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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 |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time
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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.