
Later in the day they are pursued by Dola's pirates, and later by Muska's soldiers. She tells him that her family lived in a small valley to the north named Gondoa, and that she had lived alone once her grandmother had died, until being abducted by Muska and his agents. On waking, Sheeta is surprised to find that Pazu is building a small aeroplane, with the intention of finding the lost city of Laputa, as his father had taken a photograph of it while flying. Floating safely down to a small mining town, she is discovered by a boy named Pazu, who takes her into his home to recover. In the resulting struggle, Sheeta falls from the airship, slowed by the amulet mid-fall. Castle in the Sky won the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 1986.Īn airship carrying a young girl, Sheeta and her abductor, a secret agent working for the government named Muska is attacked by the air-pirate Dola and her sons in search of Sheeta's crystal amulet. The film was distributed by Toei Kabushiki Kaisha. My Neighbor Totoro Source Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta?) is a 1986 Japanese animated adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and is also the first film produced and released by Studio Ghibli.
