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Product Description

Miyazaki's masterpiece features the voices of Alison Lohman, Patrick Stewart, Uma Thurman and Edward James Olmos.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1919 in DVD
• Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
• Released on: 2005-02-22
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Japanese
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: Japanese
• Dimensions: .40 pounds
• Running time: 117 minutes

Features

• From one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animation and the creator of the Academy Award(R)-winning SPIRITED AWAY (Best Animated Featured Film, 2002) comes Hayao Miyazaki's epic masterpiece NAUSICA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND. A thousand years after a global war, a seaside kingdom known as the Valley Of The Wind remains one of only a few areas still populated. Led by the coura

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Hayao Miyazaki gained widespread attention in Japan for his complex ecological manga series, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982), which he adapted for the screen two years later. One thousand years after a war devastated much of the Earth, humanity clings to existence at the fringes of a vast, polluted forest inhabited by monstrous insects. Only Nausicaä, the princess of the tiny realm of the Valley of the Wind, grasps the environmental significance of the forest. She sees beyond petty wars and national rivalries to the only viable future for the planet. In Nausicaä, Miyazaki began to explore elements he would develop more fully in his later films: daring, compassionate heroines; exciting flying sequences; colorful side characters; strong interpersonal relationships; and a call for an ecologically sustainable way of life. Nausicaä prefigures Sheeta in Castle in the Sky and Chihiro in Spirited Away, just as the rough and ready Asbel anticipates Pazu in Castle in the Sky and Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke. For years, Nausicaä was available in the United States only as the badly re-edited Warriors of the Wind. The new English dub from Disney presents the film in its entirety, with strong vocal performances by Uma Thurman, Patrick Stewart, Alison Lohman, and Edward James Olmos. (Rated PG: violence, frightening imagery) --Charles Solomon

DVD features
The extras include a choppy Japanese documentary on the creation of Studio Ghibli, with actors impersonating directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and producer Toshio Suzuki at various points in the studio's history, and a standard collection of mini-interviews with the voice actors. The most interesting feature is the set of Miyazaki's storyboards, coordinated to the soundtrack. --Charles Solomon