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- Lady Eboshi
Lady Eboshi (エボシ御前, Eboshi Gozen) is one of the villains of...
- Forest Spirit
Forest Spirit, also called Shishigami (シシ神, lit. Deer God)...
- Apes
Apes (猩々 Shōjō) are a minor species from Princess Mononoke....
- Kaya
Kaya (カヤ) is a minor character from Princess Mononoke...
- Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫 , Mononoke Hime) is the 10th...
- Lady Eboshi
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- Director's Proposal
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To the West
Princess Mononoke follows the journey of the last Emishi prince, Ashitaka, and his attempts to make peace between the human settlement, Irontown, and the creatures living in the forest that surrounds it. The film begins with Ashitaka riding on his red elk to warn three girls to return to the village as per the wise woman's orders. Ashitaka then heads to the lookout tower where Jigo tells Ashitaka something is in the forest, seconds later a demon who is actually the giant boar god Nagoembodied...
The Lost Mountains
Having traveled some distance, Ashitaka arrives in a forest full of animal gods, including the wolf god Moro. Also in the forest is the Forest Spirit, described as a "god of life and death", which takes the form of a deer during the day and a large shadowy "night-walker" at night. The forest lies beside a human settlement called Irontown which continually clears the forest to get to more iron ore, causing many battles as the animals attempt to protect their diminishing forest. It was during o...
Furies
Soon enough Moro and her pups approach and they find an army of Boars have come to save the forest and stop the humans. They become angry by the fact that Ashitaka was saved but Nago wasn't, Moro tells them that Nago was so blind with rage he fled. Ashitaka then tells them that he killed Nago because he attacked his village and after he received his mark, he came to this forest to be healed and while his wound was healed his mark remained and soon the mark will kill him. Seconds later, the Bo...
Main Characters
Ashitaka(アシタカ , literally translates to "Leap" in Japanese) 1. Yōji Matsuda (Japanese), Billy Crudup(English) 2. Ashitaka is an Emishi prince who was meant to become a leader of his tribe. While rescuing his village from Nago, the demon boar god, Ashitaka's arm is afflicted with a curse that will eventually consume and kill him. Under the effect of the curse, Ashitaka gains superhuman strength but causes him to grow weaker as time passes. Ashitaka is exiled by his village and sent westward to...
Mononoke
Shishigami (シシ神（ディダラボッチ , Shishi-Shin (Didarabotchi)） 1. An ancient spirit of the forest. During the day, Shishigami resembles a great stag-like qilin with many antlers, bird-like feet, and the face of a baboon. At sunset, Shishigami becomes Daidarabocchi (translated to the Nightwalker in the English version), a huge god in a humanoid form that appears to be made out of stars with a long pointed face and tentacle-like spikes on the back. Shishigami is protected by the Wolf Clan. As he walks,...
Tatara People
Lady Eboshi (エボシ御前 , Eboshi Gozen) 1. Yūko Tanaka (Japanese), Minnie Driver(English) 2. A strong-willed and independent woman. Though seemingly callous and distant to others, she actually cares a lot about the welfare of her people; the guns they produce are primarily intended to secure their independence. She buys off daughters who were sold to sexual slavery and given jobs at the Tatara field, which were originally forbidden for women. She also takes in lepers, treating them as humans inste...
Director Hayao Miyazakiwrote a proposal for his film entitled "The Battle Between Humans and Ferocious Gods - The Goal of This Film".
Historical Setting
This story takes place in Japan during the Muromachi period, which is considered to be the transition period between the medieval period and the early modern period. It is notable that the power of the shoguns greatly declined in this period. The landscapes which appear in Princess Mononoke are said to have been inspired by the ancient forests of Yakushima, off Kyūshū, and the mountains of Shirakami-Sanchi in northern Honshū. Ashitaka comes from a tribe called the Emishi, which used to be nat...
Director's Goals
The film contains several themes and ideas Hayao Miyazaki has been wanting to tackle for some time. Toshio Uratani, director and author of How Princess Mononoke Was Born, summarized five points: 1. A cavity of children's minds 2. Discrimination everywhere 3. The relationship between humanity and nature 4. Amplification of human hatred, the instinctive push to murder and destroy 5. Conflict between mysticism and rationalism Uratani noted to Miyazaki that the film may be dealing with too many c...
Motivation of the Hero
Miyazaki shuns the "loss of motivation" that pervaded popular Japanese animation protagonists. He cites this weakness in his own short story, The Journey of Shuna, which was inspired by the Tibetan folk story The Prince Who Became a Dog(written by Hisako Kimishima, Iwanami Shoten). The main character, Shuna, sets out on a journey in search of "golden seeds," a grain seed that can save his village from poverty and starvation. The motive for Shuna's trip may be noble, but it lacked personal sta...
Production
Hayao Miyazaki began working on the detailed script in August 1994. However, he struggled in his writing and by December, he decided to take a break and instead produce On Your Markfor the musical act Chage and Aska. In April 1995, he completed the project proposal and the following month he started working on the storyboard. A typical Studio Ghibli film would produce around 50,000 to 70,000 drawings, but for Princess Mononoke, more than 140,000 were made. Miyazaki was said to have put an ext...
Transition to Digital
Princess Mononoke became known as the last film to use traditional cel-animation. The earliest use of CG in a Ghibli production was for Chage and Aska's animated music video, On Your Mark (1995) which was made prior to Mononoke. At the time, Studio Ghibli had not had a dedicated IT department and its CG work had been outsourced to other studios. Computer animation such as fluid simulation and particle effects was used during five minutes of footage, including blood effects on creatures and Sa...
Background Art
Kazuo Oga, who was in charge of background art, visited Shirakami-Sanchi in 1995 to paint the village of Emishi, where the character Ashitakalives. He walked around Ajigasawa Town, Tsugaru Pass, Tengu Pass, Hitotsumori Town, etc.
The film was promoted with the tagline "Live" (生きろ, Ikiro). The inflection of the verb here indicates a meaning of encouragement, as in, "Please, live." The United States and United Kingdom DVD releases have both the English and Japanese soundtracks, together with subtitles for both the English dub and a more literal translation. At Miyazaki's insi...
The film was extremely successful in Japan, earning 19.3 billion yen and roughly 14.2 million viewers. As of May 2007, the total number of DVD and VHS shipped in Japan reached 4.4 million copies. During its first TV broadcast on January 22, 1999, on the Nippon Broadcasting block called, Friday Road Show, it recorded a massive 35.1% in the Kanto are...
Leonard Klady of Variety wrote a positive review of an early release of the picture. On Roger Ebert & The Movies, the film received two thumbs up from Harry Knowles and Roger Ebert. Ebert also gave the film four out of four stars in his print review.
See Soundtrack Princess Mononoke (Image Album) (イメージアルバムもののけ姫 , Mononoke Hime Imeeji Arubamu) was released by Tokuma Japan Communications July 22, 1996. Princess Mononoke (OST) (もののけ姫 サントラ盤 , Mononoke Hime Saundotorakku) was released by Tokuma Japan Communications on July 2, 1997. It was composed by Joe Hisaishiand features Yoshikazu Mera.
Best Picture; The 21st Japanese Academy AwardsBest Japanese Movie, Best Animation, and Japanese Movie Fans' Choice; The 52nd Mainichi Movie CompetitionBest Japanese Movie and Readers' Choice; Asahi Best Ten Film FestivalExcellent Movie Award; The Agency for Cultural AffairsPrincess Mononoke (Japanese: もののけ姫, Hepburn: Mononoke-hime) is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu. The film stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi ...
San (サン), otherwise known as Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫, "Mononoke hime") or the "Wolf Girl / Princess", is the main character, along with Ashitaka, in Princess Mononoke. She acts, behaves, and resembles a wolf due to the fact that she was raised by wolves themselves.
San (known as Princess Mononoke or the "Wolf Girl") is the titular protagonist of the Studio Ghibli film Princess Mononoke.
Princess Mononoke (Japanese: もののけ姫, Hepburn: Mononoke - hime) is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu.
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Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫 Mononoke-hime) is a 1997 anime epic historical fantasy adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was animated by Studio Ghibli and produced by Toshio Suzuki.
