1984 · adventure · animation · fantasy
Warriors of the Wind
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki1h 35m1984
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
Our read: Warriors of the Wind (1984) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive adventure · animation · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, extreme adventure / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
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