Nausicaa

My Dad went to the video store when I was in kindergarten and rented me a movie called Warriors of the Wind. (Today I would recommend renting the revamped and much better version Nausicaa. ) The director is the brilliant Hayao Miyazaki

The movie tells the story of Princess Nausicaa from the Valley of the Wind. The planet is dying as deadly flora and insects from the Toxic Jungle slowly engulfs the land. Giant beetle type creatures called Ohmu that remind me of roley polys are the guardians of said jungle. Any time you try to destroy it, they come and wipe out your town. Three separate nations are represented with Nausicaa's being stuck in the middle. She works to keep her people safe from the obvious bad outcome that is fated to hit.

Personal agenda's and revenge against the creatures from the jungle cloud the judgment of the ruling factions amongst the two problem nations.Along the way she makes allies and enemies. New discoveries challenge all that the people of this world have trusted as fact. Will Nausicaa have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the lives of everyone? My favorite little creature is the little furry guy to the right. His name is Teto. Isn't he cute?

Trivia:
The name Mehve (Nausicaä's glider) is derived from "Möwe", the German word for "seagull".

The lack of color fidelity used in certain versions give many people the impression that Nausicaa flies around in a miniskirt with a bare butt. This is not the case, she's wearing pants that happen to be roughly the same color as her skin, and the "skirt" is actually the lower part of her coat.

After the original, heavily re-written and edited 1980s release of this film in the United States (as "Warriors of the Wind"), which substantially changed the movie, Hayao Miyazaki demanded that any new licensor for his films be contractually bound to do no edits whatsoever aside from a straight translation and dub. Disney (who bought the rights to all of Miyazaki's films except Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979)) has honored this stipulation.

Ohmu means "king of the insects" in Japanese.

Nausicaä is the name of a character in Homer's Odyssey

The "Nausicaans" from Star Trek: The Next Generation were so named because the Star Trek writers were big fans of Japanese manga and anime, and Nausicaa in particular.

'Hayao Miyzaki' was so upset by the original international cut version that he sent a samurai sword to the Executive at Disney with a simple note which read: "No cuts."