#MUSKA CASTLE IN THE SKY MOVIE#

Later, Muska shows Sheeta a dormant Laputan robot and reveals his knowledge of her secret name, which he interprets as that of a Laputan royal line, and threatens Pazu, whom she therefore orders home. Upon leaving the mines, Sheeta says that her real name is Lusheeta Toel Ul Laputa whereupon they are captured by Muska. There, they encounter the local eccentric Uncle Pomme, who informs them that Sheeta's amulet is one of the 'volucite' crystals ('Aetherium' in the American release) formerly used to keep Laputa aloft. Eventually, the two fall into a nearly-exhausted mine. The next day they are pursued by Dola's pirates, and later by Muska's soldiers. On the ground, she is received by a youth named Pazu, whose father had earlier been in search of Laputa. In the resulting struggle, Sheeta falls from the airship, only to be slowed by the amulet mid-fall.

In the story's opening, an airship carrying a girl named Sheeta and her abductor Muska is attacked by the air-pirate Dola and her sons in search of Sheeta's crystal amulet. This forced the survivors to live on the ground while the sole exception, Laputa, remains in the sky, concealed within a powerful thunderstorm. In the film's backstory, human civilizations built flying cities that were later destroyed by an unspecified catastrophe caused by people who became too proud of their power.

#MUSKA CASTLE IN THE SKY MOVIE#

The movie premiered on Cartoon Network's Toonami block on April 1, 2006, at 7:30 PM, as part of A Month of Miyazaki. The film was released on Blu-ray in North America on May 22, 2012, alongside Whisper of the Heart and The Secret World of Arrietty. Laputa was reissued on American home video in March 2010 as a tribute accompanying the home video release of Ponyo. Laputa was the second-best selling DVD from Studio Ghibli distributed by Disney in the year of its release.

As with Mononoke and Kiki, critical opinion was mixed about the new dub, but Cloris Leachman and Mark Hamill's performances as Dola and Muska drew praise. on August 16, 2005, alongside Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away.

The film was finally released on DVD and video in the U.S. After Princess Mononoke flopped financially in the United States, Laputa's release date was pushed back yet again. The Disney-produced English dub was recorded in 1998 and planned for release on video in 1999, but Disney eventually decided to release it to theaters instead. Reportedly, Carl Macek was disappointed with this early dub, which is available only on the Japanese DVD release. Streamline licensed Laputa from Shoten in late 1988 or early 1989, and was sent a print from Japan that had already been dubbed into English for use as an in-flight film by Japan Air Lines on its trans-Pacific flights. This dub, produced for showing on international flights to Japan, was created by Magnum Video Tape Dubbing and commissioned by Tokuma Shoten. In the late 1980s, an English version of Laputa was briefly shown in the United States by Streamline Pictures. Laputa: Castle in the Sky won the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 1986. The film was distributed by Toei Kabushiki Kaisha in Japan and by Disney in the United States. It is the first film produced and released by Studio Ghibli. 7:30 PM Laputa: Castle in the Sky, or simply Laputa, re-titled Castle in the Sky for release in the United States, is a 1986 animated feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

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