Castle in the Sky (1986)

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124 min - Animation | Action | Adventure - 2 August 1986 (Japan)

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Ratings: 8.1/10 from 32,036 users
Reviews: 142 user | 100 critic

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Mayumi Tanaka	...	Pazu (voice)
	James Van Der Beek	...	Pazu (voice: English version)
	Keiko Yokozawa	...	Sheeta (voice)
	Kotoe Hatsui	...	Dola (voice)
	Cloris Leachman	...	Dola (2003) (voice: English version)
	Minori Terada	...	Muska (voice)
	Richard Dysart	...	Uncle Pomme (2003) (voice: English version)
	Fujio Tokita	...	Uncle Pomme (voice)
	Ichirô Nagai	...	Shogun Mouro (voice)
	John Hostetter	...	Boss (voice: English version)
	Hiroshi Ito	...	Oyakata (voice)
	Machiko Washio	...	Okami (voice)
	Takumi Kamiyama	...	Charles (voice)
	Michael McShane	...	Charles (voice: English version)
	Mandy Patinkin	...	Louis (voice: English version)

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Storyline

A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machines, eventually searching for Sheeta's identity in a floating castle of a lost civilization. Written by Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com>

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Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

2 August 1986 (Japan) See more »

Also Known As:

El castillo en el cielo See more »

Box Office

Gross:

$3,106,327 (France) (4 February 2003)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nibariki, Studio Ghibli, Tokuma Shoten See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

124 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

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Trivia

On December 9, 2011, a Japanese showing of Castle in the Sky led to a new Twitter record with 25,088 tweets per second. See more »

Goofs

Continuity: When Muska is announcing his rise in rank and plan to the soldiers, he is shown from the side wearing his red uniform, but the next shot from just in front of him shows it changed to green before it's shown afterward, always red. See more »

Quotes

[Louie and Pazu are in Tiger Moth's engine room]
Louis: Hey, Pop! I've finally found ya an assistant!
Papa: [disgruntled] Stop yelling at me! I can hear you. Believe me, sometimes I wish I couldn't.
[to Pazu]
Papa: Come on, assistant! Let's see what you can do!
Louis: [whispering in Pazu's ear] Uh, hurry up. He is even tougher than my mother.
Papa: I need someone who's *mechanically* minded, not some half-baked, swashbuckling Casanova wannabe!
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Crazy Credits

The end credits show the remains of the castle Laputa floating on Earth's
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Connections

Referenced in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) See more »

Castle in the Sky (1986)
Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (original title)

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