Original Nausicaä lead Kikunosuke Onoe V will be returning to the show, but this time in the role of antagonist Kushana, Princess of Torumekia. In the July Grand Kabuki run, Yonekichi Nakamura V will step into the part of Nausicaä. Nestled among more traditional kabuki offerings on the program, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Volume 1: The Battle of the White Witch will be performed at Tokyo’s Kabuki-za Theatre from July 4-29.
Recently Toho’s Spirited Away just closed a successful stage run through Japan’s major cities and later this year Ghibli’s long-awaited theme park will open in the Aici Prefecture. Here in the states, fans can visit a Miyazaki exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California—the first of its kind in North America, including items that have never been displayed outside of Japan before—until June 1.
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