In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster.
Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging
beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates
mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. At the
edge of the sea, tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies
the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500Â citizens, a nation given
fragile protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes, and
home to Nausicaa.
Author Biography
Hayao Miyazaki is the prominent director of many popular animated feature
films. He is also the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the award-winning Japanese
animation studio and production company behind worldwide hits such as PRINCESS
MONONOKE, HOWL'SÂ MOVING CASTLE and SPIRITEDÂ AWAY.