Shochiku’s official website for the forthcoming kabuki play adaptation of internationally acclaimed Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki’s early manga work Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa/Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind has posted a main visual introducing its two main cast in costume: kabuki star Kikunosuke Oue IV (42) as the protagonist Nausicaa and Shichinosuke Nakamura II (36) as Kushana, a princess of Torumekia.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind originally launched as Miyazaki’s first serialization manga in Tokuma Shoten’s Monthly Animage magazine in 1982.
This is the first Miyazaki work to get its kabuki play adaptation.