Kaze no tani no Naushika [videorecording] = Nausicaä of the valley of the wind / Tokuma Shoten and Hakuhodo present ; a Top Craft production ; Walt Disney home Entertainment presents ; a Studio Ghibli film ; original story and screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki ; producer Isao Takahata ; director, Hayao Miyazaki.
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FilmPublisher number: 25344 | Walt Disney Home EntertainmentLanguage: Japanese, English Summary language: English Publication details: [United States] : Walt Disney Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2005.Description: 2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - Nausicaä of the valley of the wind
- Music ; Joe Hisaishi ; producer ; Isao Takahata.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | ANIME Nausicaa | Available | 33111005856840 | ||||
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Adult DVD
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Northport Library | DVD | ANIME Nausicaa | Available | 33111008296739 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This impressive work from acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki represents a significant departure from traditional anime. Foregoing the gritty storylines, extreme violence, and adult content found throughout many anime, Miyazaki's works borrow as much from fairy tales as they do from science fiction. Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind is no exception. Centuries after war has devastated the earth, Princess Nausicaa leads the people of the Valley of the Wind. Feuding clans fight with planes and tanks as well as swords in a world that is both primitive and futuristic. In addition to her people's conflicts with other factions, Nausicaa must also contend with the insects of the jungle including the Ohmu, a race of giant, intelligent bugs that poisons the surrounding atmosphere - and is spreading rapidly. The setting of this 1984 animation owes much to the post-apocalypse genre spawned by Mad Max and other films, and the political subplot is often compared to Frank Herbert's Dune. However, the heroine here has more in common with the female protagonists of the Disney musicals such as Pocohantas and Mulan; Nausicaa is more concerned with harmony and communication than with conquest and revenge. Sympathetic to the Ohmu, she learns she must approach them with understanding to achieve peace and restore the dying world. This film is beautifully animated and written, and the moral to this ecological fable is difficult to miss. The film was dubbed into English in the mid-2000s, hence the presence of such actors as Shia LeBoeuf, who wasn't born yet when the film was originally made. ~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, Rovi
Based on the serial graphic novel.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.
Special features: disc 1: Behind the microphone with voice talent from the film: Alison Lohman, Uma Thurman, Patrick Stewart and Edward James Olmos; original Japanese trailers; The birth of Studio Ghibli featurette (28 min.). disc 2: complete storyboards.
Disc 1. Feature film -- Disc 2. Bonus features.
Music ; Joe Hisaishi ; producer ; Isao Takahata.
English voices: Uma Thurman, Patrick Stewart, Alison Lohman, Edward James Olmos.
Nausicaä is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crashes nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaä and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Set 1,000 years after a global war that nearly destroyed all life on Earth.
DVD, region 1; Dolby digital THX.
Dialogue in English with optional original sound track in Japanese with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.