Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta

Plot summary

A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheet, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machine, eventually searching for Sheet's identity in a floating castle of a lost civilization. Written by Tzung-I Lin {tzung@hugo.att.com}

This film is set in a Victorian era that might have been, influenced by the visions of writers such as Jules Verne. As Pazu, the apprentice of the engineer who maintains a mine's elevator machinery, carries his boss's dinner back to the mine, an unconscious pigtailed girl floats down from the sky into his arms. This girl, Sheeta, and her magical levitation-stone pendant hold the key to a mysterious, mythical sky-castle known as Laputa. Sheeta and Pazu must flee from both air-pirates, who seek the sky kingdom for its legendary treasure, and the army, led by a government agent with his own mysterious agenda for Laputa. Written by Christopher E. Meadows {cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu}

Cast of Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta

	Mayumi Tanaka	...	Pazu (voice)
	James Van Der Beek	...	Pazu (2003) (voice: English version)
	Anna Paquin	...	Sheeta (2003) (voice: English version)
	Keiko Yokozawa	...	Sheeta (voice)
	Kotoe Hatsui	...	Dola (voice)
	Cloris Leachman	...	Dola (2003) (voice: English version)
	Mark Hamill	...	Muska (voice: English version)
	Minori Terada	...	Muska (voice)
	Richard A. Dysart	...	Uncle Pomme (2003) (voice: English version) (as Richard Dysart)
	Fujio Tokita	...	Uncle Pomme (voice)
	Jim Cummings	...	General (voice)
	Ichirô Nagai	...	Shogun Mouro (voice)
	John Hostetter	...	Boss (voice: English version)
	Hiroshi Ito	...	Oyakata (voice)
	Machiko Washio	...	Okami, Mrs. Daffy (voice)