Film

Warriors of the Wind

Name: Warriors of the Wind
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
Released: 1984
Cast: Sumi Shimamoto, Ichiro Nagai, Gorō Naya, Yoji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara

This is the notorious 1985 export cut of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — trimmed by roughly twenty minutes, retitled, and sold as a scrappy monster-fighting adventure rather than the ecological parable it actually is. The visuals still soar and the momentum still works, but the ambiguity, the philosophy, and much of the world-building were left on the cutting-room floor. Watch it as a curiosity and as the reason Miyazaki later demanded uncut releases of everything.

TMDb rating

7.9

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