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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaa of the Valley of the WindDirector: 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: 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,742

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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5 out of 5 stars 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.


2 out of 5 stars 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



3 out of 5 stars 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.


5 out of 5 stars 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.


1 out of 5 stars 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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