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Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ, Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta) is a 1986 Japanese animated adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and is also the first film produced and released by Studio Ghibli. The film was distributed by Toei Kabushiki Kaisha. Laputa: Castle in the Sky won the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 1986.

Human civilizations had built flying cities which were later destroyed by an unspecified catastrophe, forcing the survivors to live on the ground while the sole exception—Laputa—remains in the sky, concealed within a powerful thunderstorm. In the film's opening, an airship carrying the young girl Sheeta and her abductor, Muska—a secret agent working for the government—is attacked by the air-pirate Dola and her sons in who are in search of Sheeta's crystal amulet. In the resulting struggle, Sheeta falls from the airship with the amulet.