Princess Mononoke

1997 [JAPANESE]

Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy

307
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 94% · 123 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 94% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 8.3/10 10 476674 476.7K

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Plot summary

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

Director

Hayao Miyazaki Photo
Hayao Miyazaki

Top cast

Claire Danes Photo
Claire Danes as San
Billy Bob Thornton Photo
Billy Bob Thornton as Jigo
Lewis Arquette Photo
Lewis Arquette
Pat Fraley Photo
Pat Fraley as Additional voices
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
650.30 MB
1280*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
25.000 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 84
2.13 GB
1920*1024
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 100

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dorMancyx 9 / 10

We Must Try to Live!

This is, without a doubt, my favorite animated movie and one of the best films I've ever watched. Even after three or four viewings, Princess Mononoke is still a riveting masterpiece, whether storytelling or aestheticism. Every character and living organism in this universe acts completely according to their nature and rationale --- it is so disgustingly detailed you can see it in the smallest eye turn of a pedestrian or even a cloth patch. Such meticulousness is also shown in the movie's artistic expression, where the arrows fly and the grass waft with such fluency you could forget that the film was animated almost 30 years ago. In addition to all this, Joe Hisaishi also gives one of his best works in the soundtrack, which often overtake the scenes through their fitting grandeur and vivacity.Environmentalism is merely the first and rather trivial layer of the movie. Princess Mononoke is an epic where men forge demons and gods take lives. It is a reality where the samurai are as ignorant as the apes, where the boars are as prideful as the soldiers with explosives, and where the wolves can befriend an elk but not humans. It is a hymn of nobility who apologizes to a wrathful dagger, of poise who stands to a bullet's impaling, of leadership who makes women and lepers her warriors. It is also a series of unanswered questions: Why must we continue charging even as fellow fighters fall to their feet? Why must we treat the gap of reasons with flame rather than words? Why must we resort to war and apocalypse before we regret and reflect on ourselves?As it is repeated throughout the film and Miyazaki's oeuvre, life is the answer itself. "The wind rises... we must try to live!"
Reviewed by ma-cortes 8 / 10

Riveting and marvelous cartoon movie by the genius Hayao Miyazaki

This magnificent cartoon movie concerns Japanese legends , it begins when Ashikata, a prince warrior is wounded by a cursed giant boar . He attempts to encounter some way to heal incurable curse inflicted . Ashikata saddled in his red deer goes to the east, where finds the Iron Town , ruled by Lady Ebosi confronting Sam , the princess Mononoke, a human girl raised by wolves . Ashikata encounters in the middle of fighting among the forest animals : large wolves, giant boars and humans : emperor Mikado soldiers , Lady Ebosi soldiers and Shogun army . Furthermore, in the forest finds the deer god and spirits called Kodamas .This wonderful film is plenty of fantasy , adventures, drama, spectacular combats and with ecological message . The picture is narrated with sensibility and sense of wonder and quite entertaining, though isn't apt for small kids but contains graphic violence . It's a deep critical about nature exploiting and killing the forests for the encroaching civilization represented by an iron mining town that cause a damage environment . This stunning film, though a bit too long, converted the first of any kind to gross over the box office in Japan and around the world. The motion picture was splendidly realized by Hayao Miyazaki , he personally corrected or redrew more than 80,000 of the film's 144,000 animation cels . Being accompanied by sensitive music score composed by his usual musician , Joe Hisaishi. Miyazaki also directed other excellent cartoon movies as ¨Howl's moving castle¨ , ¨Chihiro¨ , ¨Porco Rosso¨ and ¨My neighbour Tororo¨ . Rating : Sensational and fantastic , it's a masterpiece cartoon movie.
Reviewed by beardyfriesen 8 / 10

An extremely good movie that superseded my preconceptions about the animation style it is presented in.

A few years ago I would have tossed this film into a collection of movies I like to call the rubbish pile. Recently, however, I have forced myself, with great difficulty, to open my mind and look at the entire picture. Instead of focusing on one or two aspects of the movie I do not like and formulating a biased opinion based on my hasty and clouded notions, I can now decipher both the good and bad points of a given flick. Upon watching Princess Mononoke, I must say I first thought it would be very difficult to look past the animation style and see it for what it was- a dynamic film directed be the highly acclaimed Hayao Miyazaki. After about ten minutes of dwelling on the follies (and there are, in my opinion, many) of the "anime" style of art, I became enthralled with the quickly unfolding plot and the subsequently dire fate bestowed upon Ashitaka, the protagonist of the film. After Ashitaka leaves his village to search for a treatment to remedy his affliction, I no longer cared that this was an animated feature; I was on the edge of my seat, wondering what would happen next. I no longer disliked that every character had abnormally large eyes (though not over-sized to the point of utter absurdity) or that the English overdubbing was a little choppy. In fact, I even began to enjoy the accomplished yet subtle computer generated effects interspersed throughout. By the last half hour I was hooked to the screen, eagerly awaiting the conclusion I wanted so badly to end the bitter conflict of the plot. By the end, I realized that this movie carried a powerful moral with it: man's continuous tampering with nature brings about as much savagery as it does progress, as much suffering as it does good, and that a sound compromise must be struck between nature and civilization. I do not harbor any negative feelings towards those who rated this movie poorly, as I used to be one of those people. All I have to say to them is this: look at a both the visual and symbolic attributes of a movie before rating it harshly. If, after observing all these features and idiosyncrasies, you still wholeheartedly hate the film, then by all means give it a one. After all, what would the world be like if we were all did not criticize or question our surroundings?
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