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Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta
(Laputa: The Castle in the Sky)
 
 

 

Credits, Figures & Other Information

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General Information

 

Release Information

Japan

  • Version: Japanese dialogue
  • Opening Date: August 2, 1986
  • Opening Screens: 103
  • Showing Period: 42 days
  • Admissions: 774 271
  • Film Rental: ¥583 million


United States & Canada

  • Premiere: Feb 4, 2000;
    New York International Children's Film Festival;
    new BV English version was shown
  • Opening Date: Unknown

Hong Kong

  • Version: Non-BV English dub with Chinese sub, followed by Cantonese dub
  • Opening Date: June 26, 1987 (E-dub)
    July 31, 1987 (C-dub)
  • Showing Period: 77 days (total)
  • Film Grosses: HK$13.1 million (total)
  • (4 minutes were cut)

 

Original Staff Credits for Japanese Version
 
Producer :  Isao Takahata
Executive Producer :  Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Planning :  Tatsumi Yamashita  Hideo Ogata
Original Story,
Written &
Directed by
:  Hayao Miyazaki
   (Serialized in monthly Animage, published by Tokuma Shoten)
Music by :  Joe Hisaishi
Ending Song :  "Kimi wo Nosete" (Carrying You)
   Lyrics by Hayao Miyazaki
   Written by Joe Hisaishi
   Performed by Azumi Inoue
Animation Supervisor :  Tsukasa Niwauchi
Head of Key Animators :  Yoshinori Kanada
Key Animation :  Masako Shinohara  Masaaki Endo  Makiko Futaki
   Michiyo Sakurai  Noriko Moritomo  Atsuko Otani
   Kazuyuki Kobayashi  Megumi Kagawa  Masahiro Maeda
   Tadashi Fukuda  Hirotsugu Kawasaki  Kitaro Kosaka
   Shinji Otsuka  Toshio Kawaguchi  Katsuya Kondo
   Yasuhiro Nakura  Osamu Nabeshima  Toyoaki Emura
   Kazuhide Tomonaga
Animation Checkers :  Naoshi Ozawa  Yasuko Tachiki
In-Between :  Kenji Kobayashi  Eiko Miyamoto  Eiichiro Hirata
   Takashi Honmochi  Mika Sugai  Kyoko Nakano
   Yue Takamine  Sinji Morohashi  Keiichiro Hattori
   Kazukisa Nagai  Takao Yoshino  Hiroomi Yamakawa
   (etc)
In-Between Assistance :  Studio Toto  ·  Oh Production  ·  Kusama Art  · 
Shindo Production  ·  Studio Fantasia  ·  Visual '80  · 
Studio Gallop  ·  Studio Kyuma  ·  (etc)
Art Direction :  Toshiro Nozaki  Nizo Yamamoto
Background :  Mutsuo Ozeki  Kazuhiro Kinoshita  Nasaki Yoshizaki
   Kazu Hisamura  Kumiko Iijima  Kiyomi Ota
   Yamako Ishikawa
Harmony Process :  Noriko Takaya
Special Effects :  Gou Abe  Shinji Teraoka
Color Design :  Michiyo Yasuda
Ink & Paint Checker :  Homi Ogiwara
Ink & Paint :  Chiharu Mizuma  Noriko Ogawa  Hiromi Nagamine
   Emiko Ishii  Masako Nabeya  Yukiko Sakai
   (etc)
Camera :  Takahashi Production
   Hirokata Takahashi  (etc)
Editor :  Takeshi Seyama  Yoshihiro Kasahara
Sound Director :  Shigeharu Shiba
Sound Engineer :  Shuji Inoue
Sound Effects :  E & M Planning Center
   Kazutoshi Sato  Hironori Ono
Publicity Producer :  Masaya Tokuyama
Sound Effect Production :  Omnibus Promotion
Recording Studio :  Tokyo T.V. Center
Lab :  IMAGICA
Assistants to the Director :  Tsutomo Iida  Tetsu Kimura  Norihiko Sudo
Production Manager :  Naoyuki Oshikiri
Production :  Toru Hara
   Studio Ghibli
A Production of :  Tokuma Publishing Co., Ltd.
(full staff credit in Japanese)

 

Additional Staff Credits for English (BV) version
 
Voice Direction :  Jack Fletcher
(...)

 

Casts


Japanese Voices

Pazu:   Mayumi Tanaka
Sheeta:   Keiko Yokozawa
Dola:   Kotoe Hatsui
Muska:   Nou Terada
Uncle Pom:   Fujio Tokita
General:   Ichiro Nagai
Mentor:   Hiroshi Ito
Okami:   Machiko Washio
Shalulu:   Takumi Kamiyama
Lui:   Yoshito Yasuhara
Anli:   Sukekiyo Kameyama
Old Engineer:   Ryuji Kai
Madge:   Tarako
 
Eken Mine   Reiko Suzuki
Tomomichi Nishimura   Nobuyuki Furuta
Masashi Sugahara   Toshihiko Seki
Megumi Hayashibara   (etc)
(full voice credits in Japanese)

English (BV) Voices

(Final version may not use
the exact character name)
Pazu:   James Van Der Beek
Sheeta:   Anna Paquin
Muska:   Mark Hamill
Dola:   Cloris Leachman
 
Mandy Patinkin   Michael McShane
(...)

 

Award List

 


Note: The English romanization of some Japanese names may be inaccurate.


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