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Movie
Princess Mononoke
Synopsis
This $20 million animated adventure/fantasy quickly became the highest grossing Japanese film in Japanese film history (making $150 million in Japan during its first seven months). Set in the 14th century, the ecology-themed epic was directed by Hayao Miyazaki whose previous films were acquired by Disney for U.S. distribution plus other territories. Princess Mononoke depicts a mystical battle between Animal Gods of the forest and humans during Japan's Muromachi Period. Young Ashitaka receives a fatal infection after a demonic wild boar attacks his northern village. Seeking a cure, he sets out to locate the deer-like god Shishigami. Along the way, he sees the rape of the Earth by a mining village. The constant plundering by the village has brought the wrath of the Wolf God, Moro, who attacks the village along with San, a human who was raised by the wolf god. She communicates with the nature spirits -- which is why she is called Princess Mononoke ("spirits of things"). Ashitaka wants these opposing forces to co-exist, and he hopes to bring peace between San and the ironworks owner, Lady Eboshi. However, he is thwarted as higher powers, intent on killing the Shishigama, intrude, and a battle erupts over the future of all nature.
Cast
- Masahiko Nishimura
- Yuriko Ishida
- Kaoru Kobayashi
- Akihiro Miwa
- Sumi Shimamoto
- Mitsuko Mori
- Hisaya Morishige
- Akihiro Miwa
- Neil Gaiman
- Harvey Weinstein
- Gillian Anderson
- Atsushi Okui
- Minnie Driver
- Yoji Matsuda
- Yuriko Ishida
- Bob Weinstein
- Hisaya Morishige
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Sumi Shimamoto
- Keith David
- Billy Crudup
- Scott Martin
- Takeshi Seyama
- Jack Fletcher
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Masahiko Mishimura
- Jada Pinkett Smith
- Claire Danes
- Masahiko Nishimura
- Kaoru Kobayashi
- Yasuyoshi Tokuma
- John DiMaggio
- Yuko Tanaka