The Importance of Warriors of the Wind.
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Lets talk about the other version of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
UPDATE: One of the viewers uploaded a VHS rip of it online, if you are interested in checking out Warriors of the Wind look at the pinned comment.
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Hello! Been a while! I'm here to let you all know that the VHS rip one of my viewers kindly uploaded has been put up on the internet archive. So, it will never be lost again! Many still want to watch it but the original link expired so if you're one of the many people who've been asking about it just search it up on Archive.org and it will be the first result.
“Mom, can we get Studio Ghibli?”
“No, we have Studio Ghibli at home.”
The Studio Ghibli at home:
Miyazaki DID distribute his films outside Japan in the 80s, just not America. Growing up in Hong Kong I remember I watched Castle in the Sky, Valley of the Wind, Totoro in cinema in the 80s, bought the films' official soundtracks and toys. Mainly because Hong Kong distributors understood the spirit and culture and didn't cut the film in any significant portion like New World Picture did.
Totoro also got an American release in 1993
@@Vimacone by Troma of all studios. Granted on a different label.
I wonder then if Australia got a more accurate version then, because I really wonder about the one I got from a local video hire when I was 10-11. My memory might be faint now but when I got a DVD in the early 2000s the only scene I did not recall was Nausicca's basement plant room. Everything else in the movie was how I remembered it.
@@Bisaju2 Also Fox Searchlight Pictures (The Grand Budapest Hotel, (500) Days of Summer, Little Miss Sunshine) as their first film.
The pre-Disney English dubs for Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Kiki, and Porco Rosso were made for the Hong Kong market.
Ghibli was and continues to be very popular in Chinese-speaking markets.
Ghibli is the only force capable of outgrossing Hollywood capeshit in China.
@@Vimacone That DVD was very expensive for a while because Disney DID cut a few scenes of Totoro. The Fox/Troma version was the only truly uncut version.
I still have my VHS of Warriors of The Wind. At the time it was fantastic! After having found Nausicaa, it went to the shelf.
If you ever want to get rid of it I would be thrilled to give it a new home. Mine died
I feel like I walked into an alternate universe to find my favorite film was demolished and I was handed this.
Some people legit like this version of the movie, I have gotten comments where people said they enjoyed it as a kid and still enjoy it now. Some even defend it. I find that very interesting.
EnzotheOtaku Well, I managed to find it online, and well, that was...interesting.
@@Enzo_is_Tired It's not as butchered as Angel's Egg in English also known as In The Aftermath Angel's Never Sleep.
@@Enzo_is_Tired I’d be one of them!
@@Enzo_is_Tired grew up with WotW and prefer it than the 2005 English redub of it. still yet to watch the film with its original Japanese audio. WotW will always be in my heart
It's not that the Sea of Decay plants are harmless if treated with care.
It's that they are harmless if they grow in unpolluted soil and water.
Nausicaa takes pains to explain that she obtained both from the deep well in the bowels of the castle - much like the area found at the lowest levels of the Sea of Decay which has been purified by its plant life over time.
13:44 oh wow I forgot about Weinstein. Miyazaki should've tossed a katana at him
no. Through Him.
@@MilesTheDestroyer I believe that's implied XD
“The antagonists are never bad guys.”
Muska would like to have a word
lol
I still have my tape. My kids and I watched it ages ago, in early 80s. Didn't even know what anime was back then. And certainly nothing of the great Hayao Miyazaki. The cover was a mess, Had things on it that didn't even relate to the movie. What the heck!!!!
Same here!
Not as butchered as English Angel's Egg aka In the Aftermath Angel's Never Sleep.
Yeah, they literally have four male characters who never appear in the film in the front focus with Naussicä far in the background. What a disgrace.
I remember watching it over and over just to see if I somehow missed the doctor doom robot guy.
Warriors of the Wind was a huge part of my childhood! I'm so glad you did a video on it and I couldn't agree more! I saw Nausicaa many years later and suddenly a lot of the plot holes made sense. However, I will say that without WotW that I would not have been introduced to Miyazaki's work. I'm truly thankful that Miyazaki decided to release his movies in America...a lot of wonderful work would have never reached so many people that needed it in their lives!
Warriors of the Wind literally changed my life. It’s one of three films that made me want to be an artist. But I didn’t see Nausicaa until I went to college and my friends were horrified at how much they cut…still, it seems they couldn’t cut out that Miyazaki inspiration. Cutting the eye with the gunpowder, lying under the spores, and then the chase scene right after….they got me in five minutes and it’s been nearly forty years.
the ohm are called "gorgons" in the WOTW. "Zondra" actually uses her shell to blast off the shell's eye. Many scenes you describe as missing are in fact in my own copy.
That's interesting, because using her shell to blast off the eye is definitely missing in both internet archive versions.
viewed the Internet Archive versions and seems you're right. BTW Not enough people are aware of Internet Archive, a fantastic source of impossible to find films and TV programs available without cost.
That's actually really weird because a review using the original VHS I saw mentioned how that part was cut. Is your copy from outside of the USA? Maybe a different version was released as well.
uses her shotgun shell to blast off the eye. (sorry...clumsy writing)
@@Bryzerse not sure the origin; found it in 1984 in vhs format. assume its the US edit and release featuring Hal Smith flawlessly voicing Lord Yupa.
Very nice video! Lots of info! I do want to offer a different perspective on “Warriors of the Wind.” I was in 5th grade when this was released on home video. My father and I hungered for any animated science fiction, particularly from Japan. When we watched “Warriors of the Wind” we were absolutely blown away. Many of the cuts you mention were actually in the version we saw (the gun powder around the giant eyelid, for example). Also, the environmental message was still present, and the movie did retain its somewhat dark and melancholy tone. I agree that the Disney dub is a far better product, truer to the creator’s original vision, but I will always have a soft spot for the “Warriors” dub and the impact it had on my father and me!
I saw a fan remaster of it but that has been taken down.
I saw that too! He’s complaining that his favourite scene got cut of Nausicaa collecting spores and finding the ohmu and I thought…no, that’s what got me as a kid. Also the scene in the bottom of the forest and Nausicaa’s rescue not only by Asbel, but by Rastel’s mother. If it weren’t for Warriors my first Miyazaki movie would have been in college…and he may not have influenced me so much as an artist.
Me too @gary!
I was lucky to have an uncut version of this as a kid. I never did ask my parents where they got it, but my parents were hip like that. They had all kinds of imported stuff from when my Dad was in the military, but I never asked which one of them was into that sort of thing at the time. x3
OMG this just cleared up the 'Glitch' I have been living with my entire life. Warriors of the Wind came out when I was a kid and became the most influential movie of my childhood. The princess was my hero, and impacted how I saw the world around me forever. I rented that movie whenever possible as a kid, until it suddenly disappeared. Because this was of course, pre-internet, Warriors of the Wind was lost to me until discovering Nausicaa in my 20s. Watching it as an adult however, I could never understand why so many scenes seemed new and why I could never remember the name of the movie. I seriously thought I just made up the name warriors of the wind as a small child lol. All of the Studio Ghibli movies are my favorite and I was incredibly grateful to have a different kind of princess to look up to as a child thanks to Miyazaki. This is a long post but I just want you to know how important this has been to me and to thank you for proving to me I wasn't crazy after all 😊❤
Ah jeez I didnt know this print was hard to find! Should I upload my VHS rip?
That would be cool of you just not on UA-cam, would most likely be taken down by YT so somewhere else would be the best. Closest thing I found was a torrent link from 6 years ago but the link no longer works.
Already got blocked by Studio Ghibli, would have seen your message earlier but YT message system is dumb. Maybe try another site? Thanks though.
Ok Round 2 mega.nz/#!kpd21TRS!FJ74FbY3PGKOVfxJlu93osUPerkOA0qoxiwp4f8ftwk
It worked, gonna pin your comment so other people can download it. Thanks for uploading the movie.
Nice video. Interesting. After seeing Nausicaa in the theater (Fathom event), I was thinking of digging out my old VHS copy and reediting an HD version to the WotW audio. WotW was the first version of Nausicaa I saw, and I loved the movie then. So seeing the original later was just a lot of good bonus stuff for me. Thanks for the upload Shivas!
WotW is important because millions of people saw it and fell in love with Miyazaki. My recollection of WotW is nebulous but I do remember being deeply affected by it even in its abused form. When I eventually saw Nausicaa, I didn't even really notice that it was an entirely different film since I had appreciated them both without anything to compare them to.
It's rare to find content of this quality and substance. In no way did that feel like a 15-minute video to me, since I was so engrossed. Keep up the remarkable work.
Imagine cutting someone down so hard without actually doing anything. That was that "No cuts" move right there.
Thank you for the video! Had no idea this Warriors of the Wind thing even existed.
Im so glad the real Nausicaa is on Blu ray it's also coming out to theaters in May, cant wait!
I definetely saw an English dub of Laputa in the '80s, as I spent years trying to work out what it was being too young at the time.
Holy crap Larry Bundy! You're the last person I expected to see my video! Uhh thanks for that. Many others were in the same boat having watched this version at a young age. I was really surprised to see how nostalgic people were towards it.
Streamline mad a dub of it back then
@@mr.smith45 It wasn’t Streamline.
It was commissioned by Tokuma for an in-flight movie in Japan Airlines and also a Hong Kong release.
The pre-Disney Ghibli dubs were made for the Hong Kong market.
@@HydraSpectre1138 cool why didnt hong long releases have the dubs then though
@@mr.smith45 Yeah. It’s really weird.
I remember watching Warriors of the Wind when it came out on local TV and having so much fun... because the dubbing was hilarious!
My favorite: "It's Lord Yupa! Kill him and you'll be famous!"
That does not sound too diffrent from what the tourmekian soldiers said in the original....
I think the voice acting is so much better here than in the Disney version (obviously the best way is to watch the full version subtitled)
oh yah I loved that part.
The newer dub actually kept that line.
@AlekzHertz Feel like it was a little too witty, but.
Asbel's home town was called "Placeda"......(pluh - see. - duh) in the WOTW dub. Not Placenta.
It’s fun as hell to mock though. Placeeta sounds like everything from Placenta to some kind of Italian dish to an alternative to viagra, and all to replace Pejite, a name that actually sounds like a nation.
the cuts were apparently to simplify the plot and add to the action for the sake of making the movie "kid friendly". Note the cover...one character has a light sabre; another character seems mostly mechanical; plus the ohm being ridden is similar to the sandworm scenes in Dune. A link to Star Wars and other recognizable films helped make the cut version more marketable. In all the flick was released on tape primarily for the Children's section of the videostore.
diddymuck A funny bit of trivia is that Miyazaki was allegedly inspired by Dune to create Nausicaa, especially when he named the Ohmus, as it was the closest phonetical Japanese rendition of the word "worm". So it's pretty ironic to see how things came full circle with the Warriors of the Wind's poster.
There was a snarky comment in "Amazing Heroes" years ago that said the cutting of "Nausicaa" into "Warriors" was to lose footage objected to by Union Carbide. In December 1984--about two weeks after the film's premiere--the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India had a leak that killed more than 3,500 people. After that, they were VERY conscious about their public image. I doubt that an animated Japanese film from an unknown director was on their radar, but the scenes that were cut included Nausicaa's secret laboratory where she shows Lord Yupa that the jungle itself was not inherently toxic as the Valley had thought. The princess here was more heroic than most people have realized...
No cuts, _that is a threat_
I still have a copy of my VHS tape and its slip cover. I pick it off a shelf in a local rental store in 1988 cuz I thought the case looked cool but way too young to know it was a horribly edited version. I'll never lose my respect for it since it was my introduction to anime at only 5 years old. I always loved how Cam Clarke is the voice of Asbel (Milo) and turned out to be Leonardo from Ninja Turtles!
That samurai sword thing... this is how Yakuza does it :D
No, bro, don't glorify gangsters. Although, that was very Gangsta.
Great video! Warriors of the Wind was one of the earliest anime I had ever seen back in, I think, 1986. I was all of 11 or so at the time but I was sucked in by the incredible animation, it was unlike anything I had seen before. I was much less picky about plot at that age, I didn't understand what anime even was. I just knew that I was hooked. Warriors of the Wind may have been a prime example of bad editing, but it certainly stoked my fires for more and I have been a fan ever since. I even ordered an english dubbed Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind from Japan a couple of years before the release stateside. This movie, along with the show Starblazers and Robotech put me well on the road to appreciating the art, I've always been happy I was around when anime really picked up in the states, there is just something about anime that a lot of American animation just doesn't even get close to.
I never thought I would say this but I love Disney for taking Ghibli's catalogue fr.
If Hayao Miyazaki had the infinity gauntlet with six stones, i think we all know what's coming...
This movie was indeed my first exposure to Miyazaki, but I never stopped digging deeper and becoming a bigger fan in spite of it, and now I have all his movies and a beautiful hard cover compilation of the Nausicaa manga. I'm grateful for that crappy old vhs copy of Warriors of the Wind that started it all.
As always great video Enzo! Analysis like this is what I learn from. Thanks for dropping knowledge
I remember getting this on vhs for my kids to watch one weekend, they got a little bored but I was hooked, I haven't seen it since and was thinking about it today.
I first seen Warriors of the Wind around 1989 when I was a preschooler. I became obsessed with it, even so much, I regularly as a kid dreamed of the sequence where the horizon was filled with the red eyes of the Ohm (Gorgons).
I remember watching Warriors of the Wind as a kid. I remember the story was a bit confusing. Years later, watching the full version was a bit of a revelation. The story bits they cut were pretty important for cohesion.
the man is a damn Legend and his movies are *HIGH ART* not for how entertaining they are, but the lessons they teach and the ''feeling'' of them. its difficult to explain, but once you have watched them you just kind of understand what im talking about.
I have warriors of the wind on VHS. There was a lot edited out of the movie . I loved this movie as a a a young teen
I saw The original Valley of the wind first time when I was four. Japanese, original audio with subtitles. Been my favourite movie ever since. First time my parents read me the lines, but I learned to read young so that wasn’t a problem. Couldn’t imagine this masterpiece get cut into something that bad😣. I’m so happy I saw the original one. Although this was in the 21th century and the bad cut probably didn’t even make it to my country in the first place...
I love your take on this. It's interesting how bad decisions can lead to better outcomes in the end!
I grew up with the cut version so from a nostalgic point of view, I prefer it. I saw the new english dub with Patrick Steward. I liked that the begining was cut cause it reveals too much and when you get to hear the story later on and they show those fire demons walking, it just makes more of an impact. But other then that, it is a shame the other bits were taken out. Still my fav animations.
I freakin' grew up with this movie. The original dub isn't as bad as most people seem to think (our protagonist in particular has a far more engaging performance and they chose a more atypical voice) and while there is an environmental message in the uncut version, it's... about as subtle as a brick to the head?
Now, I say this as a genuine '80s kid. WotW is fine. A VHS classic. Worth a watch if you can find one.
Warriors of The Wind gets a bad rap generally. But to thousands, maybe even hundred of thousands or so, Was our first experience. While I agree that the true film Version was superior, the film we were shown inspired. And thats what I think they really went for.
Actually. Troma films released My neighbor Totoro i back in the early nineties. I know because i saw it in a local theater. I was suprised as hell because troma films was more known for weird horror type films.
It's not entirely true that no Miyazaki anime was released outside Japan before 1996.
The UK had a dubbed and uncut release of Sherlock Hound on VHS in the 80's, and a
dub of Laputa was aired on UK TV around 1990/1991 (though that one was a little edited).
Ayy great vid as always. Sucks that your channel is so small.
the he-man org review failed to mention that Lord Yupa in WOTW was voice by H-B veteran (and Mayberry's favorite drunk) Hal Smith, who apparently did most of the adult male Valley citizen's voices (Axel, etc).
Fantastic piece. I remember being 11 in 1992 and just discovering anime--and I learned about Warriors of the Wind, so finally tracked down a video store that had Warriors of the Wind. Soon after I discovered the internet I found fansub videos of Studio Ghibli's works--but I admit it still feels kinda surreal at how relatively mainstream the Miyazaki films, especially, are in North America pop culture.
Hi! I made an in-depth coverage of Warriors of the Wind's background history I'm sure many viewers here would be intrigued by.
Honestly I really wonder if the version I watched back when I was a kid (in the late 80s, early 90s, hired from a video hire store) but I don't feel like anything like the God Warrior prologue, finding the Ohm shell or the spore rain, were ever missing. The only scene I do not remember recalling from my 80s viewing was Nausicca's basement room of juggle plants. I really wonder if maybe a corrected release reached Australia and that is what I watched. Maybe even back then Madman were Australia's importer of anime and they got a more accurate version for our market.
I saw the uncut original many years ago and have looked for it ever since. To me it was one of the best I had or have ever seen. I love Fire and Ice, Wizards and others but this one owned them all. I found myself wishing I lived in her world, the Princess would have had another loyal supporter
I understand. But I like BOTH versions of this movie. Even Warriors was best anime film in US back in 1985. Today in 2023, Nausicaa has become the popular version and Warriors has become nearly extinct. Now I want to find Warriors again. Ironic.
Look at my pinned comment.
Castle in the sky totoro and kiki and proco rosse all got dubs before disney was involved. Castle in the sky even had American theatrical showings and totoro had vhs and laserdisc releases via fox
Nausicca will always have a place in my soul. It was my first exposure to anime without knowing what anime was o.o
I was around 3 or 4 when i first saw it on VHS in the early 1990s
One of my all time favorite movies and my actual favorite anime--can't tell you how pissed I was that they changed it. And, you are right about the whole dumbing down thing for the dumb US market.
Fascinating, from what you are saying, the German release suffered even more cuts than the American release. 5:15 This scene is still there in it's entirety. 7:28 I'm pretty sure is still there but I'd have to double check. 8:12 I know for sure is in there. With the New World Release, there is internal thought that plays, while the Disney version remains silent. As a side note, you mention the cover of the movie. From what I've seen the European version is a lot closer to the original. vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/doblaje/images/8/86/Warriors_of_the_Wind_poster.png/revision/latest?cb=20161028174348&path-prefix=es Not sure if you are interested but I did a video as well comparing the 2 movies back to back. ua-cam.com/video/n6yYmBROGHM/v-deo.html
I have a bit of an ASMR phobia so while this video was very well done, wonderfully explained and helpful to understand what happened... the severely nasally voice with sticky saliva sound effects was so hard to handle for me. My skin was crawling. I couldn’t finish it... :(
I'm sorry you couldn't finish it. I am very aware about that. I have gotten many comments about that. This video was 2 years ago and my audio has gotten better.
@@Enzo_is_Tired Thanks for replying to me! I will check out your newer videos. :)
@@kbs1212 Thank you, I hope you enjoy them.
I watched both the warriors of the wind and nassica valley of the wind. I liked both. Warriors took on the human aspect. Nassica of the valley of the wind felt more focused on the nature and less on the humans. The focuses are so different.
The cuts can be summed up with removing 90 percent of the envomental message and kept most of the antiwar message. It was very specfic.
Pejite is probably renamed 'Placenta' because the embryonic Giant Warrior is located there.
Pejite が"Placenta"に変えられてたとは。
日本語で「胎盤/Placenta」なんて都市名が出てきたら驚きます。
I still have a vhs copy from my friend, and also I remember contacting David Schmoeller who was involved in the Warriors version but an earlier version for Manson International but was not sure it survived to New World’s release.
This is what he said
“It was in the early 1980's - so, it must have been the badly edited 85 minute version. I had nothing to do with editing the film. The Foreign distributor did not like the English dub of the film and brought me in to help fix the dub.
The main problem was that the people who did the original English dub, wrote the english dialogue to fit the lip sync length, whether the English dialogue made any sense or not.
I don't think it ended up much better when all was said and done.
Disney picked up the rights to the movie in the early 2000's and honored the director's wish to keep it the original length (117 minutes?) and that the English translation match the Japanese dialogue. They also hired Hollywood star actors to do a new English dub.
I don't know anything about the New World release - except I'm sure it is better than the 1980's version...”
P.S. - I hope pieces of the Warriors HD Trailer that I did were used.
Awesome, very informative! :D
If you know where to look, someone created a fan edit using the blu-ray to recreate an HD version of *Warriors of the Wind.* It could use a little more work (some edits have split second bits of the following scene before the proper cut. Funnily enough, I notice this when watching it on VLC on my PC, but not when watching it on my HDTV). I would be interested in seeing a version 2.0 adding a proper *WotW* title overlay (when Zhondra is walking in the Toxic Jungle in the intro) and adding the "snowing on the Gorgon shell" and "the childhood vision" when they're in the Toxic Jungle after the destruction of the Temeculan freighters.
In regards to the poster, I'm surprised they didn't go with the UK VHS artwork, which is _fantastic!_ It is the one that usually has a red border, and it depicts Lord Yuppa being chased by an angry Gorgon, with Zhondra flying in the foreground above, with the Temeculans all behind her.
My mom got me the Warriors of The Wind VHS when it first came out and was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I always thought it was original movie and not totally cut lol..I guess I need to watch the new dubbed version!
Great video! Just discovered this movie yesterday and loved it! I didn't know any of these details between Ghibli and Disney!
All the cute you mention are in the version I watched hundreds of times growing up.
I’ve actually begun attempting to restore the 1985 dub in HD quality so soon (hopefully) people curious about this version won’t have to deal with a pan and scan VHS tape
Gotta switch the S and the B around to be Asbel, but badass video, man! WotW was a huge part of my childhood. That Joe Hisaishi score: 😚🤌
America dumbing down great films because it believes its children are too stupid to appreciate complex and emotional themes. It's like slapping yourself in the face.
While the cuts are bad, I still find myself preferring most of the voice acting from WotW. In particular, Chris Sarandon gives a completely bland performance in Disney's Nausicaa release that does not fit at all. I generally do not watch dubs unless forced, and do not like '90s and up voice acting in particular, but I always gave WotW and pass and thought they did a fine job of it, except for Nausicaa herself, who kinda sounded like Rocky from Rocky & Bullwinkle. Overall, I think Disney's A-List dubs are among the most dull dubs that have ever been, which is so surprising given the fact that their own feature animation has always been the gold standard of voice acting. For their Ghibli dubs it's just easy money for their celebrities who just do a wham-bam quick read.
I always wonder how did Carl Macek release his dub of My Neighbor Totoro if Ghibli banned releases of their films outside of Japan till Disney?
nonono
Because he didn't--Totoro was released to American audiences by a Fox/Troma partnership.
Thankfully, I was so young when I saw Warriors of the Wind that I only really had vague impressions of since of its action sequences and environments when I "rediscovered" it through the anime pages of a Swedish gaming magazine... probably around 2001?
So I'm pretty sure I spent hours downloading a fansub of the movie, probably through Kazaa. The first scene with Yupa was slightly corrupted, but I've loved the movie ever since and collect various DVD and Blu-ray releases. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost track of my Chinese DVD in recent years, though I still have my Hong Kong bootleg...
there were early dubs for totoro and porco rosso fyi. these were the versions i grew up with and still have on dvd/vhs
kiki and laputa were released also. under streamline pictures i believe
I remember some of those scenes when I was a kid from the warriors of the wind movie
Love nausicaa of the valley of the wind but this was a unique cut up of a classic masterpiece by Miyazaki
Don't know how much "truth" there is to this, but regardless of how you feel about a lot of the name changes (Gorgon; Fire Demon), the changed names for the 2 other city nations are actually derived from cities/areas located in California.
Temecula is located in south eastern California, near Silicon Valley (between Los Angeles and San Diego). Placeda I believe is also located in California (I forgot where my brother and I found it on the map, but I think it's north/ northeast of Temecula, about the north area of the San Juaquin valley). From this I assume that the valley of the wind is what's left of San Fransisco, which would explain the Super Submarine located near the bay (as San Fransisco has a heavy Navy presence), which, after a few thousand years, was cut off from the ocean and turned into a toxic reservoir/lake (one can believe that there are multiple super submarines sunk in the acid lake, and it was leaking nuclear waste from their reactors that caused the lake to become toxic over time).
Edit: doing a quick google search, there is a Placentia, California located in Orange county, almost right next to Temecula. Either Placeda is a competing city state, with the Temeculans and Placedans being the future remnants of Los Angeles and San Diego (as well as Silicon Valley and any industry in that area), or Placeda is supposed to be more in San Juaquin valley or even western Nevada, considering the desert environment (maybe the White Sands area of California).
Wow.. looking at a Google map of California, Placentia/Placeda would be right next to White Sands. I guess if Los Angeles and San Diego were turned to glass during the Five Days of Fire, I'm guessing the Temeculans and Placedans moved in over the next century to scavenge the remains of the cities, and eventually built their own city state empires from there.
Oh, boy, if there was ever a really bad time to try marketing "Nausicaa" to the U.S., it was... well, anytime before the year 2000, really prior to that, U.S. film studios just assumed American movie goers weren't interested in female leads and would actively go out of their way to always focus on the men in the marketing. So the localizers felt they had to lie about what this film was about in the advertising. So, I'm not surprised this bombed hard.
I saw the chop job US version as a kid. I liked it at the time. I got the proper full Japanese edition on DVD 10 years ago. The American movie companies did horrible chop jobs on the Japanese Animated features.
4:42, that video of this person showing his tape of WOTW saying “an old Miyazaki film that was bastardized due to censorship” no longer exists. So now this is the only footage of it that remains. Though about a year ago almost someone uploaded a remastered version of the Warriors edit. Which actually didn’t really offend me and people saw that when they were young weren’t.
Well, YT recommendations finally got something right, I really like your videos!
My heart ache when you said Miyazaki didn't want his movies out here in western lands, thank Mickey-Lord that didn't occur.
I'll continue now to bingewatch your videos.
Thanks man!!! Currently working on some new ones so you'll have more to come, hopefully I don't let you down. My other vids don't get the luxury of YT recommendation so I really appreciate that.
I have a VHS copy of Warriors of the wind😉
Ok, YES, the Warriors of the wind version is tremendously inferior to Nausicaa, tremendously... tremendously tremendously... ☺️ BUT a lot of the cuts you mentioned are not cut. There are moments scaled down, and yes the beginning was edit cut and a lot of those moments are gone. BUT... it is still a coherent film some of the ending scenes you mention are cut are NOT cut. Sadly this was the only way we could see some of these movies at that time. Bastardization is.... maybe fair, but it villain-izes early studios un-necessarily. At the time “general” audiences weren’t even interested in genuine anime from a “foreign country”. Warriors if the wind was a pre-robotech era gem in a very sad time.
I've never seen the movie but I will watch it twice. The bad dub and the good dub.
A 720p version was uploaded to UA-cam 2 months ago
If you are still interested I found a version of the warriors of the wind movie: archive.org/details/warriorsofthewind.
nausicaa, spirited away and kiki's delivery service were one of the first anime movies i ever saw, i love them and they will always have a special place in my heart.
Me too! I watched nausicaa for the first time yesterday and loved it! I also loved the giant warriors
Warriors of the Wind and Unico were the first two animes I remember seeing when I was young along with the first dragon ball movie right around that time
Ew, Weinstein
I wish more studios would request their stuff not to be cut or edited unless there’s a very specific cultural shift happening like with Pom Poko and the ‘pouches’ since the actual word isn’t seen as kid friendly over here like it is in Japan.
It’s stuff like this that makes me respect Miyazaki-san more because he cares about his craft and even when he had a film I didn’t care for I still respected it since it was from him.
I am so proud of him and the entirety of Studio Ghibli for always caring about the end product.
This video is wrong, all the scenes from 8:13 through 8:35 were included in Warriors of the Wind
The first princess i fell in love with ❤️
Saaaame! 🥰
My version includes all but the intro.We, the company I worked for, saved the day. I'm UK.
Hm. I saw this movie in my early teens, and my memory of it is kinda blurry. But I remember that it was the first "grown up" anime I've ever seen and how I was completely blown away by the animation style, music and story - at the time I had never seen anything like it before. Also, it was the first english-dubbed anime I've ever seen (I live in Germany, usually movies are dubbed in German over here), and at the time my english was not the best so I most likely did not understand some parts of the story.
Watching this video I wonder what version of the movie I actually saw. I got my hands on a press copy of the movie called "Warriors Of The Wind", but I definitely remember the opening scene that went of for many minutes without a single line of dialogue, where she's exploring the spore jungle, collecting samples - according to this video that scene shouldn't be there. Did Germany/Europe get the original cut, but with the "Warriors of the wind" title?
Warrior of the wind has been uploaded online because of the video, so if you want to check it out just check the pinned tweet and go to the bottom of the thread.
I found a old German vhs from Nausicaa on eBay the Titel is „Stern Krieger Warriors of the Wind“ maybe the German version is a bit longer than the US version
weird none of these are cut in my version also remember the old men higaking the tank
Great video
Every single one is great in my opinion
I loved Warriors of the Wind. Having never seen the original, it was my first exposure to anime and I found the story and art to be extraordinary. I'm a Miyazaki fan today because of Warriors of the Wind, and I suspect many others are as well. I have the VHS and the "official" DVD released by Disney. I still prefer the Warriors of the Wind cut and I never had an issue with the translation or voice acting. I also liked the revised names of the characters. I understand this is not the popular opinion. However I think Warriors of the Wind stands on its own as an alternate version of this film which deserves more appreciation for bringing anime to an American audience.
You are not the only one. My sister and I (who grew up watching this on HBO back in the mid to late 80's) prefer the Manson dub over the Disney dub simply due to the voices in *WotW* having more energy and sounding more like they come from the characters speaking. The Disney dub suffers from either sedated voices or voices that are way too recognizable (looking at you, Patrick).
I can go either way as far as the edits (I can only recall the "testing of the Gorgon shell, the snowfall on the Gorgon shell, the chico beans gifted by the children, the childhood memory", and "nausicaa in the lab"), as they are nice scenes, but I can understand why they were cut, as the essence of the story is still retained. There are some interesting theories as to why the cuts were made, but people are forgetting the time period. In the 1980's, there was an unwritten rule that everything had to be @ 90 minutes, as movie companies made their money on selling as many tickets as possible, and that meant having as many showings during a day as possible (VHS rental stores weren't quite widespread in the mid to late 1980's).
Regardless, I do not understand *WotW* being labeled as "butchered", as everything is comprehensible, nor are there elements introduced and forgotten, or items/characters introduced later that were never set up (because those scenes were cut). Sure, one can still argue about the dubbing as well as the fact that those cut scenes are well done and important to further developing Zhondra/Nausicaa... but they aren't _necessary._
its 2020 and i still love it!!
I just bought Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind this year and I loved it!
Ayy that's awesome!!!I watched it for the first time for this video and fell in love with it immediately. Glad you enjoyed it!!!
Also, its PLA-CETA.Try not to be a whomp, they say it in the film FFS.
Good video, but what about the Streamline Pictures dub of Kiki's Delivery Service, and the Troma dub of Totoro?
It hurts every time you say the studio name incorrectly...
Hayao Miyazaki himself pronounces it like that
@@sevenblueprints5276 No he doesn't. I'm Japanese.
@@sevenblueprints5276 何も分かっていないのに。。。アホかお前は
@@spewaysealat darn, I've pronounced it with a hard 'g' my whole life 😭 and I've heard someone say he would initially pronounce it like that too. Thanks for educating me tho!!