Castle in the Sky

A Tokuma Shoten Production

It's a gas grenade!

We're under attack!

Hold them there! You, get down on the floor!

Tear gas!

What's the hold up?

Hurry up and break down that door!

Where is she?!

Here she is!

Mama, here she is! She was hiding!

Hurry up and catch her!

Mama, I'll fall!

That's it...that's the stone!

Hurry, into the next room!

It's the Levistone!

Damn! The Levistone...

- ~Laputa~- Castle in the Sky

A Tokuma Koukai Presentation

Planning:

~~~~Yamashita Tatsumi ~~~~Ogata Hideo

Animation Director: ~~~~Tannai Tsukasa

Art Directors:

~~~~Nozaki Toshirou ~~~~Yamamoto Fumi

Music:
~~~~ Hisashi Jo

Finishing:
~~~~Yasuda Michiyo Photography:

~~~~Takahashi Hiroshi Editting: ~~~~Seyama Takeshi

Sound Director:
~~~~Shiba Shigeharu Sound Editting:

~~~~ Inoue Shuuji Sound Effects: ~~~~Satou Kazutoshi

Cast:
~~~~Hatsui Genei ~~~~Tokita Fujio ~~~~Terada Nou

Tanaka Mayumi ~~~~Yokozawa Keiko

Production:
~~~~Gentetsu ~~~~

Studio Ghibli Producer: ~~~~Takahata Isao

Original Work, Screenplay and Direction:

Miyazaki Hayao

Mister! Put in two meatballs!

Working a lot of overtime?

Business may finally be picking up again.

Still working?

Yeah.

What's that?

That's a person!

PAZU!

What are you doing up there?

What about dinner?

Boss!

A girl from the sky...

Boss, a girl from the sky...

#@% worn-out engine!

Boss, a girl...

Close the #2 valve!

Pazu, hand me a wrench.

Yes, sir!

I can't let go! You do it!

Don't keep the people down below waiting.

Yes, sir!

Keep calm...you can do it.

Yes, sir!

Brake!

How was it?

It's no use.

The silver isn't concentrated anywhere.

Digging here is useless...

Shouldn't we have dug to the east?

That place is just full of old pits.

We'll just have to do it over again,

won't we?

Yes...all over again...

That's it...

Put out the boiler fire. No overtime tonight.

Times are hard. We'll end up starving.

Pazu, oil that run-down engine.

Yes, sir!

It's no use, Mama.

We can't find anything in the dark.

You think we've searched thoroughly, eh?

There's not a trace.

We'll start again when it gets light.

Well, how do you feel?

Hey, wait! Wait, I said!

I'm Pazu. I live alone in this house.

When I'm done playing, I give them this.

I'm relieved. Anyway, you look human.

Until a little while ago,

I was worried you were an angel or something.

Thanks for saving me. I'm Sheeta.

Sheeta...that's a nice name.

I was surprised by the way

you fell out of the sky.

I see...Why do you suppose I was saved?

After all, I fell out of an airship.

You don't remember?

Say - can I see that for a minute?

This?

It's been in my family for generations.

A pretty stone, isn't it? Just a second.

Watch!

Pazu!

Looks like it wasn't the stone after all.

Pazu, hold on...

Are you okay?

Yes. And you?

I'm fine. Does it hurt?

Yes. My head hurts from Boss's fist.

Oh, yeah. The pot is boiling.

Let's go in and eat.

You can wash up over there.

There are towels, too.

Thank you.

Sheeta!

Sheeta, ready yet?

That's a photograph my father

took from an airship.

Laputa is an island floating in the sky.

An island that floats in the sky?

Yeah. They say it's just a legend...

but my father saw it!

That's the photograph he took.

Swift wrote about Laputa in 'Gulliver's Travels',

but that was just a story.

Father drew this from his memory!

There's no one living there any more.

There's supposed to be a

lot of treasure there.

But, nobody believes in it.

Father died in Sagi, looking for it.

But, my father's not a liar.

One day I'll prove it! I'll discover Laputa.

An automobile...how rare!

They're pirates.

They're the ones who attacked the airship.

They're after you?

Hurry, this way!

Good morning!

Hey! Wait!

What? I'm in a hurry!

Has a new girl come to these parts?

Baby Madge!

She came to Boss's place yesterday.

Damn! A coincidence!

They're after you, alright.

Louie! A girl's dress!

What? Disguised? You tell Mama!

...haven't seen her.

A cute girl, with dark hair in braids?

Boss! Boss!

Just about that age...

Brother! That's her!

They're pirates! They're after this girl.

Pirates! Look!

That's far enough.

We'll get her.

Pirates, huh?

The Dora Clan.

Leave us alone. We're just a poor lot.

Mom!

Escape out the back!

I want to fight, too!

They have weapons.

But...

You'll be a good boy, won't you?

Protect her.

In any case, we'll get her somehow.

Think you're man enough?

Settle this with your fists.

All right.

Do it, brother!

Oh, my...show him, Duffy!

Wow...

And who sewed that shirt?

Brother, don't give up!

Go! Go!

They think they can fool me, do they?

Follow them!

Get on!

Let's go!

Pazu - taking the day off?

We're being chased.

It's the Dora Clan.

Pirates?

Give us a ride to the next city,

and we'll go to the police.

All right. Help stoke it!

Stupid sons of mine...hurry up and get in!

But the girl's in there.

She snuck out the back door. Get moving.

Wait!

Pazu, they're on to you!

Can't we go any faster?

She's pretty old.

Let's change places!

Mama, I'm going to fall!

More steam...they're gaining on us!

Faster!

Sheeta, come here!

Take care of the stoking!

Don't give up!

Push! Keep pushing!

Hold it!

They won't get away.

Don't just sit there...

push these things off the track!

There...running fine!

I'll do it.

We'll do it together.

Wait!

It's them, Mama. What'll we do?

I'm not giving up just yet! Let's move!

We're blocked. It's the army.

Hey, please help out these kids.

They're being chased by pirates.

Farewell!

Wait!

Stop! Stop, or I'll shoot!

It's an armored tank!

I don't care! Ram it!

Sheeta, what's the matter?!

Don't ask!

They'll fall!

Be quiet. Watch closely!

We're floating!

See that? The power of the Levistone!

It WAS the stone after all! Amazing!

It's okay. This way we'll go to the bottom.

AMAZING! I want it!

Fire!

Excellent! I WILL get my hands on it!

It's going out.

Oh, wait...!

It did that when you came floating down, Sheeta.

The entrance looks so small.

I hope nothing bad happens

to your boss or the engineer.

It's okay. Miners are tough. Let's go.

Since long ago, the mountain's

been riddled with mine shafts.

Here.

Oh, good. I'm awfully hungry.

There's an apple and two candies for later.

Your bag is like magic.

It has everything in it.

Gondoa?

That's in the northern mountains, isn't it?

Yes. When my parents died,

they left me the house and farm.

I managed alone, somehow.

You were kidnapped by

those men with dark glasses?

The same men we saw?

Who could it be...with such an army...

Both Dora and the 'dark glasses'

want to get the stone...

I had no idea there was such a

mysterious power in this stone.

It has been handed down through my family,

since times long past.

Mother gave it to me when she died,

telling me never to show it or give it to strangers.

So, we're both orphans.

Forgive me for getting you

mixed up in my troubles, Pazu.

Don't worry. When you fell from the sky,

my heart was pounding.

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