Kaze no tani no Naushika


Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 風の谷のナウシカ. This film simply blew me away. This is only the 3rd Miyazaki film I've watched. The first 2 are Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away. I was a bit disappointed with Spirited Away as I had high expectations of it. Whereas for this show, I do not have very high expectations but man, it is splendid! And it's supposedly a 1984 production but the quality does not defer much from anime produced today. The best of Miyazaki I've seen so far.
Do not confuse this with Warriors of the Wind. Warriors of the Wind is a butchered version of this film. Taken from the wiki --

A heavily edited and English-dubbed version of the film was shown on HBO and released on VHS by New World Pictures & Orion Pictures in the 1980s as Warriors of the Wind (Japanese: 風の戦士 or Kaze no Kishi, lit. "Warriors of Wind"). According to Nausicaa.net, the voice actors and actresses were not even informed of the film's plotline and more than 30 minutes of the movie were cut from the film because New World felt that "the parts were slow moving" [2]. As a result, much of the film's narrative meaning was lost; many of the environmentalist themes were purged as was the main subplot about the Ohmu, altered to turn them into aggressive enemies. Most of the characters were renamed (for example, Nausicaä became "Princess Zandra"). The cover for the VHS release featured a cadre of male characters, who are not part of the film, riding the resurrected God Warrior — including a still-living Warrior shown briefly in a flashback. It was released around the world under various different titles for example, in Germany, it is known as Sternkrieger (lit. "Star Warriors") during that time.
Most fans of Nausicaä, along with Miyazaki himself, dislike that version; Miyazaki suggested that people should put it "out of their minds." [3] Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki has asked fans to forget its existence, and has subsequently adopted a strict "no-edits" clause for future foreign releases of its films. (A common rumor tells of Miyazaki sending Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, overseeing the distribution for the Miramax release of Princess Mononoke, an authentic katana with a simple message: "No cuts"[2] when he heard that Weinstein would try to cut the film to make it "marketable.") An uncut and re-dubbed version of Nausicaä was released on DVD by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on February 22, 2005 for Region 1. This DVD also includes the Japanese audio track with English subtitles. Optimum Home Entertainment released the film in Region 2, and the Region 4 DVD is distributed by Madman Entertainment. The 2005 DVD version made it around the world uncut.

Now I have to wait for mr nky to pass me my Princess Mononoke for my next dose of Miyazaki.