Tales from Earthsea
The film is a sweeping adventure set in a mythical world filled with magic and bewitchment. Set in a mythical land, it follows a man and a young boy as they investigate a series of unusual occurrences.
21 January 1967, Tokyo, Japan
21 October 1929, Berkeley, California, USA
21 January 1967, Tokyo, Japan
18 June 1978, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
28 May 1976, Belleville, New Jersey, USA
18 February 1949, Seattle, Washington, USA
23 January 1964, Santa Monica, California, USA
27 January 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 September 1951, Kyoto, Japan
7 December 1965, Tokyo, Japan
16 August 1933, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
4 May 1944, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
20 June 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 July 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
August 29, 2010
...an ill-conceived story for Western audiences who will blanch at its bizarre embrace of patricide that its young protagonist commits before escaping on a journey of guided self-discovery.
August 13, 2010
The themes and memorable imagery in Earthsea will be familiar to fans of Studio Ghibli, but the storytelling and animation are a step behind.
August 13, 2010
If this starchy, nearly two-hour allegory about human hubris bluntly addresses a historical moment when global warming threatens the planet and pollution is fouling the seas, its chilly, formal tone keeps you at an emotional distance.
September 05, 2010
A flawed but ambitious film, full of potent mythic images — battling dragons; a shadowy doppelganger — but one that fails ultimately to resolve those images in a satisfying way.
August 13, 2010
The Miyazaki legacy is in good hands.
August 18, 2010
As dark as The Last Unicorn or The Dark Crystal, though a shade less lyrical.
March 16, 2011
A passable piece from the junior Miyazaki, and one only hopes the reservation in voice felt here will be far more loosened in future projects.
August 18, 2010
It's interesting that Tales From Earthsea was originally released in 2006... especially since it seems like in four years, someone could have found a way to make it more interesting.
August 17, 2010
A wizard and his apprentice battle an evil necromancer who is searching for immortality in this animated adventure drawn from the writings of Ursula K. Le Guin.
August 13, 2010
A workmanlike, humorless cartoon.
August 13, 2010
There's a whole lot going on in the Japanese anime fantasy Tales From Earthsea, so why is it such a bore?
April 15, 2014
An overly stoic, pretentious, boring, unimaginative trainwreck that just happens to have been made by some of the greatest animators in the history of Japanese anime.

