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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind | 
 enlarge | Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda, Gorô Naya, Ichirô Nagai
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  248 reviews
Sales Rank: 1150
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 116 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 02534400
ISBN: 0788824007
UPC: 786936175240
EAN: 9780788824005
ASIN: B0001XAPZ6
Theatrical Release Date: June 1985
Release Date: February 22, 2005
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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
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NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND
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 Awesome Show September 5, 2010
Viewer21
I watched this show a hundred times as a kid it's a great show. I cannot wait until my 4 year old is about 6 to see this for the first time. I has a great linear story line, an unlike a lot of Japanmation it is well dubbed.
 Read the Manga, Skip the Movie September 1, 2010
M. Blevins
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had always heard wonderful things about this movie, but I decided to read the manga first. The manga is brilliant, violent, and complex- I highly recommend it. The movie, on the other hand... is not so great. They tried to cram four long graphic novels into one two-hour movie, and it really shows. The story is awkwardly compressed, and frankly a bit of a wreck. Despite the nice animation, I didn't enjoy it very much at all.
Mind you, I have no problem with book-to-film translations in general- I thought Lord of the Rings was wonderfully done. This movie just isn't very well written or translated to the screen, though. Frankly, Nausicaa would have worked much better as a one-season tv series.
So in short...
Film: 4/10
Manga: 9/10
 I wanted to like this Avatar precursor August 4, 2010
jjmmkk (Millbrook, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being a great admirer of the director's work I was greatly looking forward to viewing this early "epic masterpiece". Unfortunately - perhaps because it is apparently a condensed reworking of a TV series - I found it incoherent and extremely difficult to follow. Who was attacking who and why became extremely tedious. Powerful ecological concerns were evident and admirable, as were, as always in Miyazaki's work, great visual imaginative details and images. But it seemed endless and confusing despite my positive predisposition to want to like it. What is perhaps most interesting is the degree to which this film is obviously the source of inspiration for many of the ideas in James Cameron's even more disappointing Avatar. So many details were reworked in the latter that Cameron should have be embarrassed to have not credited Miyazaki's concepts.
Another Miyazaki masterpiece April 22, 2010
Jonathan Levine (Long Island, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hayao Miyazaki, the master filmmaker from the Academy Award-winning, "Spirited Away", really outdid himself in his first true feature length film with Studio Ghibli. Nausicaa is filled with heart, hope, and gives an unprecedented perspective on the natural world and the humanitarian role with it. I can watch this movie over and over again and still see it for the first time. It is exciting and suspenseful; with scenery hand-painted so beautifully that no computer-animated film could match. I would recommend this movie to everyone, both young and small.
 Tasteless cartoon porn anyone? April 6, 2010
New Jersey 1 (US)
1 out of 44 found this review helpful
I turned this movie off after watching the second 'up the skirt' shot of a young girl flying around on a hang-glider without any underwear on. If you liked My Neighbor Totoro, you will be shocked that this is the same director.
Do not buy! You've been warned.
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