Castle in the Sky
One day, a girl came down from the sky…
Country
Production
Budget
$3 000 000
Box office
$26 083 144
Director
Actors
Keiko Yokozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Minori Terada, Kotoe Hatsui, Fujio Tokita, Ichiro Nagai, Hiroshi Ito, Machiko Washio, Takumi Kamiyama, Yoshito Yasuhara
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Hirokata Takahashi
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- Hayao Miyazaki borrowed the word “Laputa” from Jonathan Swift (“Gulliver’s Travels”). Swift, in turn, likely took it from Spanish, where it means “prostitute.” Therefore, in Spanish-speaking countries and the United States, the film was shown without the offensive word in the title.
- Studio Ghibli was founded by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata specifically to create this film.
- When creating the image of the mining town, Hayao Miyazaki drew on his memories of visiting Wales. The director, a former trade union leader, was particularly impressed by stories of worker protests against mine closures, which are reflected in the film.
- The fox-squirrels – squirrel foxes from Laputa – first appeared in Miyazaki’s work, “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.”
- The robot from Laputa is identical to the robot that previously appeared under Miyazaki’s involvement in “Lupin III,” in the television episode “Farewell, Beloved Lupin.” A full-size model of this robot is located on the roof of the Studio Ghibli Museum in Tokyo.
- Hayao Miyazaki borrowed the word “Laputa” from Jonathan Swift (“Gulliver’s Travels”). Swift, in turn, likely took it from Spanish, where it means “prostitute.” Therefore, in Spanish-speaking countries and the United States, the film was screened without the offensive word in the title.
- The name "Sita" and a number of legends used in the film are borrowed from Indian folklore.
- The fox-squirrels—squirrel-foxes from Laputa—first appeared in Miyazaki's work "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind".
- The Laputa robot is identical to a robot that previously appeared in "Lupin III" (with Miyazaki's participation) in the TV series "Bye Bye, Pretty Lupin". A full-scale model of this robot is located on the roof of the Studio Ghibli Museum in Tokyo.
- Hayao Miyazaki borrowed the word "Laputa" from Jonathan Swift ("Gulliver's Travels"). Swift, in turn, likely took it from Spanish, where it means "whore". For this reason, the film was screened in Spanish-speaking countries and the US without the indecent word in the title.
- When creating the image of the miners' town, Hayao Miyazaki drew on his memories of visiting Wales. As a former union leader, the director was particularly impressed by stories of workers' protests against mine closures, which were reflected in the film.
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Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
