It is fascinating partly because its roots in style and action are unexpected for a western viewer. As a genre I would classify it as soft (no attempt at scientific correctness) sci-fi rather than fantasy, though some might think it more a work of fantasy. The story works for children of all ages (mine both first saw this before they were 6, and have memorized it long since), and combined with the wonderful visuals it is a treat for adults too. Even though it is very stylized (no photorealism here), you immediately get the feeling of the world and the characters. It has the feel of the original comic books, but plays out wonderfully on the screen - you don't need to know the comics. The pace is swashbuckling - if this were a book, it would be one you could not stop reading. When our heroine's valley home is attacked by raiders, she embarks on an adventure against them that will lead her, and some unlikely allies found along the way, to an eventual confrontation combining warring armies of bandits, ancient machines of infernal destruction, and the implacable, mysterious, threatening beasts which roam the badlands.
But it is also a world of enormous dangers, including airborne bandits and the strange, mutated creatures that have evolved to control the barren and scarred earth. And yet this is a world that feels very organic, not geometric, with a cast of characters drawn in a unique cross between hobo, samurai, and pirate - totally blending in to an imaginary post apocalyptic world where humans scratch out a precarious life in villages hidden in the few green valleys left in a world of desert, where the only remaining resources are wind, sunlight, and humans. There are fantastic aerial sequences like the jet-glider evading the flying snakes, which (this predates computed 3D, and aerial sequences are present in most of his work) are just a tour-de-force of imagination and geometry.
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND SUB INDO FULL
In this early full length film he really got to spread his wings.
By 1984 Miyazake was already well known in Japan for his anime work in film, TV, and for the comic strip that this film was based upon. This was the film which introduced me (and many others in the 1980s) to Miyazake, and even in the form of a poor quality VHS on an ordinary TV, it was amazing.
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