Really one of the best movies from studios Ghibli. I love the story and the music is great. Please not miss it :)
Product Details
| Catalog No. | VWDZ-8014 |
|---|---|
| JAN/ISBN | 4959241980144 |
| Product Type | DVD |
| TV Standard | NTSC |
| Number of Discs | 1 |
| Label/Distributor | Crown Tokuma |
| Color | Color |
|---|---|
| Running Time | 124minutes |
| Original Release Year | 1986 |
| Data Format | DVD Video |
| Encoding | MPEG-2 |
| Layers | single-sided/dual-layered |
| Aspect Ratio(s) | 16:9 LB Vista |
| Region | 2 |
| Subtitles | English Japanese |
| Audio Track |
English
Dolby Digital
Monaural
Japanese Dolby Digital 2ch Stereo |
Description
Hayao Miyazaki followed the success of his "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" with another astounding animated masterpiece whose story takes its cue from Laputa, the floating island-city described in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." The epic fantasy adventure revolves around Pazu, an orphaned boy and a girl named Sheeta who fell from the sky into the arms of Pazu. While fleeing from air-pirates, their adventures involve finding out about Sheeta's identity and the secret of her pendant made of a levitation stone crystal. The film has a wonderful retro-futuristic tone that also evokes Jules Verne's books, and delivers a subtle anti-war and ecological message in a typically Miyazaki non-preachy manner. Studio Ghibli was founded around the production of this film, which makes this film the de facto first official Ghibli feature. With loads of extras, including Hayao Miyzaki's storyboard (expected animated), and much more! The disc is pictured.
Special Feature / Bonus Track: animated storyboard, theatrical trailer(s), TV spot(s), teaser(s), some promo footage, textless intro & outro, & more
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Description in Japanese
天空の城ラピュタ / アニメ
ジブリ作品の中でも初期の名作との呼び声が高い「天空の城ラピュタ」が、待望のDVDで登場!! 孤児・パズーと、空から降って来た少女シータの「天空の城ラピュタ」をめぐる冒険ファンタジーは、何度見ても惹き込まれる壮大なストーリー。「ガリバー旅行記」の中に伝えられる空中の浮島ラピュタ帝国をモチーフに、子供たちが持つ憧れの空想世界を描き出す一方、兵器の驚異や自然との共生という現代的テーマをも盛り込んでおり、スタジオジブリの記念すべきオリジナル長編アニメーションの第一作となった。このDVDには本編と完全リンクした宮崎駿監督直筆の絵コンテをはじめとする映像特典が満載で、ジブリ作品コレクターやファンも満足、必見の内容!! ピクチャーディスク仕様。
絵コンテ映像、劇場予告編(tvスポット、特報、予告編、プロモーション映像)、ノンテロップOP&ED、その他
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Tracklisting
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LAPUTA:CASTLE IN THE SKY
天空の城ラピュタ
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LAPUTA:CASTLE IN THE SKY
天空の城ラピュタ
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Customer Reviews
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LAPUTA is indeed a beautiful film, and is one of my favorite Miyazaki movies of all time. However, I want to take to task the first review which says that the older dub of LAPUTA is better than Disney's; it's not. I heard a clip of this older dub, and I was completely disappointed--all the voice actors sounded bored and unlively, plus the dialogue is very choppy sounding. While it doesn't have the sometimes extraneous extra dialogue, I see nothing about it that surpasses the Disney dub in terms of quality or scripting. It was produced on the cheap by an independent dubbing studio, and the results are most obvious. Disney's dub isn't perfect, but it doesn't deserve the scathing criticisms from hardcore fans--the voices are better acted on the newer dub and the script sounds smoother. Plus, the new score by Joe Hisaishi gives the movie a fresh new spirit in a way that the original does not. If you wanna watch the movie in Japanese with better synched-up subtitles, then this DVD is good for that, but for the better dub, I recommend Disney's--it's better produced and more pleasant to listen to; and while it may not be more accurately adapted, it's far from unlistenable.
Made in 1986 is was the first movie created under the new label Ghibli. The character design is lovely, the voices nice, the story full of adventure elements and to no time boring. After all these years it is still one of the best movies which Japanese animation ever created. The story had influence on the later TV show The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no umi no Nadia). In Laputa a boy and a girl are looking for a legendary floating island called Laputa. A bunch of pirates and the secret police are on their track to get the mighty ancient technology and the treasures of the old castle. If such things are created: In whose hands they will be right?
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