The Chronicles of Earth Sea

Anime movie
title	The Chronicles of Earth Sea
Original title	ゲド戦記
transcription	Gedo Senki
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	2006
Studio	Studio Ghibli
length	115 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Gorō Miyazaki
script	Gorō Miyazaki, ; Keiko Niwa
production	Toshio Suzuki , ; Tomohiko Ishii
music	Tamiya Terajima
synchronization

The Chronicles of Erdsee ( Japanese ゲド戦記 , Gedo Senki ; in German, for example: Geds Kriegschroniken ) is a Japanese anime by Studio Ghibli from 2006.

The film is largely based on Das ferne Ufer , the third novel in the Erdsee series by Ursula K. Le Guin , published in 1972 .

action

The film tells the story of Sperber, the protagonist of most of the Earth Sea novels, after he survived the doubts and uncertainties of his youth and rose to the respectable rank of archmage. During a sea voyage, a magician observes two dragons tearing each other to pieces in the sky above his ship - a process that would have been unthinkable in the old days, when the world was at peace. Sparrowhawk realizes more and more that something is wrong with Erdsee.

On his journey he meets Prince Arren von Enlad, who is being pursued by an evil "shadow". Through devastated and abandoned lands they go to the city of Hort, where they find nothing but chaos. Sperber's old companion, Tenar, gives them shelter and introduces them to her protégé, the scarred girl Therru. Both had previously met in a ruin, with Arren rescuing Therru, but shortly afterwards became a slave himself and could only be saved by Sparrowhawks . Therru is afraid of Arren from the start, because she senses something dangerous and evil in him.

Arren works hard in the fields and is tutored by Sparrowhawks. Little by little he finds a new connection with nature and an inner balance. Sparhawk finds out that Cob von Havnor, another wizard from his past, is responsible for the unrest in Earth Sea: he has opened a gate between the worlds of the living and the dead and, for a fee, brings fallen souls back to life from the underworld . Despite all the help of his companions, Arren now feels more and more evil rising in himself and flees into the wilderness. Finally he arrives at Cob's castle, where the evil magician administers the drug Hazia and makes him so docile.

Sparhawk and Therru are only able to free Arren from the influence of the mad magician with the greatest effort, so that he overcomes his own pursuit of immortality and takes Cob in a fight to save Earth Sea.

Emergence

Ursula K. Le Guin has turned down a number of offers to film her Earth Sea saga in the past. This was also the case when Hayao Miyazaki asked the author about an anime version in the 1980s. Since the author only associated Disney and the like with animation at the time, she declined the suggestion. Around 2000 she was told about Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro by her friend Vonda N. McIntyre . She watched the film with that friend and immediately became a Miyazaki fan. When it turned out a few years later that the Japanese translator of the Earth Sea saga, Masako Shimizu, was acquainted with Hayao Miyazaki, the author asked her to tell Miyazaki that if he was still interested in the Earth Sea saga, she would be happy to join me want to talk to him about a film adaptation. As a result, there was a correspondence between Le Guin and Toshio Suzuki from Studio Ghibli. In August 2005 she was finally visited by Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki. The project was discussed with Le Guin's son, who manages the rights of the Earth Sea saga. To the disappointment of the author, they were told that Hayao Miyazaki wanted to retire from the film business, and instead should direct his son Gorō Miyazaki at his and Studio Ghibli's request. When assured that Hayao Miyazaki would have the last word on the project, they nevertheless gave their approval. At this point in time, the first preparatory work on the film had already begun. To her displeasure, Ursula K. Le Guin soon discovered that Hayao Miyazaki played no role in the project.

The animation work began on September 6, 2005 and ended on May 23, 2006, the sound recordings on May 30, 2006. The finished film was shown on June 28, 2006 to the Studio Ghibli staff. The production time was thus considerably shorter than with The Moving Castle or Spirited Away .

publication

The film opened in 435 Japanese cinemas on July 29, 2006 and grossed around 900 million yen (around 6 million euros) on the first weekend . It topped the Japanese movie charts five times in the first six weeks.

The film was shown out of valuation at the Venice Film Festival on September 3 and 4, 2006 .

The German premiere, in Japanese with English subtitles, took place during the 21st Fantasy Film Festival on July 27, 2007 at CINEMA Munich. The German theatrical release was on November 8, 2007. The film was released on March 3, 2008 on Universum Anime on DVD, and on November 9, 2013 on Blu-ray .

synchronization

The German dubbing took place at FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Munich . Cornelius Frommann wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
Sparrowhawk (Ged)	Bunta Sugawara	Ekkehardt Belle
Prince Arren (Lebannen)	Junichi Okada	Manuel Straube
Therru (Tehanu)	Aoi Teshima	Farina Brock
Tenar	Jun Fubuki	Kathrin Simon
The king	Kaoru Kobayashi	Walter von Hauff
The Queen	Yui Natsukawa	Martina Duncker
Cob	Yuko Tanaka	Susanne von Medvey
Trader	Mitsuko Baisho	Inge Solbrig
Hare	Teruyuki Kagawa	Gerd Meyer
Hazia dealer	Takashi Naitō	Tobias Lelle

Adaptation

In Carlsen Comics published from 2007 to 2008, a comprehensive four volumes, from footage of the film existing film comic titled Tales from Earthsea .

Awards

At the Bunshun Raspberry Awards, the film was voted Worst Film in 2006 and Gorō Miyazaki Worst Director.

At the Japanese Academy Awards 2007 , however, it was nominated for Best Animated Film, but had to admit defeat to Mamoru Hosoda's The Girl Who Leaped Through Time .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Nausicaä.net: grossing first weekend of Nausicaä.net . July 30, 2006 (last checked on July 11, 2007)

↑ Eiga.com: Japanese Charts September 6, 2006 ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Eiga.com . September 6, 2006 (last checked on September 6, 2006) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eiga.com

↑ Ghibli World: Gedo Senki at Venice International Film Festival ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from GhibliWorld.com . August 18, 2006. (Last checked on July 11, 2007) @1@ 2

↑ Tales from Earthsea ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Fantasy Filmfest

↑ The Chronicles of Earth Sea. Universum Film GmbH, accessed December 8, 2013 .

↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The Chronicles of Earth Sea. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .

↑ AnimeNewsnetworks: Earthsea Wins "Raspberry Award"

[erstes_Wochende-1] Nausicaä.net: grossing first weekend of Nausicaä.net . July 30, 2006 (last checked on July 11, 2007)