Started watching Castle in the Sky (Ghibli movie - the first feature-length, I think?) and I was like huh, this countryside looks familiar, wonder where it's set...

So it turns out Hayao Miyazaki visited Wales several times shortly after the 1984-85 miners' strike, and was inspired. Huh!

No spoilers please, I'm barely halfway through, if that, watching it in short sections.

Thanks to @buddha_teeKlaus WiesmΓΌller πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ for making me aware this film even existed!

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