Line #18 Trivia/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind


1	* AllStarCast: In both languages, kind of.
2	** The Japanese dub has Creator/SumiShimamoto, Creator/GoroNaya, and Creator/IchiroNagai in lead roles. This movie was from before Miyazaki's decision to use on-camera {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s starting with ''Princess Mononoke''.
3	** As the English dub was produced by Disney, this is inevitable. Fortunately, they put together a pretty solid cast for this one – standouts include Creator/PatrickStewart as Yupa, Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos as Mito, Creator/UmaThurman as Kushana, Creator/MarkHamill as the Mayor of Pejite, and they even brought in well-known traditional voice actors – Creator/TressMacNeille plays three different women (most notably Obaba), [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]] is one of the old Valley men, Creator/JeffBennett as Gikkuri, Creator/FrankWelker plays Gol, [[CrossRegionalVoiceActing and]] Emily Bauer voices Lastelle; with Creator/JodiBenson as Lastelle's mother. With narration duties provided by Creator/TonyJay.
4	* BetterExportForYou: The Japanese Blu-ray release had heavy amounts of noise reduction and clipping on the Japanese audio track, resulting in DigitalDestruction. Most international Blu-ray releases would use this same audio track except for the 2011 US Disney Blu-ray release, which used an unfiltered version of the Japanese audio that has more analogue noise (natural for such a film) but sounds much crisper and natural. Unfortunately, the Disney Blu-ray would soon go [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes out-of-print]] [[ChannelHop to be replaced by]] Creator/{{GKIDS}}' Blu-ray release, which would use the same filtered audio track from the Japanese release.
5	* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/HayaoMiyazaki.
6	* BuryYourArt: The 1985 English dub, ''Warriors of the Wind'', has never been re-released since New World Media's rights to the film expired in 1995. The dub was loathed by director Creator/HayaoMiyazaki for its heavy edits, leading Creator/StudioGhibli (formed by ''Nausicaä'' alums in the wake of its Japanese success) to institute their famous "no cuts" policy for later English dubs of their works. Fittingly, Creator/{{Disney}} would put out a more faithful English dub of ''Nausicaä'' in 2005.
7	* CreatorBacklash: As per usual, Miyazaki is not proud of a lot of his work on this film/series (he scored the film version 65 out of 100). Much of the commentary accompanying various watercolour posters in the artbook are him saying how drawings "look[ed] wrong" or were too difficult to make or something else. The guy is known to be one of the most relentless self-critics in existence ''and'' has a well-deserved reputation for grouchiness, so this is just par for the course. At this point, most fans ignore him when he criticizes himself.
8	* CreatorKiller: An interesting case - while Creator/{{Topcraft}} would survive another year after the film's release, including co-producing [[Creator/TatsunokoProduction Tatsunoko's]] ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'' and animating ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'', most of the staff that formed the basis of the studio would split off into Ghibli, Creator/StudioGainax, and Creator/PacificAnimationCorporation not long after.
9	* {{Defictionalization}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/user/hachiyakazuhiko The Opensky Aircraft Project]], a group of amateur aviation enthusiasts in Japan who are attempting to create a working version of the Möwe. Ghibli apparently offered them official endorsement, but they declined because they didn't want Miyazaki and his crew to get in trouble if things went bad and somebody died during testing. As of July 31st 2016, they have flown a successful [[https://youtu.be/17elclJuXxQ test flight]] of it.
10	* DisownedAdaptation: Hayao Miyazaki was so dissatisfied with ''Warriors of the Wind'' that for more than a decade, only a few of his films were dubbed ''uncut and uncensored''. Creator/{{Disney}}, Miramax's then-parent company, would later become Studio Ghibli's exclusive distributor in 1996, and this was when the films really began to make a mark on North American markets, but even they had to agree to the terms that came as a result of this. Studio Ghibli was so serious about this that one of the producers mailed a ''katana'' to Miramax's Harvey Weinstein, along with a note reading [[{{Pun}} "NO CUTS"]] upon the agreement.
11	* DoingItForTheArt:
12	** Hayao Miyazaki only wrote the manga because his [[ExecutiveMeddling higher-ups]] thought that an animated film was likely to bomb if it wasn't adapted from another work. However, even after ''Nausicaä'' finished its theatrical run, Miyazaki continued to write the manga off-and-on for ten more years.
13	** In a different interview (seen on Disney's U.S. Bluray), Miyazaki says he created ''Nausicaä'' at Toshio Suzuki's request at a time when he wasn't getting work – though almost immediately after, he was hired as animation director for ''Anime/SherlockHound'' – and so he intentionally made a story that could not be easily adapted to animation... and then he was asked to do exactly that.
14	* DuelingMovies: With Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/Dune1984''. Both are films set in a DesertPunk vision of the distant future, with various giant insects/worms, a blend of medieval and futuristic styles, and a MessianicArchetype protagonist. In fact, Miyazaki himself stated that the original ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' book was an inspiration for the film and manga. Many audiences in Japan have compared the two films as ''Dune'' premiered just a few months after ''Nausicaä''. ''Nausicaä'' was a massive blockbuster success in Japan. ''Dune'' still performed decently and was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff more beloved by Japanese audiences than most other territories]], but even its Japanese success was not enough to save the film from being a BoxOfficeBomb. Ironically, the American [[CoversAlwaysLie cover art]] for the ''Warriors of the Wind'' version made it look like TheMockbuster to multiple different '70s and '80s blockbusters, among them ''Film/{{Dune\|1984}}'' and ''Franchise/StarWars''.
15	* HeyItsThatSound: Some of the roars for the various bug monsters featured throughout the film were recycled from ''Film/SpaceAmoeba''.
16	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: New World's rights to ''Nausicaä'' expired in 1995, so chances are that VHS copies of ''Warriors of the Wind'' will be considerably expensive to find. This is also intentional: Miyazaki considered ''Warriors'' a DisownedAdaptation of his work.
17	** Only the 2011 out-of-print [[BetterExportForYou US]] Disney Blu-ray release has an unfiltered version of the original Japanese audio track in HD, with other Blu-ray releases suffering from varying degrees of DigitalDestruction.
18	** Every Blu-ray release of the Disney dub has suffered through DigitalDestruction, including the US Disney Blu-ray. The best-sounding audio mix for the English dub is only available on the 2005 US Disney DVD, which has been long out-of-print.
19	* LifeImitatesArt: There really are fungi that can neutralize various forms of pollution such as nuclear fallout and plastic waste and scientists have expressed interest in the possibility of breeding and even genetically enhancing them to clean up the environment en masse in a process known as "mycoremediation". Given the growing awareness of how many of these pollutants people's bodies are saturated with, doing so may indeed have health consequences for the people the fungi try to "purify".
20	** More darkly, the accelerating destruction of Earth's environment since the end of the Cold War, combined with the surprising recovery of the environment in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, have shown the ethos behind the creation of the God Warriors to be terrifyingly prescient.
21	* SelfAdaptation: Miyazaki is both the manga's author and the film's director.
22	* TroubledProduction: The movie's making was a dire process. Topcraft was heavily understaffed and was forced to hire extra animators, among them a young Creator/HideakiAnno, who later revealed he had to sleep under his desk in the Topcraft offices because there was neither time nor money for regular lodging.
23	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
24	** The film was going to be produced by Creator/{{Daiei}} (of ''Film/{{Rashomon}}'' and ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' fame) as their first anime film, but Tokuma Shoten (Daiei's then-parent company and the eventual parent company of Creator/StudioGhibli) sent the film to Creator/{{Topcraft}} instead as they thought Daiei had little experience with making animation.
25	** After the movie was released, producer Suzuki and animator Anno proposed Miyazaki a sequel (or a spinoff, according to another version) centered on the Kushana wars, but Miyazaki rejected it, not liking the emphasis on violence. Producers still wanted to do a sequel for many years, so Miyazaki eventually conceded and entrusted the work to Anno in 2011, but the project entered DevelopmentHell and they eventually desisted. Around this time, however, Miyazaki and Anno did a short live action film, ''Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo'', featuring one of the God Warriors (whose animation had been done by Anno himself in ''Nausicaa'').
26	** Creator/NataliePortman was considered to voice Nausicaä in Disney's dub before Alison Lohman was cast.
27	** During Creator/StreamlinePictures' lifetime, they planned on doing an uncut redub of the film long before Creator/{{Disney}} did so. It couldn't go through due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal issues]] with [[Creator/RogerCorman New World Pictures]] owning the North American distribution rights at the time.
28	** Creator/MangaEntertainment also planned on rereleasing the film, but [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal issues]] with Creator/{{Disney}} prevented it from happening. And if Manga were to rerelease the film, they would legally only be able to rerelease the ''Warriors of the Wind'' ReCut, which they thought would not sell well.

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