Nausicaa, American Style

Good old Americanization, bringing shame to the rest of the Americas.

For those who want to know more about this history of this film:

Miyazaki was livid over the changes the company made to the film. The cutting of the secret garden scene, the rewritten plot, music changes, and the title itself "Warriors of the Wind" were so angering to Miyazaki that he vowed to never let his movies get licensed overseas again. This is why it took Disney and a team of lawyers years of negotiating with Studio Ghibli in order to license his films - he told them to fuck off.

In the end Disney won out, but it took suitcases of cash, a promise not to change _anything_ about the films except for the dubbing process itself, and absolute veto power by Studio Ghibli on all matters of script, casting, etc. (Ghibli once sent a katana to Disney with the message "no cuts" after an exec suggested changes to Princess Mononoke)

This is ancient old. Didn't Miyazaki say that nobody should mention this localization again?

I see they have to make Nausicaa into Xena ........

Isn't this old news? Didn't Miyazaki say that no one should ever speak of the American release of this movie ever again?

IT was the 80's. I blame all the cocaine.

You don´t really remember saban moon right?

wait, what? this is the really old american adaption from years and years ago. it was redubbed, renamed, and given a new cover years ago.

The American poster actually makes sense. They’re marketing to a completely different audience, one who was years away from taking a cute, action girl protagonist seriously. Now, something similar to the original poster could work, but they’d spark more interest with the action-oriented one.

The movie was also cut down to 80 minutes.
The us cover looks like a cheap horror movie.

OMG?

oh - OH!! this is so wronk!!

Warriors of the Wind = was originally cut and edited by a bunch of western hillbillies who had no idea what the original Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind, was about.
Which is why its such a screwed up farce. & WHY Miyazaki-san wants everyone to consider that that release never existed.

I can appreciate what Nausicca means to Miyzaki-san, because he was the original artist & author of the original manga.
What the Anime means to him as well, a lot of sacrafices were made to the saga of the manga, to make the anime. Which is why it doesnb't follow the manga.

But the mere fact that hillbillies messed up the anime in its first western release - is totally wrong.
This does not need to be re-hashed and ridiculed.

o.0***!!!!

They're riding on Ultros!!! Don't tease the octopus, kids!

I remember this horrible cover and dub... it was like 1984 or so... it was BAD. And of course the cover is completely wrong.

Its a bad mix of DUNE - StarWars - He-Man's Skelator and Pegasus?! W T F !

Haha, I think only the PS2 title "ICO" can top this:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps2/ico/cover-art

The american poster was so awesome that when I actually saw the movie it was kind of a letdown.

It's not just the cover. They cut out 25 - 30 minutes of the movie. It isn't even possible to understand the plot of the US version, they left the motif out. I think that's why Hayao Miyazaki is so protective about his works and insisted to Disney not to edit anything in Pricess mononoke. They feared a too high age rating would hurt potential sales. (Nausicaa was created before the foundation of Studio Ghibli)

Which is more offensive, the pushing of the female lead into the background, or the false promises of a robotic grim reaper?

I can't decide.

So...Do we have an American version of the Totoro poster?

as european mainstream media have been culturally infeoded for half a century to US', it's not surprising to have euro coutries follow that blindly the "primal" marketing techniques from US

Oh my god!, the American one is seriously bad.

That is indeed the US cover for the movie. I've got it on VHS from like forever ago. It's a great movie even in it's hacked state, shows the quality of the product when you can hack it up and it's still good.

Sark

Looks like a Star Wars ripoff =D

You shittin me?
That last one looks like Paul Atreides from Dune on a big m-f sandworm.

USA's poster horrible

This is why most american artwork for movies, anime, and video games FAILS. Someone punch out the guys doing this. They always never try to bring it even closer to the original. I'm American and I know the USA artwork SUCKS!

Nah, I own the German Edition of Nausicaa and it has the original (Japanese) cover.

That better not be a macho guy I see on the front of the American poster...

Reminds me of this pic
http://sadpanda.us/images/170767-9YTX0I6.jpg

this is older than I am!

people here must have never seen some of the foreign posters for our movies. it's equally as bad as this.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16990_lost-in-translation-20-baffling-foreign-movie-posters.html

Miyazaki suggested that people should put it "out of their minds." Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki have asked fans to forget its existence and later adopted a strict "no-edits" clause for future foreign releases of its films. On hearing that Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein would try to cut Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable, one of Studio Ghibli's producers sent an authentic katana with a simple message: "No cuts"

Japan steals from China. We steal from Japan.

It's the cycle of theft.

try looking at some bad foreign posters for american movies. we're not the only one who try to market movies misleadingly.

lolwat, etc. etc.

Ah the 1980's when Hollywood attempted to make everything look like Star Wars..........even if it was nothing like Star Wars

Hilarious

I love the original!! DX

Care to do a story from this century next time?