In this episode of the Spiraken Manga Review, Xan continues the Month of Totoros Tanukis and Tenacious Children with his usual assistants of mayhem: Rufus, Baz & the New Guy. Despite one co-host's attempts at de-railing the situation, Our hosts review arguably one of Hayao Miyazaki's best films of all time: The Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic Environmental film, Kaze no Tani no Naushika/ Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind starring (for the dub anyway) Alison Lohman, Shia Labeouf, Uma Thurman, Patrick Stewart, Chris Sarandon, Frank Welker, Mark Hamill and Edward James Olmos. For the original Japanese it is starring Sumi Shimamoto, Yoji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Lemasa Kayumi, Ichino Nagai, Kohei Miyauchi, Mugihito, and Goro Naya This episode goes over the various setbacks and problems over getting the original version of this film released in English, the religious undertones of the film, and Baz constantly pimping out Crackle.com. Please send us any comments concerns and ideas on how to make this podcast better. Let us know so we can do something about it. Also check out the facebook fan group Spiraken Movie Review, And finally, listen to the primary podcast, The Spiraken Manga Review and check out Xan's sidekickery on the fightbait.com podcast Hope you enjoy. Music For Episode: Intro Music -Tori no Hito by Joe Hisashi ( Kaze no Tani no Naushika OST), Background Music -Kaze no Tani no Naushika by Joe Hisashi ( Kaze no Tani no Naushika OST),Background Music - Moewe by Joe Hisashi ( Kaze no Tani no Naushika OST),Background Music - Ohmu To Kouryu by Joe Hisashi ( Kaze no Tani no Naushika OST), Ending Music - Kaze no Tani no Naushika by Takako Minekawa( Kaze no Tani no Naushika OST) Our Website http://www.spiraken.com Our Email Spirakenmovie@gmail.com My Email xan@spiraken.com Cohost's Email baz.spiraken@gmail.com Our Twitter Spirakenmovie Our facebook fan group Spiraken Movie Review Xboxlive Gamertag Xan Spiraken Our Voicemail 206-350-8462 Random Question of the Week: How many of Studio Ghibli's films deal with the environment in one way or another?
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