Program Series: Hayao Miyazaki

Castle in the Sky

Sheeta is being pursued by sky pirates and government agents for her mysterious blue pendant in Studio Ghibli’s debut feature Castle in the Sky. The film bears some of Miyazaki’s signature motifs: a young girl awakening to her powers, an aesthetic that combines the industrial with the organic, and of course, high-flying derring-do.

Fri, Apr 8, 2022 | 7:30pm PT

David Geffen Theater
Castle in the Sky

Sheeta is being pursued by sky pirates and government agents for her mysterious blue pendant in Studio Ghibli’s debut feature Castle in the Sky. The film bears some of Miyazaki’s signature motifs: a young girl awakening to her powers, an aesthetic that combines the industrial with the organic, and of course, high-flying derring-do. Such is the Ghibli affection for this film that one of its iconic robot sentinels stands guard at the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka in Tokyo. A bravura piece of hand-drawn animation, Castle in the Sky is one of Miyazaki’s most visually rich films.

DIRECTOR: Hayao Miyazaki. WRITTEN BY: Hayao Miyazaki. CAST: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui, Minori Terada. 1986. 124 min. Japan. Color. Japanese (subtitled).... 35mm. New subtitled print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, with special thanks to Studio Ghibli.

All film screenings in the Hayao Miyazaki Encores series are available here.  

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

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