Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa, Warriors of the Wind Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ English: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind German: Nausicaä aus dem Tal der Winde Spanish: Nausicaä del Valle del Viento French: Nausicaä de la Vallée du Vent More titles InformationType: Movie Episodes: 1 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Mar 11, 1984 Producers: Omnibus Promotion Licensors: Disney Platform Distribution, GKIDS Studios: Topcraft Source: Manga Genres: Adventure, Award Winning, Fantasy Duration: 1 hr. 57 min. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 8.351 (scored by 242,977 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #2352 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #629 Members: 388,352 Favorites: 5,503 ResourcesStreaming PlatformsMay be unavailable in your region. |
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Jun 18, 2009 innerchihiro Recommended Okay, so this is my first review, and my second favorite anime. I'm a Miyazaki fanatic, so take that into account if you must. BACKGROUND: The most important thing to know when watching this is that this anime is from 1984 (ironic, right?) and that this is Miyazaki Hayao's second time directing (the first being Lupin III The Castle of Cagliostro, arguably the best Lupin film ever created.) Miyazaki and his producer Suzuki Toshio first met up because Suzuki, the editor of the magazine Animage, wanted some comments from Miyazaki about Lupin and Miyazaki basically told him to stop bothering him. After a while, however, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 23, 2015 literaturenerd Recommended Overview: Nausicaa came out in 1984 and was the 2nd movie ever directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was also one of only 2 Miyazaki movies that was based on one of his original manga. The other was "The Wind Rises" in 2013. Nausicaa is an unusual movie, so it often gets overlooked and it is among the most underrated Miyazaki movies here in the US. A large part of the problem was an absolutely BUTCHERED port of the movie called "Warriors of the Wind" released by Disney in the 1980s. Nausicaa was intended to teach morals to a younger audience, but was NOT purely a children's ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 17, 2009 Venneh Recommended TITLE: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind MANGA, ANIME: Nausicaa was originally a manga with story and art done by Hayao Miyazaki (Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away) that, ironically enough, was only created so that the movie could eventually be made, as Toshio Suzuki, the producer, couldn't get money for a film that wasn't based on a manga. It was serialized in Animage magazine from February of 1982 to March of 1994, and was licensed Stateside by Viz Media, and consists of a total of seven collected volumes. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was created before Studio Ghibli actually existed and distributed by ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 8, 2019 Optigisa Recommended Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is a 1984 Japanese Animated movie, and it marks the very beginning of one of the most beloved film studios of all time, Studio Ghibli. The studio was not founded up until 1985, one year after the release of Nausicaa, with the studio's first official production being Castle in the Sky, which hit the theaters in 1986. Regardless, Nausicaa is still often considered to be the first Ghibli film by many, and for good reasons. If you don't know the name Ghibli, then I do hope some of it's productions ring a bell to you. Studio Ghibli created ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 13, 2008 Phill-z Recommended When I talk about Miyazaki, I usually speak about how he tends to just narrowly miss the mark of making an amazing film. Nausicaa is a perfect example of how Miyazaki narrowly misses the mark of creating a truly magnificent film. However, Nausicaa shows perfectly Miyazaki's attitudes towards living with nature instead of trying to exploit it. Story: The story isn't interesting, well, the basic storyline isn't all that much to really care about. There are a bunch of Deus ex Machina (god from the machine) that just really, really bugged me. Nausicaa herself is a basic Miyazaki protagonist, she doesn't ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 4, 2008 ardele7 Recommended This is definitely the best you can get in two hours. Story: it does not follow the dreamy and surreal sequencing of the newer Ghibli films; after watching this and comparing it with other Ghibli films it was almost as if Miyazaki had written everything he wanted to say in this earlier film. If you are interested in Miyazaki's themes you will appreciate everything tied up together and presented beautifully (and logically) for you. Art: amazing depictions of nature; made horrendous creatures look beautiful "naturally" even though they are made up. The ending contain the "original" warm fuzzy scenery that inspires those like haibane renmei. ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 17, 2019 Assthete Mixed Feelings This movie is so embryonic, which is to be expected given it only adapts a fraction of Miyazaki's iconic masterpiece. Basically he had to conclude threads whose nature is far too mysterious to be properly developed in mere two hours. It also meant dumbing down the message to environmentalism for children and the storytelling to boring fatalism based on muh prophecy. It's a shame considering how much talent is on display here. The melting God Warrior is Anno's finest sakuga to date rightfully propelling his career forward. Joe Hisaishi has the audience earwormed in a spectacle of patient melodic progression followed by exploding crescendos. Nausicaa ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 13, 2018 kerberos242 Mixed Feelings Without a doubt, the art is the reason to watch this one. It takes place in a beautiful fantasy world 1,000 years after the apocalypse. Some shots of the landscapes feel truly magical, and the creature, vehicle, and aircraft designs are excellent. With regard to the story, there's not much. The central message is NATURE = GOOD, TECHNOLOGY = WAR = BAD, delivered with all the subtlety of a plummeting anvil. The bad people wear armor, drive tanks and planes, and try to fight off the dangerous creatures when threatened by them. The good people are helpless innocents who listen to what nature-loving Princess Nausicaa tells ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 14, 2020 unimportantuser Recommended Nausicaa of the Valley of the wind is one of those movies. I’m talking a movie so famous & renowned that practically everyone has seen, or at least heard of this movie. I won’t waste time talking about the impact it left, how it basically kick-started Hayao Miyazaki’s career, & all that jazz, I’m just gonna get straight into it. Story:10/10 The story of Nausicaa follows our titular protagonist on a journey to try & save The valley of the wind. We first meet Nausicaa going to the sea of decay to try & recover an ohm shell. We then are taken to the valley of the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 1, 2014 ktulu007 Recommended In many ways, Nausicaa was Studio Ghibli's prototype film. It introduced many factors that would become staples for the studio, the pro-environmentalist message, the strong female protagonist, the highly critical view of violence and, of course, the gorgeous artwork. Nausicaa was produced by Topcraft before the Studio went bankrupt, got bought by Miyazaki and Takahata and became Studio Ghibli. Since Nausicaa was the film to establish the Ghibli formula, and since most of the creative team behind it, including the writer, Miyazaki, went on to found Studio Ghibli, many people count it as the Studio's first work. Let's take a look and see how well ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 15, 2010 360ken Recommended *You can read what it's about in the synopsis* Story-10 Art-9 Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 24, 2014 Mimiko_chan Recommended Nausicaa, I have a feeling that this review is going to be long… Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 11, 2010 kekekeKaj Recommended I first watched "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds" when I'd only watched a couple of films that are directed by Miyazaki. I was blown away at the time, and thought it was the best thing he's done. Now that I've seen a lot more of his films, I can conclude that... it still is one of the best things he's done. More dramatic, more intense than Miayazaki's normal work, "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds" is aimed an older audience. The prelude, with the wind blowing across the uninhabitable wastlands, is a memorable one, and the desolate scene captures the title perfectly (although ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 31, 2021 momentie Recommended A Dark Fairy-Tale of Themes, More Relevant Now Then Ever Before(LR); Nausicaä is a classic studio Ghibli story set in a post apocalyptic world that suffers from an ever encroaching toxic disaster. Like many Ghibli films it's riddled with sometimes simplistic but always wonderfully depicted themes and messages, alongside a fun and endearing cast of colorful characters and places for us to temporarily inhabit. Let's walk through the spoiler free segment first. Animation and Music - This almost goes without saying when discussing works by Ghibli but there is almost nothing to complain about in this regard, the art-style is the usual enchantingly picturesque trappings that go ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 13, 2024 DylansTrashTaste Recommended This is the first movie I watched during my Ghibli binge, and it did not disappoint! However, it seems that people either think this is one of Ghibli’s best works and that it changed the animation industry forever, or that the movie is a poorly written, preachy dumpster fire of a film with unlikable characters and a confusing plot. I don’t fully agree with either side though, and while I think this is a great film, there’s several flaws that I believe it possesses. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film that takes place 1,000 years after a great war that ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 25, 2020 homemcordial Mixed Feelings Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) is the adaptation of Miyazaki's homonymous manga, and one of his earliest films, it's entertaining for sure but i have a couple problems with it Miyazaki creates a world with it's own politics, history and lore. and none of them is has a decent explanation that we would otherwise get if we read the manga, many of his other films also avoid these explanations, but they were never necessary, unlike this one. the characters are ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 2, 2016 PuruRuru Mixed Feelings Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä comes up with a very interesting setting that doesn't get enough development. Instead the main character is thrown into a journey in which she fights for humanitarian and environmental goals. The morality behind this anime is quite heavy handed and the characters are really basic, making this a rather dull watch in modern times, although at the time the sheer novelty (for the average viewership) of the setting might have been enough. This movie ages poorly because of that. The animation in this quite good. It's a mix of a lot of hard work along with dated artwork (which is by no ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 24, 2008 RangFlash Recommended Miyazaki's first work he can 100% call his own, Nausicaa really set the standard for all-age anime cinema a notch up from Castle of Cagliostro. This anime goes down to be one of the most influential with its environmental message in a post-apocalyptic world. Unlike many anime before it, the cast of characters is huge, the plot complex, and the scope is epic, redefining what anime can do. There are small problems, some dealing with the dialogue. There is often needless dialogue where Nausicaa talks to herself, explaining things to the audience. Examples: "An Ohm!" Yes, Nausicaa. We know. We ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 18, 2015 BeebopJazzAttack Recommended I had the fortune of getting to see "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" on the big screen (for the first time ever!) in stark, 35mm film. It looked unbelievably beautiful, especially for a cartoon made in the 80's. Sure, it still had that 80's anime look to it and the soundtrack was totally 80's, but up there on the big screen, I don't know, it kinda took my breathe away. The story of "Valley of the Wind" is pretty much like all his stories, which is the films strongest feature. Miyazaki knows how to tell a story. He creates these worlds, that he ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 7, 2017 fredcourch Recommended A few years back, when someone would ask me what was my favorite movie, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was always the first one that came to mind. As time passed, my answer changed. Not because I didn’t think it was the best anymore, only because my memory failed me and I felt uncomfortable suggesting a movie that I didn’t remember. I began feeling doubtful after few friends (to which I recommended the movie) thought of it as nothing special. Is it really that great ? By fear of being disappointed in the movie, I avoided watching it again. Nearly five years later, ... Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
