TALES FROM EARTHSEA
Director: Goro Miyazaki
Voicers: Junichi Okada, Aoi Teshima, Yuko Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa
Prelude: The story is adapted from the Earthsea series, a fantasy classic written by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, which is ranked alongside The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Earthsea is a fictional realm that is, like Japan, an archipelago of islands surrounded by ocean. It is a pre-industrial civilisation where wizards maintain law and keep the peace with their magic.
The story: Earthsea is collapsing. Crops wither, animals fall ill, people act strangely and the dragons, which normally live far away, appear. A powerful wizard decides to track down the source of evil to prevent civilisation from crumbling.
During the quest, he comes across Arren, a prince who deserts his homeland, and an abandoned girl who is about to be taken by slave traders. Together they unveil a vengeful plot by Cob, a once great wizard whose fear of death leads him to open the door between the worlds of the living and of the dead. This is the cause of the imbalance in the world.
