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Exclusive review: Inu-Yasha:
Rumiko Takahashi's (Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku, Mermaid Tales) new hit TV series in Japan
  Rating: PG
  U.S. Distribution Rights: Disney
  Genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy


Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Movie)
Alternate Title: Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa

Description:    In the far future, man has destroyed the Earth in the "Seven Days of Fire". What's left are poisonous forests where the air can kill a person by getting into his/her lungs. These forests are infested by giant insects that protect it and each other fiercely. All that's left of humanity are nations that go through constant political turmoil— except for the peaceful Valley of Wind where a princess named Nausicaa tries to understand, rather than destroy the Toxic Jungle. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Overall Grade: 95% (A)

  Reviewer: Clyde Adams III
  Episodes reviewed: Movie; subtitled
Grade: 95% (A)
   Nausicaa depicts a larger-than-life heroine in an epic struggle in a post-apocalyptic world for the highest of stakes: the survival of humanity. It is an impressive, beautifully crafted, exciting, often exhilarating film, highly recommended. What could be more exhilarating than watching Nausicaa soar through the air on her one-woman motorized glider?

The heroine, Princess Nausicaa, is sympathetic and admirable. She is wise, brave, active, compassionate, and empathic, but not quite perfect and saintly; she attacks Torumekian soldiers in a rage after her father's murder.

Nausicaa has a very heavy burden on her young shoulders. She must try to save her nation, the Valley of the Wind, from being wiped out in the war between Torumekia and Pejite; also, she must prevent the Torumekians from trying to destroy the Toxic Forest, an action which (as Nausicaa alone realizes) would doom all humanity. She would give her life to accomplish these things, and it does seem unlikely she will survive.

The warfare between humanity and nature is one that director Hayao Miyazaki would return to in Princess Mononoke, and the Japanese trailers for Mononoke called it a successor to Nausicaa.



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