film and architecture section: Studio Ghibli Imaginary architecture: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki, architecture and film appreciation

category: Architecture and Film, Imaginary architectures of studio Ghibli

film index: 65 (Ghibli index 03)

relationship with architecture:

imaginary spatial quality of a distant world, landscape and architecture. instigates 3d understanding of a space. analytical.

film: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika)

director: Hayao Miyazaki

writers: Hayao Miyazaki

production: Japan, Studioin Ghibli (originally Topcraft)

release: March 4, 1984

playtime: 116 min

visual: colour

Language: Japanese, English

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Genre: animation

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is a 1984 post-apocalyptic Japanese animated film, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga of the same name. The film has environmentalist undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984. While created before Studio Ghibli was founded, the film is considered to be the beginning of the studio, and is often included as part of the Studio's works.

In the far future, a thousand years after a nuclear war left the Earth as a nuclear holocaust. The Valley of the Wind, a small kingdom ruled by King Jil struggles for survival as the community tries to defend the Valley from gigantic Ohm creatures and toxic plants that live beyond the Valley in the Sea of Decay, whilst Jil's daughter and heiress to the throne, Princess Nausicaa tries to understand and feels it is wrong to destroy the toxic jungle. The Valley is attacked by the Tolmekian people who plan to destroy the Sea of Decay by using the greatest warriors that started the holocaust. After Nausicaa is taken prisoner, Nausicca escapes and goes beneath the Sea of Decay where she discovers the toxic plants are not poisoning the air and are purifying the world by draining the air of radiation and toxins. With everything at stake, Nausicaa unites with the Ohms and set out to the Valley and foil the Tolmekians plan of unleashing the Great Warrior which will start another holocaust.

imdb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/
wikpedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_%28film%29

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