaä, a Princesa do Vale do Vento (Portuguese)
SternenKrieger (German)
Warriors of the Wind
Навсикая из Долины Ветров (Russian)
ناوسيكا أميرة وادي الرياح (Arabic)
風の谷のナウシカ (Japanese)
風之谷 (Chinese (Taiwan))
바람 계곡의 나우시카 (Korean)
바람의 골짜기의 나우시카 (Korean)
Themes:
giant insects,
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:
5178 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
116 minutes
Vintage:
1984-03-06
2010-02-03 (Señal Colombia - Colombia)
2011-11-11 (3xl - Televisió de Catalunya)
2015-11-14 (Pakapaka)
Premiere date:
1984-03-11 (Japan)
2011-06-23 (Denmark)
Release dates: We have 19
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:
Links: We have 6
Trivia: We have 4
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.
Nausicaa was included in the Tokuma / Disney deal and Disney is currently working on an English dub for release sometime in 2004.
Reviews:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind BD+DVD (Nov 23, 2014)
Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind DVD (Mar 16, 2005)
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Director: Hayao Miyazaki Music: Joe Hisaishi Original story: Hayao Miyazaki Art Director: Mitsuki Nakamura Animation Director: Kazuo Komatsubara Sound Director: Shigeharu Shiba Background Art: Hiroko Murai Kaoru Chiba Kazuhiro Kinoshita Kazuo Ebisawa Kazuo Okada Kimiko Shimono Kuniko Nishimura Masaki Yoshizaki Miyoshi Takanami Satoshi Miura Tatsuo Aoki Tatsuo Imamura Tetsuto Shimono Tokue Okazaki Toshiro Nozaki Yoshiko Togashi Yūko Sugiyama Finish Animation: Chiharu Mizuma Emiko Ishii Hiromi Nagamine Makiko Yamauchi Masayo Yoshida Richiko Shimizu Taeko Oumi Tomohiro Yamamuro Wakako Kanno Yumi Furuya Finish Check: Homi Okiwara Harmony Effect: Noriko Takaya Image Song Arrangenment: Mitsuo Hagita In-Between Animation: Daijirō Sakamoto Junko Yano Kazuhiro Ikeda Kazuhisa Nagai Kazuyoshi Yaginuma Kiyo Mizutani Kiyoko Saitō Kōji Iwai Mahiro Maeda Masako Kondou Sachiko Tada Taira Sanuki Takayo Mizutani Umanosuke Iida Yasushi Tanizawa Yasutaka Hanabusa Yoshiko Nakamura Yoshiko Sasaki Yukari Watanabe Yukie Takahashi Yumiko Taguchi Ink & Paint Check: Homi Ogiwara Key Animation: Hideaki Anno Hidekazu Ohara Junko Ikeda Kazuyuki Kobayashi Kitarō Kōsaka Makiko Futaki (uncredited) Masaaki Endō (uncredited) Megumi Kagawa Michitaka Kikuchi (uncredited) Noboru Takano Osamu Nabeshima Shouji Tomiyama Tadakatsu Yoshida Tadashi Fukuda Takanori Hayashi Takashi Nakamura Takashi Watanabe Toshitsugu Saida Tsukasa Tannai Yōichi Kotabe Yoshinori Kanada Yukiyoshi Hane Production: Tōru Hara Production Committee: Kenji Obara Kentarou Nakatani Osamu Kameyama Shirou Miyazaki Takashi Satō Toshio Suzuki Tsutomu Ōtsuka Yutaka Wada Production Desk: Shigehiro Suzuki Production manager: Kiyoshi Sakai Publicity Producer: Masaya Tokuyama Sound Arrangement: Kunio Kuwabara Special Effects: Nobuko Mizuta Supporting Photography: Akio Hirayama (Takahashi Production) Masao Miyauchi (Takahashi Production) Takeo Kobayashi (Takahashi Production) Theme Song Performance: Narumi Yasuda | Sumi Shimamoto as Gorō Naya as Yōji Matsuda as Yoshiko Sakakibara as Akiko Tsuboi as Bin Shimada as Chika Sakamoto as Hisako Ayuhara as Hisako Kyōda as Hōchū Ōtsuka as Ichirō Nagai as Iemasa Kayumi as Jōji Yanami as Kōhei Miyauchi as Mahito Tsujimura as Masako Sugaya as Miina Tominaga as Minoru Yada as Mugihito as Shinji Nomura as Takako Ohta as Takako Sasuga as Takeki Nakamura as TARAKO as Tetsuo Mizutori as | |||
Animation Production: Top Craft Distributor: Toei Company, Ltd. Film Developing: Toei Chemical Industry Sound Effects: E&M Planning Center Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion Supporting Animation: AGU Dōga Kōbō Hadashi Pro Kusama Art Oh! Production Random Studio 501 Studio Aton Studio Pokke Studio Toto Yamato Pro Supporting Finish Animation: AIC E&G World Hadashi Pro Hokusai IM Studio Shinsei Pro Studio 2001 Studio Hibari Studio Marine Studio Robin Yamato Pro Yūminsha Titles: Takagu Atelier | ||||
Color Timing: Chris DeLaGuardia Creative Consultant: David Schmoeller (1985 dub) Dialogue Recording: Bill Komar Post-Production Manager: David Candiff Re-Recording Mixing: Tom Dahl Supervising ADR Editor: Petra Bach Titles: Mary Hogg | Alison Lohman as Cam Clarke as Susan Davis as Edward James Olmos as Linda Gary as Patrick Stewart as Russell Johnson as Shia LaBeouf as Uma Thurman as Alvy Moore as Ashley Rose Orr as B.J. Ward as Bettina Bush as Bridget Hoffman as Chris Sarandon as Emily Bauer as Frank Welker as James Arnold Taylor as Jeff Winkless as Jeff Glen Bennett as Jodi Benson as Ken Sansom as Linda Gary as Mark Hamill as Mona Marshall as Tony Jay as Tress MacNeille as Aimee Roldan Ashley Edner Daamen Krall David McCharen Doris Hess Ginny Taylor Grace Rolek Jordan Orr Marilyn Schreffler Molly Keck Paul Butcher Peter Cullen Ross Simanteris | |||
ADR Production: Showmen, Inc. (Warriors of the Wind) Broadcaster: Cartoon Network Special Broadcasting Service Australia (Free-To-Air TV) Turner Classic Movies Digital Film Recording: Walt Disney Feature Animation Film and Digital Department Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment (Cancelled) GKIDS Madman Entertainment (Australia) Optimum Releasing (UK) Shout! Factory (2017) Licensed by: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney GKIDS (2017) New World Pictures (Warriors of the Wind) Negative Cutting: Buena Vista Negative Cutting Prints: Technicolor Producer: Manson International (Warriors of the Wind) Recording Studio: Buena Vista Sound Services Titles: Buena Vista Imaging | ||||
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Adaptation: Philippe Videcoq (new dub) | Adeline Chetail as Alexis Tomassian as Bernard-pierre Donnadieu as Boris Rehlinger as Boris Relhinger as Florine Orphelin as François Siener as Frédérique Cantrel as Hélène Otternaud as Jean-Louis Faure as Laurence Bréheret as Luc Boulad as Patrick Floersheim as Pierre Baton as Pierre Dourlens as Sylvain Corthay as Sylvain Courthay as Yves Barsacq as Zoé Requeplot as | |||
Broadcaster: Arte (from 15 april 2010) Canal + Cinema (from 25 April 2008) Ciné Cinema Famiz (from January 2009) Dubbing: Dubbing Brothers | ||||
ADR Director: Alfonso Laguna (Spain dub) Subtitle Translation: Zoraida Abramo (Netflix; Spain) | Ana Ángeles García as Belén Rodríguez as Meritxell Ribera as Rocío Robledo as Rossy Aguirre as Alfonso Laguna as Cristina Rubiales as Esteban Siller as Francesc Belda as Guillermo Romano as Isidro Olace as Jaume Villanueva as Jesús Alberto Pinillos as Juan Alfonso Carralero as Luis Porcar as Marc Gómez as Mariana Filio as Mercedes Cepeda as Moises Palacios as Rafael Alonso Naranjo Jr. as Rafael De Penagos as Ramon Canals as Rocío Gallegos as Thais Buforn as Tommy Salau as Toni Sevilla as Valle Acebrón as Ana Díaz Plana as Andrés Gutiérrez Coto as Antonio Medina as Fran Jimenez as Gabriel Chavez as Gerardo Reyero as Guadalupe Noel as Humberto Velez as Javier Franquelo as Jesus Barrero as Juan Alfonso Carralero as Julián Rodríguez as Luis Gaspar as Luis Marín as Magda Giner as Mar Nicolas as María Santander as Maria Rosa Guillén as Mariola Fustier as Pilar Gentil as Rafael Torres as Roger Vidal as Valle Acebrón as Alejandro Abdalah Edgar Wald Eduard Doncos Eduardo Fonseca Elena Palacios Enrique Garduza Eva Ordeig Fernando Serna Francesc Belda Héctor García Ignacio Campero Iris Lago Javier Moreno Jordi Pineda Jorge Varela Juan Alfonso Carralero Marcos Patiño María Romeu Mario Fernández Miriam Valencia Monica Estrada Rafael Alonso Sr. Roger Vidal Sara Polo Sara Saavedra Selica Torcal Sergio Bonilla Sonia Vázquez Teo Muñoz Víctor Martínez | |||
Broadcaster: 3xl (Televisió de Catalunya) Canal CinemaPlus (Latin America) Canal MAX (Latin America) Canal UCR (subtitled) Canal+ Acción (Spain) Canal+ DCine (Spain) Canal+ Xtra (Spain) Cinema + (Colombia) HBO (Latin America) HBO Latin America I-Sat (Latin America) Pakapaka Señal Colombia (Colombia) Distributor: Albatros Vídeo (Spain; USA version) Babilla Ciné (Colombia | Theatrical; DVD and Blu-ray) Dubbing Studio: Audiomaster 3000 (Mexican original dub) Soundtrack (Catalan dub) Soundub (Spain dub) Zima Entertainment (Mexican 2010 redub) Licensed by: Aurum Producciones (Spain; 2009) Vicitecor (Spain; USA version) Zima Entertainment (Mexico) Theatrical Releaser: Babilla Ciné (Colombia) Translation: Daruma Serveis Lingüístics (Catalan dub) | ||||
Script: Rodolfo Cappellini Translation: Elisa Nardoni Sato (ed. 2015) Dialogues: Gualtiero Cannarsi (ed. 2015) Dubbing Assistant: Antonella Bartolomei (ed. 2015) Dubbing Engineer: Fabio Benedetti (ed. 2015) Mixing: Fabio Tosti (ed. 2015) | Letizia Ciampa as Paola Del Bosco as Alessio De Filippis as Angelo Nicotra as Gioacchino Maniscalco as Laura Romano as Bruno Alessandro as David Chevalier as Domenico Crescentini as Elena Liberati as Emidio La Vella as Eva Padoan as Franca Lumachi as Gerolamo Alchieri as Gianluca Solombrino as Gilberta Crispino as Laura Cosenza as Luca Ernesto Mellina as Luciano De Ambrosis as Mimmo Palmara as Paolo Marchese as Piero Leri as Pino Insegno as Silvio Anselmo as Simone Mori as Tatiana Dessi as Valeria Vidali as Vittoria Bartolomei as Alessandro Ballico Alessandro Budroni Alessandro Pala Antonio Angrisano Cristina Piras Dodo Versino Fabiola Bittarello Francesco Capanna Francesco Sechi Gianluca Machelli Goffredo Matassi Guido Sagliocca Luciano Turi Luigi Scribani Maria Grazia Dominici Massimo Aresu Raffaele Carpentieri Sacha De Toni Serena Sigismondo Stefano Thermes | |||
Broadcaster: Rai 1 Distributor: Lucky Red (ed. 2015) Internet Streaming: Mediaset Infinity Sound: SEFIT-CDC (ed. 2015) | ||||
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Distributor: Universum-Films Dubbing: FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH (2nd dub 2004) | ||||
Subtitle Translation: Femke Montagne (Netflix) | (none) | |||
Internet Streaming: Netflix | ||||
Translation: Mette Holm (Subtitles) | (none) | |||
Licensed by: Camera Film | ||||
(none) | Distributor: Monolith Films Internet Streaming: Netflix | |||
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(none) | Internet Streaming: Netflix (Brazil) | |||
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(none) | Distributor: Deltamac Co., Ltd. | |||
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(none) | Licensed by: Intercontinental Video Limited | |||
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