Ghibli’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Kabuki Adaptation Returns

It’s a good time to be a Studio Ghibli fan if you happen to at present reside in Japan. If not, learn on and put together to really feel severe envy.

Crunchyroll stories that this summer season’s July Grand Kabuki efficiency will characteristic Walt Disney Studios’ stage adaptation of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, impressed by Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved 1984 movie and 1982 manga. Hopefully followers elsewhere on the earth will no less than get an on-line stream, just like the manufacturing’s final staging in 2019 did—especifically since Japan is not at present permitting any vacationer guests.

Here’s a clip from the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Kabuki from its first staging. Look on the little Nausicaä within the flashback when she befriends the Ohm!

Original Nausicaä lead Kikunosuke Onoe V will probably be returning to the present, however this time within the position of antagonist Kushana, Princess of Torumekia. In the July Grand Kabuki run, Yonekichi Nakamura V will step into the a part of Nausicaä. Nestled amongst extra conventional okabuki choices on this system, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Volume 1: The Battle of the White Witch will probably be carried out at Tokyo’s Kabuki-za Theatre from July 4-29.

Recently Toho’s Spirited Away simply closed a profitable stage run by way of Japan’s main cities and later this yr Ghibli’s long-awaited theme park will open within the Aici Prefecture. Here within the states, followers can go to a Miyazaki exhibit on the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California—the primary of its type in North America, together with objects which have by no means been displayed exterior of Japan earlier than—till June 1.

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