Castle in the Sky | |
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Japanese | 天空の城ラピュタ |
Hepburn | Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta |
Directed by | Hayao Miyazaki |
Produced by | Isao Takahata |
Written by | Hayao Miyazaki |
Starring | Mayumi Tanaka Keiko Yokozawa Kotoe Hatsui Minori Terada |
Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
Cinematography | Hirokata Takahashi |
Edited by | Takeshi Seyama Yoshihiro Kasahara |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Toei Company |
Release date | |
Running time | 124 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $15.5 million |
Character name | Original cast | English voice actor (Magnum/Tokuma/Streamline, 1989) | English voice actor (Disney, 1998/2003) |
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Pazu | Mayumi Tanaka | Barbara Goodson (Bertha Greene) | James Van Der Beek |
Princess Sheeta (Lusheeta Toel Ur Laputa) | Keiko Yokozawa | Lara Cody (Louise Chambell) | Anna Paquin Debi Derryberry (young) |
Captain Dola | Kotoe Hatsui | Rachel Vanowen | Cloris Leachman |
Colonel Muska (Romuska Palo Ur Laputa) | Minori Terada | Jeff Winkless (Jack Witte) | Mark Hamill |
General Muoro | Ichirō Nagai | Mike Reynolds (Mark Richards) | Jim Cummings |
Uncle Pom | Fujio Tokita | Edward Mannix (Cyn Branch) | Richard Dysart |
Charles (Shalulu) | Takuzō Kamiyama | Barry Stigler (Bob Stuart) | Mike McShane |
Louis (Lui) | Yoshito Yasuhara | Dave Mallow (Colin Phillips) | Mandy Patinkin |
Henri (Anli) | Sukekiyo Kamiyama | Eddie Frierson (Ernest Fessler) | Andy Dick |
Mr. Duffi (Boss) | Hiroshi Ito | Clifton Wells (Charles Wilson) | John Hostetter |
Old Engineer | Ryūji Saikachi | Eddie Frierson (Ernest Fessler) | Matt K. Miller |
Motro | |||
Okami | Machiko Washio | Lara Cody (Louise Chambell) | Tress MacNeille |
Madge | Tarako | Barbara Goodson (Bertha Greene) | Debi Derryberry |
Narrator | N/A | Peter Fernandez | N/A |
Castle in the Sky | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | 25 August 1986 |
Label | Tokuma |
Title | Release[27] | Sales[28] | Revenue (est.)[27] |
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Castle in the Sky Laputa Image Album ~The Girl Falling From the Sky~ (天空の城ラピュタ イメージアルバム 〜空から降ってきた少女〜) | 25 May 1986 | 155,000 | ¥387,500,000 |
Castle in the Sky Laputa Soundtrack ~Flight Mystery of the Stone~ (天空の城ラピュタ サウンドトラック 〜飛行石の謎〜) | 25 August 1986 | 380,000 | ¥950,000,000 |
Castle in the Sky Laputa Symphony Version ~ Tree (天空の城ラピュタ シンフォニー編 〜 大樹) | 25 January 1987 | 95,000 | ¥237,500,000 |
'Carrying You' (君をのせてKimi wo Nosete) (Azumi Inoue single) | 25 March 1988[29] | 75,000 | ¥73,725,000[29] |
Castle in the Sky Laputa Drama ~Light Rebirth!~ (天空の城ラピュタ シンフォニー編 〜光よ甦れ!〜) | 25 February 1989 | 60,000 | ¥1,355,840,000 |
Castle in the Sky Laputa: Hi-Tech Series (天空の城ラピュタ ハイテックシリーズ) | 25 November 1989 | 85,000 | ¥212,500,000 |
Castle in the Sky: Laputa USA Version Version Soundtrack (CASTLE IN THE SKY〜天空の城ラピュタ USAヴァージョンサウンドトラック〜) | 2 October 2002 | 30,000 | ¥75,000,000 |
Total sales | 880,000 | ¥3,292,065,000 ($41,259,118) |
We didn't dub it. Streamline didn't dub it. And I told the people at Tokuma Shoten that I thought the dubbing was marginal on Laputa and I thought that it could be a better product if they had a better dubbing. To me, there's a certain element of class that you can bring to a project. Laputa is a very classy film, so it required a classy dub and the dub given to that particular film was adequate but clumsy. I didn't like it all. It's not something that I appreciated intellectually as well as aesthetically.
天空の城ラピュタ
Okay, so the Chocobos – big, yellow riding birds – were actually stolen from Hayao Miyazaki's movie Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind, and Hironobu Sakaguchi freely admitted that way back when. He also admits that the airships were inspired by 'Laputa,' also directed by Miyazaki.