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When Nausicaä was first released as an English dub in the U.S. in 1985 it was drastically cut down to 1 hour and 35 minutes and titled Warriors of the Wind. Writer and Director Hayao Miyazaki was still so upset by the truncated "Warriors of the Wind" version of Nausicaä that when Harvey Weinstein approached him to discuss the distribution to his following film La princesa Mononoke (1997) and insisted on a similar heavily cut version of the movie, Miyazaki angrily left the meeting. Several days later, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki sent a katana sword to Weinstein's office with "NO CUTS" embedded into its blade. The movie was later released in the U.S. in its uncut version. During a later interview, Miyazaki commented on the incident by smiling and stating, "I defeated him." Nausicaä was his only film to suffer heavy editing on first release. In 1995 the US rights returned to Miyazaki and he made a distribution deal with Disney. In 2003 a new English dub with Patrick Stewart and Uma Thurman was released in the uncut 117 minute (1hr 57min) version. - James LaPierre WUD Films

After the heavily re-written and edited 1985 release of this movie in the United States and Europe (as "Warriors of the Wind"), which substantially changed the film, in addition to cutting nearly twenty-five minutes of footage, Writer and Director Hayao Miyazaki was hesitant to release any of his movies outside of Japan, Miyazaki demanded that any new licensor for his films be contractually bound to do no edits whatsoever aside from a straight translation and dub. Disney (who bought the rights to all of Miyazaki's movies except El castillo de Cagliostro (1979)) has honored this stipulation.

Nausicaä is the name of a princess in Homer's Odyssey, Book Six and means "burner of ships".

The lack of color fidelity used in specific versions gives many people the impression that Nausicaä flies around in a miniskirt with no other piece of clothing under it. This is not the case; she's wearing pants roughly the same color as her skin, and the "skirt" is the lower part of her coat.

Adapted from the first two volumes of the original manga, which Hayao Miyazaki wrote and drew for Animage from February 1982 through March 1994. He took breaks from working on the manga and worked on the earlier anime movies he did. The manga is longer and more complex than the movie, featuring many more characters and places.

Hayao Miyazaki: [flying] Nausicaä flies on her Mehve in many scenes of the the movie, and gives Mehve lessons during the credits.