![]() ![]() ![]() Nausicaä is ranked as one of the 50 greatest science fiction films by the Database. The movie has environmentalist undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984. ![]() Miyazaki was also strongly inspired by French comic artist Jean Giraud's Arzach (1975), as seen in the documentary, Ghibli: The Miyazaki Temple. The story itself was inspired by the 1971 comic Rowlf by American cartoonist Richard Corben, while the name Nausicaä was derived from the Greek epic Odysseus. It is based on Miyazaki's manga of the same name, first serialized on Animage magazine on February 4, 1982, and completed in March 1994. It was screened alongside two compilation movies for Sherlock Hound, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and Treasure Under the Sea. Isao Takahata produced the film for publisher Tokuma Shoten and advertising agency Hakuhodo, with TopCraft animating. ¥742 million (rentals) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is an animated post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, that premiered March 11, 1984. ![]()
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