Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1984
Running Times: 84 mins (UK / USA)     116 mins (Japan)
Format: colour
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Hakuhodo Incorporated / Studio Ghibli / Tokuma Shoten
Executive Producers: Tohru Hara, Michio Kondô, Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Producer: Isao Takahata
Planners: Nausicaa Production Committee, Atsushi Okumoto, Hideo Ogata, Hiroshi Morie, Tatsumi Yamashita

SCRIPT
Script / Comic: Hayao Miyazaki

DIRECTION
Director: Hayao Miyazaki

ANIMATION
Animation Director: Kazuo Komatsubara
Animators: Ai Kagawa, Hideaki Anno, Junko Ikeda, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Kitarou Takasaka, Noboru Takano, Osamu Nabeshima, Shôji Tomiyama, Shuichi Obara, Shunji Saida, Tadakatsu Yoshida, Tadashi Fukuda, Takanori Hayashi, Takashi Nakamura, Takashi Watanabe, Tsukasa Tannai, Yôichi Kotabe, Yoshinori Kanada, Yoshiyuki Hane
Assistant Animators: Masahiro Yoshida, Tomihiko Okubo
Background Artists: Kazuhiro Kinoshita, Kuniko Nishimura, Kuzuo Ebisawa, Masaki Yoshizaki, Toshio Nozaki
Inbetween Artists: Daijirô Sakamoto, Junko Yano, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Kazuhisa Nagai, Kiyoko Saitô, Kôji Iwai, Mahiro Maeda, Noriko Kondô, Sachie Takahashi, Sachiko Tada, Taidô Hanafusa, Taira Sameki, Takayo Mizutani, Umanosuke Iida, Yasushi Yazawa, Yoshiko Nakamura, Yoshiko Sasaki, Yukari Watanabe, Yumiko Taguchi
Character Designer: Kazuo Komatsubara
Colour Supervisors: Fukuo Suzuki, Michiyo Yasuda

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Hideshi Kyonen

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Naoki Kaneko, Tomoko Kida, Shôji Saka

MUSIC
Music: Joe Hisaishi

SOUND
Sound Director: Shigeharu Shiba
Sound Effects Editor: Kazutoshi Satou

DESIGN
Art Director: Mitsuyoshi Nakamura

VOICES
Sumi Shimamoto (Nausicaä)
Mahito Tsujimura (Jihl)
Hisako Kyôda (Oh-Baba)
Gorô Naya (Yupa)
Ichirô Nagai (Mito)
Kôhei Miyauchi (Goru)
Jôji Yanami (Gikkuri)
Minoru Yada (Niga)
Rihoko Yoshida (Teto / girl C)
Masako Sugaya (girl A)
Takako Sasuga (girl B)
Chika Sakamoto (boy A)
Tarako (boy B)
Yôji Matsuda (Asbel)
Mîna Tominaga (Rastel)
Mugihito (Mayor of Pejite)
Akiko Tsuboi (Rastel's mother)
Yoshiko Sakakibara (Kushana)
Iemasa Kayumi (Kurotowa)
Tetsuo Mizutori (Commando)
Takeki Nakamura, Bin Shimada (Pejite citizens)
Takako Ôta (Pejite girl)
Shinji Nomura, Yoshitada Ôtsuka (Torumekia soldiers)
Hisako Ayuhara (boy)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES (2004 DISNEY DUB)
Alison Lohman (Nausicaa)
Emily Bauer (Princess Lastelle)
Cam Clarke (Prince Milo)
Mark Hamill (Mayor of Pejite)
Shia LaBeouf (Asbel)
Chris Sarandon (Kurotawa)
Patrick Stewart (Lord Yupa)
Uma Thurman (Kushana)

PLOT SUMMARY

In the distant future, the remnants of Mankind that have survived the cataclysmic "Seven Days of Fire" live in isolated pockets surrounded by the deadly Tox Jungle. In the Valley of the Wind, Princess Nausicaa tries to understand and come to terms with the Jungle and its new forms of life.

AVAILABILITY

Germany
Theatrical Distributors: Universum Film A.G.

Japan
Theatrical Distributors: Toei Inc
DVD Distributors: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

USA
Theatrical Distributors: New World Pictures (1986)
Video Distributors: Walt Disney Home Video
DVD Distributors: Buena Vista Home Video

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: PG

Canada
Rating: PG

Poland
Rating: banned

UK
Rating: U

USA
Rating: PG (for violence)

West Germany
Rating: 12

AWARDS

1984
Kinema Junpo Awards, Japan
Readers' Choice Award: Best Film (Hayao Miyazaki) - winner

Mainichi Film Concours, Japan
Ofuji Noburo Award (Hayao Miyazaki) - winner

1985
Fantafestival, Italy
Best Short Film (Hayao Miyazaki) - winner

TIMELINE

1983
May
31: Japan - production begins

1984
March
6: Japan - production ends
11: Japan - theatrical release

April
15: USA - theatrical release

2000
December
30: South Korea - theatrical release

2003
September
21: South Korea - shown at the Megabox Japan Film Festival

2004
July
8: Australia - shown at the Sydney Miyazaki Film Festival

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Guerreros del viento - Spanish title
Kaze no tani no Nausicaa
Nausicaä
Nausicaä de la vallée du vent - French title
Nausicaä della valle del vento - Italian title
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds - US title
Sternen-Krieger - West German video title
Vindens krigare - Swedish title
Warriors of the Wind - UK / US title

KEYWORDS

animation, anime, the environment, flying, the future, giant insects, gliders, insects, messiahs, monsters, mutations, pollution, post-apocalypse, prophecies, resurrection, steampunk, war

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008