The film also inspired the Tokusatsu tribute short, Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo, directed by Hideaki Anno and released on July 10, 2012.Īt the time of its theatrical release, it was screened on 35mm film and the audio was in mono. In December 2019, the story was adapted into a Kabuki stage play by Shinbashi Enbujō. The movie won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1984. Its poster's advertising slogan is, 'The love of a girl called a miracle.' (少女の愛が奇跡を呼んだ). The film stars the voices of Sumi Shimamoto, Goro Naya, Yoji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara and Iemasa Kayumi. Joe Hisaishi composed the film's musical score. It is often included as part of the Studio's works, including the Studio Ghibli Collection DVDs and Blu-Rays. While created before Studio Ghibli was founded, the film is often considered to be the beginning of the studio because of the involvement of Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Toshio Suzuki, Hideaki Anno and Joe Hisaishi. Nausicaä is ranked as one of the 50 greatest science fiction films by the Database. The movie has environmentalist undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984. Miyazaki was also strongly inspired by French comic artist Jean Giraud's Arzach (1975), as seen in the documentary, Ghibli: The Miyazaki Temple. The story itself was inspired by the 1971 comic Rowlf by American cartoonist Richard Corben, while the name Nausicaä was derived from the Greek epic Odysseus.

It is based on Miyazaki's manga of the same name, first serialized on Animage magazine on February 4, 1982, and completed in March 1994.

It was screened alongside two compilation movies for Sherlock Hound, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and Treasure Under the Sea. Isao Takahata produced the film for publisher Tokuma Shoten and advertising agency Hakuhodo, with TopCraft animating. ¥742 million (rentals) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is an animated post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, that premiered March 11, 1984.

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