---
title: 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Hayao Miyazaki'
released: '1984-03-11'
runtime_minutes: 117
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind-1984'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

1984 · PG · 117 min · Fantasy, Adventure · Japan

Original title: 風の谷のナウシカ
Part of: Studio Ghibli Feature Films

## Synopsis

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a 1984 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982 manga of the same name. It was produced by Topcraft and distributed by Toei Company. Joe Hisaishi, in his first collaboration with Miyazaki, composed the score. The film stars the voices of Sumi Shimamoto, Gorō Naya, Yōji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara, and Iemasa Kayumi. Set in a post-nuclear futuristic world, it tells the story of Nausicaä (Shimamoto), the pacifist teenage princess of the Valley of the Wind who becomes embroiled in a struggle with Tolmekia, an empire that attempts to use an ancient weapon to eradicate a jungle populated by oversized, mutant insects.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Hayao Miyazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/hayao-miyazaki)
- **Screenplay:** [Hayao Miyazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/hayao-miyazaki), [Kazunori Itō](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazunori-ito)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Joe Hisaishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-hisaishi)
- **Producer:** [Isao Takahata](https://cinepixo.com/people/isao-takahata)
- **Editor:** [Naoki Kaneko](https://cinepixo.com/people/naoki-kaneko), [Shoji Sakai](https://cinepixo.com/people/shoji-sakai)

## Cast

- [Yōji Matsuda](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoji-matsuda) as Asbel
- [Yoshiko Sakakibara](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshiko-sakakibara) as Kushana
- [Iemasa Kayumi](https://cinepixo.com/people/iemasa-kayumi) as Kurotowa
- [Ichirō Nagai](https://cinepixo.com/people/ichiro-nagai) as Mito
- [Takeki Nakamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/takeki-nakamura)
- [Chika Sakamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/chika-sakamoto)
- [Tetsuo Mizutori](https://cinepixo.com/people/tetsuo-mizutori)
- [Miina Tominaga](https://cinepixo.com/people/miina-tominaga) as Rastel
- [Akiko Tsuboi](https://cinepixo.com/people/akiko-tsuboi) as Rastel's mother
- [Kōhei Miyauchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kohei-miyauchi) as Goru
- [Mahito Tsujimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/mahito-tsujimura) as Jhil
- [Tarako](https://cinepixo.com/people/tarako)
- [Gorō Naya](https://cinepixo.com/people/goro-naya) as Yupa
- [Hisako Kyōda](https://cinepixo.com/people/hisako-kyoda) as Obaba
- [Nomura Shinji](https://cinepixo.com/people/nomura-shinji)

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Official site: https://www.ghibli.jp/works/nausicaa/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind-1984
Film facts: Wikidata (Q8885676); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.