In 1984, Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan’s greatest living animators took a journey to a Welsh mining village. There, he saw first hand the last days of a dying industry, and of the effect its collapse ...

Nice idea? Laputa: a nation governed by scientists. (Gulliver’s Travels, Leipzig Edition, 1910) Can you miss a fictional place? I do, thanks to the recent US government shutdown. The episode made me ...

"Castle of Cagliostro" was the first film anime legend Hayao Miyazaki ever directed, and "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" the first he wrote on his own, but "Castle in the Sky Laputa" was the ...

Mount Aso is a volcano in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu. On one ridge of its caldera, which is one of the largest in the world, can be found a narrow path which in the right weather conditions seems to ...

Following cues from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the first animated movie from Studio Ghibli back in 1986 was Castle in the Sky. While other Ghibli works tend to overshadow this film, it is ...

The first film from the unrivalled Studio Ghibli is Hayao Miyazaki at his finest, with a stirring adventure told with care and invention making a welcome appearance on Blu-ray. Laputa: Castle in the ...

In celebration of airing the classic “Laputa: Castle in the Sky”, Nippon TV revealed that one of the characters in the film was modeled after Miyazaki’s mother. The bit of trivia was revealed through ...

Studio Ghibli movie "Castle in the Sky"Flying stone" that comes out in the item is an item that teaches the place of Laputa which is the legendary existence in the work, and it is emitting blue light ...

Telly addict Andrew Collins casts his critical eye over New Worlds (above), Klondike, The Trip to Italy, Endeavour and Monkey Planet Last 24 hours Last 24 hours The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review: 'so ...