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1997

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Starring	Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Sumi Shimamoto, Yuko Tanaka
Director	Hayao Miyazaki
Genres	Animated, Anime, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, World Cinema

Princess Mononoke

A beautifully realized tale of civilization versus nature, PRINCESS MONONOKE is a true epic by Japan's master animator Hayao Miyazaki. While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the warrior Ashitaka (Billy Crudup) is cursed with a rapidly spreading scar that threatens to end his life. Seeking a cure and a reason for the animal-god's attack, he journeys into the sacred depths of the Great Forest Spirit's realm. On the edge of this once serene forest, however, the Tatara clan have begun to destroy the surrounding land to produce iron. In retaliation, San (Claire Danes), the adopted daughter of the wolf-god Moro (Gillian Anderson), has begun raiding the Tatara fortress to stop their encroachment. Soon Ashitaka is caught in the middle and must stop the war between the humans and the forest dwellers before they destroy each other.
Miyazaki, who was personally responsible for 80,000 of the film's 144,000 hand drawings, uses the story's lush feudal setting as a character unto itself, filling the screen with vast mountainous landscapes and gorgeous wooded glens that recall his early film, NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND. The film also features battle sequences that are reminiscent of the stunning live action warfare in Akira Kurosawa's RAN. The startlingly fluid movements of these mythological characters are detailed far beyond any other hand-animated production, easily making this one of the most spectacular animated films ever made.

Starring	Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Sumi Shimamoto, Yuko Tanaka, Akihiro Miwa, Tetsu Watanabe
Voice over cast	Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Corey Burton, Keith David, Minnie Driver
Director	Hayao Miyazaki
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 10 mins
Certificate
Genres	Animated, Anime, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese
Dubbed	English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1997 To Rent: DVD: 22 Oct 2001

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- "...It's hard to deny the ambition of the storytelling, the ferocity of the action, or the sheer weirdness..." -- 4 out of 5 stars - Watch More Than Once
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  PRINCESS MONONOKE
  
  If you have never come across the work of Hayao Miyazaki you are in for
  
  a wonderful surprise. The Japanese anime director and writer has earnedread more »
  
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  Worth the watch!
  
  A seriously good anime movie with a subtle message of living in harmony with nature- but by no means a preachy message. Loved it from start to finish!
  
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  Princess Monosylable
  
  Even if you like your films dubbed, this is rubbish. Broad street-wise USA accents continually jar in what I'd hoped to be a charmer of a film.
  
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  Gut wrenchingly beautiful !
  
  Princess Mononoke is, gut wrenchingly beautiful, its the only way I can think to describe such a masterpiece,it really is Hayao Miyazaki's best work.
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  A beautifully realized tale of civilization versus nature, PRINCESS MONONOKE is a true epic by Japan's master animator Hayao Miyazaki. While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the warrior Ashitaka (Billy Crudup) is cursed with a rapidly spreading scar that threatens to end his life. ...