El viaje de Shuna / El viaje de Shuna

Shuna, joven heredero de una tierra hostil y baldía, pasa los días observando con desesperación cómo su gente trabaja hasta el agotamiento cosechando el poco grano que crece en sus campos. Un día, un misterioso anciano llega a sus tierras tras un largo viaje y, moribundo, le habla de unas semillas doradas con las que podría devolver la abundancia a sus cosechas. Sin embargo, tendrá que pagar un alto precio si quiere encontrarlas, pues las semillas están en el lugar donde nace la luna y regresa a morir, donde la tierra anuncia su fin, un lugar del que nunca nadie ha regresado. Shuna, esperanzado ante la idea de poner fin a la hambruna de su pueblo, emprende un peligroso viaje hacia el oeste.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From the multi-award-winning filmmaker Miyazaki comes a work originally published in 1983 and previously unpublished in Spain, which stands as an essential gem for any Miyazaki fan.

Shuna, the young heir to a hostile and barren land, spends his days watching in despair as his people work themselves to exhaustion harvesting the little grain that grows in their fields. One day, a mysterious old man arrives on his land after a long journey and, on his deathbed, tells him about some golden seeds that could restore abundance to his crops. However, he will have to pay a high price if he wants to find them, for the seeds are in the place where the moon is born and returns to die, where the earth announces its end, a place from which no one has ever returned. Shuna, hopeful at the idea of ending his people’s famine, embarks on a dangerous journey to the west.