It is an adventurous story about a boy, Pazu who dreams of discovering a legendary castle floating in the sky, Laputa, and a girl, Sheeta who is a descendant of the royal family of the Laputa Empire. This is a film review of a Studio Ghibli animation film, Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) directed by Miyazaki Hayao. Keywords: ecological peace, lost civilisation, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons. The implications for nuclear abolition, ecological peace, as well as peace education, then, will be explored in the context of peace research. Notably, this study demonstrates the correlation between the number of global nuclear warheads as the political and historical background in the creation and release of this film. The shift in power balance between the main characters is discussed, and we point out how political leaders utilise the word ‘peace’ to build up military power and justify the use of force. ‘cooperation for peace’ in search of the legendary castle in the sky. Specifically, it examines the storyline in terms of ‘desire for power’ vs.

This review provides an analysis of the film in terms of international politics and peace research.

Basically, it is an adventurous story about a boy, Pazu and a girl, Sheeta, as well as a legendary castle floating in the sky, Laputa. This essay reviews the adventurous animation film, Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), directed by Miyazaki Hayao and animated by Studio Ghibli.

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