Laputa - Castle In The Sky (DVD)

'Laputa- Castle in the Sky' was made in 1986 by the legendary Japanese animation studio 'Studio Ghibli'. As with all of the Studio Ghibli films released on DVD in the UK, it features both the dubbed version and the subbed version. The dubbed cast features the voice talents of Mark Hamill, Cloris Leachman, Anna Paquin and James Van Der Beek but more on this later. Synopsis: The film starts with an airship being pursued by pirates. However, in a bid to escape from both her captors and the pirates, the main female character (Sheeta) falls from the airship and into the sky below. To her surprise though, a pendant that she carries with her at all times emits a ...  Read the complete review

'Laputa; Castle in the Sky' was released in the year I was born, so I came across it as a child, and remember liking it, but not much else. About a year back I finally got hold of the DVD and suddenly it all came flooding back, and its clear that Studio Ghibli really set the standard with this little gem, being the first film they released. In a quaint mining town, Pazu, an orphan boy, finds Sheeta flaoting above a mine shaft, apprarntly suspended there by the beautiful blue crystal she wears around her neck. Kind hearted Paze takes her in immediately, but finds there is more to Sheeta as she is immediately hunted down by the millitary and a ...  Read the complete review

Made by Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle) Latputa - Castle in the Sky is Hayao Miyazaki's third feature film. Originally released in 1986 in Japan, more recently it has been dubbed in English by Disney and re-released in 2006. The story revolves around the myth of Laputa, a floating island (the idea for which was taken from Gulliver's Travels). Sheeta, a young girl, has inherited a mysterious crystal necklace which everyone seems to want. Escaping her pursuers she is befriended by Pazu, an orphan boy, whose father was ridiculed for his quest to find Laputa. It eventually emerges that Sheeta, the crystal and Latuta are all linked, and Pazu ...  Read the complete review

A studio ghibli movie created by the ever popular Hayao Myazaki who created such movies as spirited away, princess mononoke and howls movie castle in recent years. Laputa castle in the sky was originally released 1n 1986 in japan and comes with both an English subtitle an dubbed track, both i think are equally good, the movie lasts for 124 minutes or just over 2 hours long, this dvd contains special features and previews form other studio ghibli movies also. Most of which are suitable for most viewers, these movies are sometimes described as the Disney of japan. The story like most studio ghibli movies starts with a young heroine, but this one in ...  Read the complete review