Goro Miyazaki attempts his first feature film. Tales of Earthsea is slightly odd, in that it contains wizards, dragons and witches. But doesn't have much excitement or magic to it. It's very much a slow story that waddles along. Never has a fantasy world been so lacking in charac...( read more)
Gedo senki (Tales from Earthsea)
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Gedo senki (Tales from Earthsea)
Aoi Teshima, Bunta Sugawara, Junichi Okada, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûko Tanaka
A prince sets out on a magical journey and discovers wizards, witches, dragons and self-knowledge.
Id: 4918221
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Recent Reviews
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August 23, 2009
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April 12, 2009
Not the quality you'd come to expect from Studio Ghibli. Visually stunning but also muted. Magical yet mundane. Emotional yet bland. Intriguing yet boring. You can tell there's a lot of material, backstory, character in the world of Earthsea, but by trying to show too much they s...( read more)
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April 25, 2008
Extremely boring. Takes the worst part of the Earthsea saga and adds some clichés and a pre-90s visual style.
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December 20, 2009
It might not be the best offering from Studio Ghibli but Miyazaki's son Goro does well enough in his 1st feature. I enjoyed the story of the young prince going on a journey of self discovery and battling a dark wizard. The animation as per usual from Ghibli is top class.
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December 19, 2009
A pretty good movie, maybe not up to the standards of previous Studio Ghibli classics but a great attempt none the less.
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December 11, 2009
Ce long métrage aborde des sujets graves, transposables dans notre société actuel. "Un miroir que l'auteur pointe sur nous et qui, malgré la lenteur du récit et les mystères dévoilés avec parcimonie, nous envoûte jusqu'à nous pousser au bord de l'introspection." Goro Miyazaki, no...( read more)
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October 10, 2009
They could have stretched this out over a few movies and actually stuck to the plot, but instead they made up a few things that were completely out of character and blurted out secrets that took whole books to expose. If you haven't read the books it'll make very little sense and...( read more)
