Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
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- Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind // Nausicaa.net
- A Nausicaa Nocturne
- AniWorld: Nausicaa
- Ever forward, my darling wind. | Nausicaä
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Multimedia Links
- Kaze no Tani no Naushika // Manga // Nausicaa.net
- Ghibli Films of the 80s > Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
- Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (1984)
- EX: Review - Manga - Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
- Anime Academy - Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
- T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews: Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
- Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: Online Ghibli
- Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind - AnimeLink
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - kaze no tani no naushika
- Nausicaa
- Anime Colony: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo on January 5, 1941. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible ability to draw, and the seemingly-endless stream of movie ideas he proposed.
In 1971, he moved to A Pro with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, where he was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. In 1978, he directed his first TV series, Conan, The Boy in Future, then moved to Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first movie, the classic Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro.
In 1984, he released Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, based on the manga (comic) of the same title he had started two years before. The success of the film led to the establishment of a new animation studio, Studio Ghibli, at which Miyazaki has since directed, written, and produced many other films with Takahata. All of these films enjoyed critical and box office successes. In particular, Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke received the Japan Academy Award for Best Film and was the highest-grossing (about US$150 million) domestic film in Japan's history until it was taken over by another Miyazaki work, Spirited Away.
In addition to animation, Miyazaki also draws manga. His major work was the Nausicaä manga, an epic tale he worked on intermittently from 1982 to 1994 while he was busy making animated films. Another manga, Hikoutei Jidai, was later evolved into his 1992 film Porco Rosso.