There’s no Ashitaka and San (Nausicaä is a little bit of both, really), but the Miyazaki film that made Studio Ghibli possible is still one of his most romantic, full of ruins of ages long past and awe for the way the world, and we, might remake ourselves. —SS
What really makes “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,” is the secondary world Nausicaä explores, though. It is still one of Studio Ghibli’s (and yes, technically it predates the studio but only just) most fascinating depictions of nature as an undiscovered country: vibrant, mysterious, evolving, and yet also wounded by human interference. There’s no Ashitaka and San (Nausicaä is a little bit of both, really), but the Miyazaki film that made Studio Ghibli possible is still one of his most romantic, full of ruins of ages long past and awe for the way the world, and we, might remake ourselves. —SS