What is wrong with “Warriors of the Wind”?
New World Pictures felt it could only be marketed as a kid’s action movie, so they cut out about a quarter of the movie (the parts they felt were “slow moving”) and garbled the storyline in the process. Nausicaä was changed to “Princess Zandra”. The voice actors and actresses (see next paragraph for a note about June Foray) said later that they were never told what the story was about and so the acting was substandard. Miyazaki was horrified when he found out what they had done to his film, and Ghibli asks everyone to forget that this version ever existed. Fortunately, New World Video’s rights to Nausicaä expired in 1995.Regarding June Foray, there was a rumor that she was the voice of “Princess Zandra”. Emru Townsend, a subscriber of the Miyazaki Mailing List, finally sent a video tape of “Warriors” to Ms. Foray so that she could confirm whether or not that was her voice. She denied that it was her voice in that role.
New World Pictures felt it could only be marketed as a kid’s action movie, so they cut out about a quarter of the movie (the parts they felt were “slow moving”) and garbled the storyline in the process. Nausicaä was changed to “Princess Zandra”. The voice actors and actresses (see next paragraph for a note about June Foray) said later that they were never told what the story was about and so the acting was substandard. Miyazaki was horrified when he found out what they had done to his film, and Ghibli asks everyone to forget that this version ever existed. Fortunately, New World Video’s rights to Nausicaä expired in 1995. Regarding June Foray, there was a rumor that she was the voice of “Princess Zandra”. Emru Townsend, a subscriber of the Miyazaki Mailing List, finally sent a video tape of “Warriors” to Ms. Foray so that she could confirm whether or not that was her voice. She denied that it was her voice in that role.
