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Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984) More at IMDbPro »

• The name Mehve (Nausicaä's glider) is derived from "Möwe", the German word for "seagull".
  
  
• "Oobaba" translates into English as "great old woman".
  
  
• The lack of color fidelity used in certain versions give many people the impression that Naushika 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.
  
  
• Kazunori Itô wrote the first draft of this movie.
  
  
• The climatic God Soldier scene was animated by Hideaki Anno, who would soon go on to make a name for himself at the Gainax studio.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Hayao Miyazaki] [flying] Nausicaa flies on her Mehve in many scenes of the the movie, and gives Mehve lessons during the credits.
  
  
• Nausicaä is the name of a character in Homer's Odyssey
  
  
• 56,078 traditional "cels" were used in the film.
  
  
• 263 colors were used in the film.
  
  
• Adapted from the original manga which Hayao Miyazaki wrote and drew for Animage from February 1982 through March 1994. He took breaks from working on the manga & worked on the earlier anime films he did.
  
  
• Background designer Noriko Takaya was the inspiration for naming the female lead in the series "Aim for the Top! Gunbuster", as the early founders of GAINAX were fans of the film Nausicaa. It should also be pointed out that this is carried over into Gunbuster as Noriko is a fan of "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind' herself.
  
  
• The movie is based on the first 2 volumes of the manga. The manga version however is longer and more complex compared to the movie. It features characters and places that weren't in the movie either.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Because it was an original story with no promotional tie in to anything, Miyazaki wrote a comic to get it produced.
  
  
• '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."
  
  

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