Studio Ghibli's Nausicaä Stage Adaptation Returns to Japan

If you live in Japan, it is a great time to be a Studio Ghibli fan. Prepare to feel serious envy if not.

The July Grand Kabuki performance will feature a stage adaptation of the 1984 film and 1982 comic of the same name by Hayao Miyazaki. Since Japan is not currently allowing any tourist visitors, it is hoped that fans elsewhere in the world will get an online stream of the production.

There is a clip from the first staging of the Valley of the Wind Kabuki. Look at the little girl in the scene when she befriends the Ohm.

The lead of the show, Kikunosuke Onoe V, will be returning to the show, but this time in the role of the Princess of Torumekia. In the July Grand Kabuki run, Yonekichi Nakamura V will step into the part of Nausica. The Battle of the White Witch will be performed at Tokyo's Kabuki-za Theatre in July.

The stage run through Japan's major cities ended recently, and later this year the theme park will open in the Aici Prefecture. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California is the first of its kind in North America and includes items that have never been displayed outside of Japan.

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