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Tales from Earthsea, from Studio Ghibli, is the first anime film adaptation of any part of the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin. In the past, many directors, including Hayao Miyazaki, [5] had tried to adapt Earthsea for film, but were disapproved by the author herself. [6]
Tales from Earthsea: Directed by Gorô Miyazaki. With Jun'ichi Okada, Aoi Teshima, Bunta Sugawara, Yûko Tanaka. In a mythical land, a man and a young boy investigate a series of unusual occurrences.
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- Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
- Gorô Miyazaki
- 2006-07-29
Tales From Earthsea - Official Trailer. In the land of Earthsea, crops are failing and livestock dying. Two dragons appear from the storm clouds and devour each other - an omen of impending...
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In the land of Earthsea, a mysterious force threatens to plunge humanity into destruction and chaos. A powerful wizard named Sparrowhawk seeks the source of his world's imbalance, and along the...
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- Goro Miyazaki
- PG-13
- Adventure, Fantasy, Anime
- Advertising Slogans
- Plot
- Characters
- Behind The Scenes
- Trailer
- Soundtrack
- Reaction and Box Office
- Non-Japanese Releases
- Voice Cast
- Credits
The promotional posters contained the following slogans: 1. "What you can't see."(見えぬものこそ。) 2. "I thought I could live without my father."(父さえいなければ、生きられると思った。) 3. "In the past, there was one person and one dragon."(かつて人と竜はひとつだった。)
Losing the Way
The movie begins with a war galley caught in a storm at sea. The ship's weatherworker is distressed to realize that he has lost the power to control the wind and waves, but is even more disturbed when he observes two dragons fighting above the clouds where one of them is eventually killed. Shortly thereafter the King of Enlad, already troubled by tales of drought and pestilence in the land, receives news both of the strange omen at sea and of the disappearance of Prince Arren (the King's son)...
Chains
Arren, not having any direction in Life, accompanies Sparrowhawk to the town of Hort. When he's left to explore the town alone, he suddenly becomes scared as if something is following him. As Arren runs away, he sees a girl fleeing from slave hunters. He intervenes and saves her, though his "bravery" is but a reflection of his death-wish and not truly a heroic act. The girl recognizes this at once and runs away from him and towards a woman's voice calling her name Therru. That evening, Arren...
True Name
Hare, the head slaver, reports back to Lord Cob, a powerful wizard and the ruler of Hort, and almost pays with his life for the loss of Cob's slaves, until he tells Cob that Sparrowhawk freed them. Lord Cob orders him to bring Sparrowhawk to the castle. At the farm, Sparrowhawk reveals that he is investigating the cause of the Balance being upset and returns to Hort where he discovers Arren's lost sword in a shop. Sparrowhawk disguises his face when Hare is near and, thereby, avoids capture....
1. Bunta Sugawara (Japanese), Timothy Dalton(English) 2. A famous, powerful, wise, and noble sorcerer of Earthsea, known as the Archmage, who is trying to solve the mystery on why the world's Balance is collapsing. He acts as a father-figure to Arren.
1. Junichi Okada (Japanese), Matt Levin(English) 2. A a seventeen-year-old boy who is followed by a shadow due to his fear of death and the darkness in his heart caused by the collapse of the Balance of the world itself.
1. Aoi Teshima (Japanese), Blaire Restaneo(English) 2. A burn victim who, like Prince Arren, is also seventeen. She was abused and abandoned by her birth parents until Tenar took her in. She originally thought of Arren as a monster after he saved her from Hare, because he seemed to lack any respect for life, but came to fall in love with him when she saw his compassion.
Origins
Hayao Miyazaki is longtime fan of the Earthsea saga. The series, renowned for its worldbuilding, greatly influenced Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Howl's Moving Castle. Studio Ghibli had sought to acquire the rights to Earthsea for years, but were denied by the author Ursula K. Le Guin until she saw My Neighbor Totoro. In 2003, following Ghibli's international recognition with Spirited Away, Le Guin personally contacted the Japanese studio and asked if they would be interested in adap...
Production
Production officially began in September 2005. Hayao had no intention of getting involved in the production and therefore left Gorô Miyazaki with complete freedom. The young director decided to document the production with a personal blog and a production log. For the introduction to his blog, he explained the message he wished to convey in the film: “What is it to live properly now?" On his diary, Gorô touches upon Studio Ghibli becoming independent from its former parent company Tokuma Shot...
Dubbing
On Gorô's diary entry dated May 1, 2006, "From Saturday of last week, post-recording, which gives voices to the characters in the film, commenced. Last time, I wrote about the main character Arren and the animation director Mr. Inamura. This time I'm going to start with Junichi Okada, who plays Arren's voice. Mr. Okada's voice recording went very smoothly and we were able to finish recording half of the total [lines for him] already. This was his first experience with animation post-recording...
The three-minute Japanese trailer was first shown in Japanese cinemas starting Saturday February 24, 2006. It was aired on NTV on 23 February 2006 (the day the trailer was completed.)The trailers were made by Keiichi Itagaki, who has been responsible for trailers for all the other Ghibli films up to now.Theo Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin's son, viewed the Japanese trailer and said about it "The images are really beautiful. The song too, it's not like something from Hollywood, but felt really like Ghi...Tales from Earthsea (Image Album) (ゲド戦記歌集手嶌葵 Gedo Senki Kashuu Teshima Aoi) is a 10-track album published by Yahama Music Communications on July 12, 2006. The album contains several singles by Aoi Teshima. Tales from Earthsea (Original Soundtrack) (ゲド戦記サウンドトラック , Gedo Senki Saundotorakku) is an album that was overseen by Tamiya Terashima and was re...
The film reached No.1 at the Japanese Box Office on its opening week with a gross of over 900 million yen, or approximately US$7.7 million, pushing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest to second place and became the number one movie in the country for five weeks, until it was pushed out of the top spot when X-Men: The Last Standwas released. ...
Licensing problems are in the way of a North American release of Ged Senki, with the Sci-Fi Channel, which released the miniseries Legend of Earthseain 2004, currently holding the rights to the property. Under the current situation, the film cannot be released earlier than 2009, when the miniseries is called off, in which case Sci-Fi's rights expir...
Additional Voices
1. Original: Aika, Emi Chikuno, Takashi Hirota, Kōji Hosogai, Katsuhisa Houki, Satoi Iinuma, Masaru Ikeda, Naoto Kaji, Keishi Kamikawaji, Misuzu Kamino, Yasuyuki Kase, Emiri Katō, Eriko Kigawa, Yūichi Nakamura, Rintarou Nishi, Nobito Nishioka, Kazumasa Sagawa, Shiro Saito, Osamu Saka, Akiyoshi Sakurai, Maiko Sano, Jun Sato, Teruo Seki, Akihiko Shimizu, Keigo Shimizu, Tetsu Shiratori, Ooki Sugiyama, Katsuaki Takahashi, Koujirou Takahashi, Tomomi Takaya, Sueko Takita, Katsuhiko Tamura, Akio Tan...
Goro's Diaries
Goro credited Shinichi Takai for helping design and operate his Director's Diary and Production diary. Takai also designed the official Studio Ghibliwebsite. His entry dated June 28, 2006, stated the following: "Without Mr. Takai's deep knowledge and skills regarding the Internet, Studio Ghibli would not have been able to operate the site in this way. We would also like to thank all the staff of Forecast Communications who have set up the server of this site. In particular, Yuko Dozono, who w...
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, and director Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill), comes an animated f...
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Tales from Earthsea (English Language) From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, and director Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill), comes an animated fantasy epic based on the classic book series by Ursula K. Le Guin.
