Japanese Anime - Wed 27 August 2008

From 10:05 pm this Wednesday, 27 August 2008, SBS is screening Miyazaki Hayao’s anime Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

A thousand years have passed since the violent collapse of industrial civilisation. Small pockets of humanity survive on the fringes of a vast polluted forest, the Toxic Jungle, inhabited by giant mutated insects, of which the Ohmu, are the greatest threat. The plant life and the spores from the jungle are poisonous to humans. Anyone who ventures into the jungle must wear breathing masks to protect their lungs.

The Valley of the Wind is a small community of humans protected by sea breezes from the toxic spores. Their young princess, Nausicaä, tries to understand, rather than destroy the Toxic Jungle.

Dubbed in English.