Yapım :2006 Ülke : Japonya Tür : Animation Süre :
115 dakika IMDB Puan : 6.4/10 IMDB ID: tt0495596
A.K.A Tales from Earthsea Yerdeniz Öyküleri
Oyuncular Junichi Okada, Arren (voice)
Aoi Teshima, Theru (voice)
Bunta Sugawara, Haitaka (voice)
Yûko Tanaka, Cob (voice)
Teruyuki Kagawa, Hare (voice)
Jun Fubuki, Tenar (voice)
Takashi Naitô, Hazia dealer (voice)
Mitsuko Baisho, The Mistress (voice)
Yui Natsukawa, The Queen (voice)
Kaoru Kobayashi, The King (voice)
Bilgi :In a parallel, quasi-medieval world called Earthsea, teenage Prince Arren of the kingdom of Enlad is compelled by forces he doesn't understand to kill his own father and steal the royal sword which has mystical powers.
He runs away and starts trekking the countryside where he meets Sparrowhawk (Bunta Sugawara), the most powerful wizard in the land, who is on a quest to find out why the Balance in the world is out of whack, producing unexpected appearances of dragons where they shouldn't be and widespread pestilence.
When the twosome hits the bustling burg of Hort Town (whose sunset-streaked port looks like something out of a Poussin painting), they run into henchmen in the employ of evil wizard Cob (Yuko Tanaka), a supposedly male figure who nevertheless looks like a drag queen channeling early Cher. Cob is the source of Earthsea's trouble, but needs to capture Arren in order to complete his nefarious goal of achieving eternal youth.
Additional characters include a motherly one-time witch, Tenar (Jun Fubuki), and her orphan ward Therru (Aoi Teshima), who has special powers of her own.
Story was mostly adapted from the third book in Le Guin's series, "The Farthest Shore" and feels like the middle section of an epic, although buckets of explicatory dialogue are deployed, especially in first reels, to get aud up to speed. Like much work in the fantasy genre, characters must spout a lot of mystical-sounding guff with great solemnity, and there's not a single comic-relief character to lighten the mood.
Unfortunately, despite all the spell-casting, pic is also rather deficient visually in the magic department. The character design is especially flat and undistinguished with inexpressive faces and is, in terms of coloring, severely mismatched with the impressionistically daubed backgrounds. Missing is the ludic inventiveness and whimsicality of Hayao Miyazaki at his best.
Still, pic's general simplicity, fairy-tale quality and G-rated sensibility should help it find a family audience if it's redubbed for export.
Key tech credits include names who have worked on many previous Studio Ghibli releases, but who seem to have been under-inspired by their tyro helmer here.
