LAPUTA:THE CASTLE IN THE SKY
Castle in the Sky is an aerial adventure built around a material object: Sheeta’s pendant. The question of what it can do drives a chase that draws in Pazu, pirates and military power.
Why the object matters
The distributor’s synopsis introduces Pazu as an engineer’s apprentice who encounters Sheeta descending from the sky. Their search for Laputa links the pendant to a legendary floating castle. MADB records the Japanese release as 2 August 1986, with original story, screenplay and direction credited to Hayao Miyazaki.
Sources: GKIDS: Castle in the Sky · Media Arts Database (MADB), National Center for Art Research · Selected/processed by GIZUMO
Watch the competing uses of technology
An editorial lens is to compare machines as tools for movement, work or domination. Ask what changes when the same discovery is treated as a home, an inheritance or a resource to seize. This gives the adventure a more specific point of comparison with Princess Mononoke than the broad label “fantasy”.
Sources: GKIDS: Castle in the Sky
Titles and editions
The original Japanese title is Tenku no Shiro Laputa. English catalogues may foreground either “Laputa” or “Castle in the Sky”; use the director and original release date to confirm the work. The GKIDS page describes an additional English audio mix on its listed edition, so audio-version details are worth checking instead of assuming every disc is identical.
Sources: GKIDS: Castle in the Sky · Media Arts Database (MADB), National Center for Art Research · Selected/processed by GIZUMO
Editorial sources, scope and rights
The English reading guide and its stated sources only. Original source dates, rights, identity limitations and live-status fields remain separate.
Original GIZUMO editorial text and limited factual paraphrase. Linked reference pages retain their own rights; the source-data licence below does not license their text or images. No source photographs, film stills, scans or maps are reproduced.
- Media Arts Database (MADB), National Center for Art Research · Selected/processed by GIZUMO
Identity and factual fields in the preserved dated source record; no new live-status verification
- GKIDS: Castle in the Sky
Premise and explicitly stated work/edition information
Preserved source record and metadata
Original title: 天空の城ラピュタ English title supplied by the source. Selected creator credit: Hayao Miyazaki Original selected credit: [原作・脚本・監督]宮崎駿 Publisher/distributor source credit: 東映 Source publication date: 1986-08-02 Source metadata modified: 2024-11-25 11:21:38 (timezone not supplied) Prior reviewed selected credit retained from exact text in ma:originalWorkCreator; not an exhaustive staff list. Publisher means schema:publisher, not animation studio. English credits are retained only for exact matching source text. Source: MADB, National Center for Art Research, pinned official release 1.2.20. Original MADB metadata is freely reusable under its dataset-specific permission statement; GIZUMO selected and processed these metadata fields. No complete archive, covers, film stills, characters or underlying-work rights are claimed.
- creator
- Hayao Miyazaki | [原作・脚本・監督]宮崎駿
- publisher
- Toei | 東映
- release Year
- 1986
- original Title
- 天空の城ラピュタ
- source Date Published
- 1986-08-02
- source Modified Text
- 2024-11-25 11:21:38 (timezone not supplied)
Media Arts Database (MADB), National Center for Art Research · Selected/processed by GIZUMO