Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (translated: Nausicaä of the Valley of the wind) (Japanese Kanji: 風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no tani no Naushika Romaji:) is a Japanese animation film from 1984. The film is known as the start of the career of Director Hayao Miyazaki, who by the proceeds of Nausicaa had enough money toStudio Ghibli in 1985 to set up his famous. Despite that the film was made outside of Studio Ghibli to Nausicaa is nowadays included in the Ghibli catalog, with its logo.

The film follows Princess Nausicaä, a pacifist resident of the Wind Valley, in a post-apocalyptic world where they try to prevent a war between different countries and if only to realize that the huge insects, the Ohmu, which inhabit the world, not malignant. In fact, the movie is an animated version of some chapters of Miyazaki'sNausicaamanga series, which ran from 1982 to 1994 and a much more complicated plot had (at least with the same characters). So it is one of few films without Miyazaki's literary inspiration except his own.

The film appeared in Europe In the 1980s on VHS, but in a violently changed version that the message of the original film distorted; Warriors of the Wind. By this version now also forbade foreign distributors Miyazaki but to lay a finger on his films, making them in all countries are unchanged. The (original) version of Nausicaa is Disneynow on DVD and Blu-Ray released.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film takes place 1,000 years after the "seven days of fire", an event in which human civilization and most ecosystems were destroyed. The last living people now live in separate settlements that are separated by the so-called Sea of decay (腐海, fukai). This sea of destruction is a dense jungle where among other giant insects live. Everything in that jungle is toxic to people, even the air.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 English version
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

The protagonist of the story is Nausicaä, the charismatic young Princess of the Valley of the Wind. Although she is a strong fighter, keeps them not by fighting. She has the gift to communicate with the huge insects, and has a great empathy across from both humans and animals. She is taught by the Wanderer Yupa. Nausicaä explores the sea of decay to regularly to carry out scientific research in the hope to discover the source of the poison. She uses an advanced glider to the jungle to observe from the air.

One day sees Nausicaä a airship crash. On board they find a girl of her age, that the Princess of the Kingdom Pejite turns out to be. The Princess survives the accident, but can just about say that the ship's cargo must be destroyed. The cargo turns out to be a kyoshinheiembryo-, one of the great biological weapons which were employed during the old war. This embryo soon turns to be unearthed by Pejite, but then stolen by the stronger State of Pejite, along. The following day the Tolmekianen, guided by their Princess Kushana, the Valley to the embryo retrieval. Kushana claims with the God-warrior who from the embryo will grow to want to destroy the sea of destruction so as to allow contact between the human settlements again, despite warning of an old woman called Obaba that this only will lead to more misery.

Kushana attempts to return to Pejite, along with Nausicaä and several others as hostages. Prior to their departure, Nausicaä reveals to Yupa a hidden garden of jungle plants that are not poisonous as they grow in sand and water from a deep well. According to her is the jungle toxic because of the toxic land where the plants grow. The airship in which the hostages are transported, is attacked by a Pejitaans combat ship, and both ships must make an emergency landing in the sea of decay. Nausicaä rescues the pilot of the Pejitaanse ship there. The pilot turns out to be Asbel, the twin brother of the Princess who met earlier Nausicaä.Together they try to leave the jungle, but find a hidden world under the sea of decay, where the plants are not toxic there all the poison from the soil is purified by the plants in the sea.

Nausicaä and Asbel return to Pejite, where just a battle going on. The Pejite people has the insects from the jungle to the city lured to settle accounts with the Tolmekiaanse troops. In the battle to win the confidence of the Nausicaä know insects. Try the Tolmekianen the God-Warrior, but he too early there is awakened, it dies. Nausicaä and insects then succeed in to end the war. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="359" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nausicaä was produced with artists specifically for this film were hired, and paid per frame.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-birth_2-0" len="201" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  A notable animator was Hideaki Anno, who later produced Neon Genesis Evangelion. Anno had the command to draw the attack scene of the God Warrior, which according to Toshio Suzuki formed a high point in the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-birth_2-1" len="201" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2] ===English version<span class="mw-editsection" len="369" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film also got an English version, released by New World Pictures. This version carried the title Warriors of the Wind, and was heavily modified compared to the Japanese version. According to Nausicaa.net, the English voice actors knew nothing about the plot of the movie, and was more than 30 minutes of footage cut from the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FAQ_3-0" len="199" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]. as a result, many of the deeper meanings of the film lost.
 * Sumi Shimamoto (Nausicaä)
 * Mahito Tsujimura (Jihl)
 * Hisako Kyōda (Ou-Baba)
 * Gorō Naya (Yupa)
 * Yoshiko Sakakibara (Kushana)
 * Yōji Matsuda (Asbel)
 * Miina Tominaga (Rastel)
 * Ichiro Nagai (Mito)
 * Rihoko Yoshida (Teto)
 * Kōhei Miyauchi (Goru)
 * Jōji Yanami (Gikkuri)
 * Minoru Yada (Hassan)

<p lang="en" len="91" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many fans of Nausicaä, Miyazaki himself, expressed their dissatisfaction with equally as this version. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="371" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="212" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1985 won three prizes:


 * The prize for best short film at the Fanta festival
 * The Readers ' Choice Award for best film at the Kinema Junpo Awards
 * The Ofuji Noburo Award