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Fields	USA Info	Japanese Info	Image
Title	Laputa: Castle in the Sky	Tenku no Shiro Rapyuta(天空の城ラピュタ)("Castle in the Sky Laputa")
· · ·	Castle in the Sky	Castle in the Sky Laputa
Released
Dates	March 24, 1989(theatrical release), April 2003(video release)	1986
Company	Streamline Pictures(theatrical release), Disney(video release)	Studio Ghibli
Creator		Hayao Miyazak
Director		Hayao Miyazaki
Genre	Adventure, Fantasy, Drama	Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
Characters	Dola
· · ·	Muska	Muska
· · ·	Pazu	Pazu
· · ·	Sheeta	Lusheeta Toelle Ul Laputa
· · ·	Sheeta's Grandmother	Sheeta's Grandmother

Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon.com and Anime Nation, and on VHS at Amazon.com.

Laputa is a wonderful work full of turn-of-the-century gadgetry. Loosely based on the mining towns of Wales and the flying island of Laputa found in Gulliver's Travels, it revolves around a young girl named Sheeta who carries a valuable posession; the secret to Laputa. Laputa is a island which floats through the sky.

Sheeta is pursued by government forces and the air pirate clan Dola. Both want the location of the flying city. She is aided by a boy named Pazu who is a lift operator in the mines. He is searching for Laputa as well to prove his father, a former airship captain, was not insane when he saw a flying island during a storm. The island is rumored to hold fantastic wealth and technology, but that technology may well cause the destruction of Laputa and the Earth.

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• Laputa Castle in the Sky ~ Tenku no Shiro Rapyuta