Nausicaä (Sumi Shimamoto) is a princess of her people about a 1,000 years after a (probably, definitely nuclear) calamity brought human civilization low.
Nausicaä (Sumi Shimamoto) is a princess of her people about a 1,000 years after a (probably, definitely nuclear) calamity brought human civilization low. Survivors like her community, the titular Valley of the Wind, live in pockets not yet encroached upon by the toxic spores and dense jungles of alien flora and giant insectoid fauna that cover the Earth. This setting provides the perfect sandbox for Miyazaki’s imaginative powers. There’s a high fantasy mix of caravans and windmills and the stuff of fairytales combined with the exhilaration of flight — because obviously Nausicaä has a glider and the neighboring warrior Tolmekians have giant bomber-like planes — which Miyazaki treats as an art unto itself.