Ged Senki

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Ged Aenki (also known as Tales from Earthsea) is a 2006 toho anime film,Directed by Goro Miyazaki.

## Plot

a crew of a war galley are up against a storm, Suddenly two dragons are fighting above the clouds, during which the White Dragon is killed suddenly by the Black Dragon, an occurrence believed to have been impossible for centuries.

News of the kingdom declining and nothing heard from Prince Arren troubles the King of the once tranquil kingdom of Enlad. The wizard Root speaks of dragons and men once being "as one", divided by their particular desires (freedom and possessions respectively), which is the cause of the world's balance, gradually weakening. Suddenly the King is fatally stabbed with a dagger in a dark corridor by his own son, Prince Arren, who steals his father's sword and flees the castle.

In the desert, Arren is rescued from wolves by the archmage Sparrowhawk. Together they travel to the city of Hort Town. When Arren explores the town alone, he rescues a young girl named Therru from slavers, but is later captured by the same slave master, Hare. His sword is dumped in the sea. Sparrowhawk rescues Arren from the slave caravan and takes him to a farm run by Sparrowhawk's oldest and greatest friend Tenar, who lives with Therru.

Sparrowhawk's intervention against Hare's slave caravan angers Lord Cob, a powerful warlock and the ruler of Hort Town, who wants the archmage brought to the castle. Meanwhile, Sparrowhawk tells Arren that he seeks a way to restore the upset balance, then resumes his search in Hort Town. While there he buys Arren's sword from a merchant's stall and manages to evade capture from Hare whilst learning about Cob's castle.

Arren confesses to Therru that he killed his father and that he feels an unknown presence following him. Because of this, Arren leaves the farm, but is met by the presence, which is a mirror image of himself. Arren falls unconscious after stumbling into a swamp while fleeing from the image. Cob takes him to the castle, where he manipulates him into revealing his "true name", Prince Lebannen, to control him. Meanwhile, Hare captures Tenar as bait to lure Sparrowhawk into the castle, leaving Therru tied to a post as a messenger. She frees herself, and encounters Sparrowhawk, who gives her Arren's sword to give to Arren. Sparrowhawk breaks into the castle to save Tenar and confronts Cob. Sparrowhawk learns that Cob is causing the world's Balance to collapse by opening the door between life and death to try and gain eternal life. Sparrowhawk tries to warn Cob of the dangers of upsetting the balance, and Cob sends Arren out to kill him. Sparrowhawk frees the prince from Cob's control but is captured by Hare, his great mystical strength and powers having been weakened within the stronghold of Cob's castle.

Meanwhile, Therru sees the same copy of Arren and follows him to the castle, where he reveals that he is the light within Arren and tells Therru his true name. Therru enters the castle and learns of Sparrowhawk and Tenar's sunrise execution. She finds Arren, guilty and hopeless, and brings hope back to him, calling him by his true name and confiding in him her own true name, Tehanu. They rush to rescue Sparrowhawk and Tenar. Arren confronts Cob, who tries to kill him. He fights back and finally unsheathes his sword, which was sealed with magic. Arren cuts off Cob's staff-holding hand. Unable to use any of his magic powers, Cob rapidly begins to age. He captures Therru and flees to the highest tower of the castle, with Arren in pursuit. Cornering Cob, Arren tries to explain what he learned about life and death from Therru and Sparrowhawk to Cob, but the withering Dark Lord refuses to listen and uses the last of his magic to strangle Therru to death. Instead of dying, she reveals her true form as the Black Dragon, possessing life everlasting. Therru kills Cob with her fire breath and rescues Arren from the collapsing tower.

Sparrowhawk and Tenar leave the castle while Therru and Arren land in a field where Therru changes back into a human. Arren tells Therru he will leave for home to repent for his crime, but will come back to see her some day. After he and Therru reunite with Sparrowhawk and Tenar, the four of them spend time together. Arren and Sparrowhawk depart for Enlad, bidding Therru and Tenar goodbye. Therru looks up to see her fellow dragons airborne, indicating that the balance of the world has been restored.

## Staff

* Original: Ursula K. Le-Gwin (" Ged Senki ")
* Draft: Hayao Miyazaki (" Shuna's Journey ")
* Director: Goro Miyazaki
* Screenplay: Goro Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa
* Animation production: Akihiko Yamashita
* Animation director: Takeshi Inamura
* Animation cooperation: Anime ass, Nakamura production , studio Takuranke , studio cockpit , Haut-production , video studio , dragon of child production , GAINAX , Ufotable , Production IG , MADHOUSE , GONZO , DR MOVIE
* Art Director: Yoji Takeshige
* Music: Tamaya Terashima
* Color design: Michiyo Yasuda
* Digital animation director: Mitsunori Katahata
* Video production: Atsushi Okui
* Recording production: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
* Harmonic: Hajime Takagi
* Effect: Koji Kasamatsu
* Harmonic supervision: Shuji Inoue
* Edit: Takeshi Seyama
* Producer: Toshio Suzuki
* Sponsor: Asahi Beverage
* Production: Studio Ghibli
* Production progress: Junya Saito, Tomohiko Ishii, Gohei Ito, Shintaro Nakazawa, Aya Hashimoto
* Distribution: Toho

## TV broadcast ratings

 2
 3
 Four

## Awards and Entertainment Ratings

The mobilization of the audience was about 670,000 and the box office revenue was about 900 million yen in two days after the exhibition. Toho, a distributor, set a goal of over 10 billion yen in box office revenue in response to the initial results, but lowered it to 8.5 billion yen in September. In the end, it was even less than that, at 7.69 billion yen, but in 2006, it was ranked No. 1 in the Japanese box office  .

* 30th Japan Academy Award for Best Animation
* 3rd Bunharu Kiichigo Prize 1st
* The 3rd Snake Ichigo Award Work Award
* Film art 2006 worst ten first place