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Castle in the Sky
(1986)
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Cast
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| Anna Paquin | ... |
Sheeta
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| James Van Der Beek | ... |
Pazu
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| Cloris Leachman | ... |
Dola
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| Mark Hamill | ... |
Muska
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| Richard Dysart | ... |
Uncle Pom
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| Jim Cummings | ... |
General
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John Hostetter | ... |
Boss
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| Michael McShane | ... |
Charles
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| Mandy Patinkin | ... |
Louis
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| Andy Dick | ... |
Henri
(voice)
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| Corey Burton | ... |
Additional Voices
(voice)
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| John DeMita | ... |
Additional Voices
(voice)
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| Debi Derryberry | ... |
Young Sheeta /
Madge /
Additional Voices
(voice)
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Eddie Frierson | ... |
Henri (1989 Dub) /
Old Engineer (1989 Dub) /
Additional Voices
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Susan Hickman | ... |
Additional Voices
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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:
JapanLanguage:
JapaneseRelease Date:
2 August 1986 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
Laputa See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$1,315,182 (France) (17 January 2003)Gross:
$3,048,494 (France) (31 January 2003)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Louis: Work, work, work. Busy, busy, busy, busy. Left, right, left, right. You're not here to have fun.
[inside the engine room; we see the gears turning]
Louis: As you can see, this room is loaded with all sorts of gears and gizmos!
Pazu: [fascinated] Wow, this engine room is amazing!
Louis: [dumbfounded] Is *that* what it's called?
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Hayao Miyazaki: [military history] The weaponry and mechanical settings in Laputa is a mixture of British and German designs. Miyazaki is a fan of German weaponry (he has manga works like The Return of Hans and Otto Carius - both about WWII German tank crews), so soldier's uniform, medals, and grenades (Stielhandgranate, the famous "potato masher" in WWII) are modeled after German design, not to mention the gigantic battle zeppelin "Goliath." However, since the town of Slag Ravine was modeled after a mining town in Wales, British-styled civilian clothing and British weapons such as Lee-Enfield SMLE Mk. III rifle (soldiers) and Webley top-break revolver (Muska and his agents) appear frequently in the film. See more »Goofs
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
[on the Tiger Moth, Louie is escorting Pazu to the Tiger Moth's engine room]Louis: Work, work, work. Busy, busy, busy, busy. Left, right, left, right. You're not here to have fun.
[inside the engine room; we see the gears turning]
Louis: As you can see, this room is loaded with all sorts of gears and gizmos!
Pazu: [fascinated] Wow, this engine room is amazing!
Louis: [dumbfounded] Is *that* what it's called?
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Thanks to the success of SPIRITED AWAY, I was recently able to obtain this title. In fact, thanks to SPIRITED, it is now available just about anywhere videos are sold, along with PRINCESS MONONOKE and KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE. (The warm and fuzzy MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO remains widely available, of course.) This one is a bit different, being a sci-fi adventure, but it retains many of the themes close to the director's heart so that it bears close ties to some of his other works. While not his best work by any means (that honor would fall to PRINCESS and SPIRITED), this is well worth viewing at least once, and possibly a second and third time. Kids of course will watch it over and over again. The music is by far the best of any of his existing films. It absolutely soars. (No pun intended, for those familiar with the plot.)