In Hayao Miyazaki’s breakthrough classic, a prince becomes involved in the struggle between a forest princess and the encroachment of mechanization.
While seeking to cure himself of a curse, young warrior Ashitaka stumbles into a conflict between the people of Iron Town and Princess Mononoke, a girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the destruction of her home. She hates and distrusts all humans, including Ashitaka. Superbly imagined and visually sumptuous, this is a call for peaceful co-existence Miyazaki was already a culture hero in Japan when this animated mythic adventure raised him (and Studio Ghibli) to a status approaching living national treasure. (Subtitles)
Japan 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 133m
