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Tales from Earthsea (film)

Tales from Earthsea
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Japanese theatrical release poster
Directed by Gorō Miyazaki
Produced by Toshio Suzuki
Tomohiko Ishii
Screenplay by Gorō Miyazaki
Keiko Niwa
Story by Gorō Miyazaki
Based on Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Starring Bunta Sugawara
Junichi Okada
Aoi Teshima
Yuko Tanaka
Music by Tamiya Terashima
Edited by Takeshi Seyama
Production
company
Distributed by Toho
Release date
  • July 29, 2006 (2006-07-29)
Running time
115 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Budget $22 million
Box office $68,673,565

Tales from Earthsea (Japanese: ゲド戦記 Hepburn: Gedo Senki?, literally Ged's War Chronicles) is a 2006 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Gorō Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film is based on a combination of plots and characters from the first four books of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu; however, the film's title is named from the collection of short stories, Tales from Earthsea, made in 2001. The plot was "entirely different" according to the author Ursula K. Le Guin, who told director Gorō Miyazaki, "It is not my book. It is your movie. It is a good movie", although she later expressed her disappointment with the end result. The film is also inspired by the manga The Journey of Shuna by Hayao Miyazaki. A manga adaptation of the film has been published in Japan.

A war galley is caught in a storm at sea. The ship's weatherworker is distressed to realize he has lost the power to control the wind and waves, but is more so when he sees two dragons fighting above the clouds, during which one is killed by the other—an unprecedented and impossible occurrence.


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