A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Score
Joe Hisaishi's theme lives rent-free in heads worldwide.
Direction
Miyazaki's first Ghibli — already a perfect vision.
Director
Hayao Miyazaki
Keiko Yokozawa
Sheeta (voice)
Mayumi Tanaka
Pazu (voice)
Minori Terada
Muska (voice)
Kotoe Hatsui
Dola (voice)
Fujio Tokita
Uncle Pomme (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Shogun Mouro (voice)
Hiroshi Ito
Oyakata (voice)
Machiko Washio
Okami (voice)
Takuzō Kamiyama
Charles (voice)
Yoshito Yasuhara
Louis (voice)
Sukekiyo Kameyama
Henri (voice)
Eken Mine
Underling (voice)
TARAKO
Madge (voice)
Masashi Sugawara
Underling (voice)
Reiko Suzuki
Sheeta's Grandmother (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Laputa' name comes from Gulliver's Travels, but Miyazaki almost changed it for Spanish releases since it sounds like 'the whore' in Spanish slang. He kept it anyway.
This film's visual vocabulary — floating islands, impossible machinery, rusted utopias — directly inspired everything from Final Fantasy to Nausicaä to modern gacha games draining wallets worldwide.
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