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Mood:
- AtmosphericOffbeatSincereEmotionalStylizedCaptivating
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Plot:
- AdventurerMaster WarriorSuperhuman PowersUninhibited RivalryCurses Spells and RitualsHeroic MissionDangerEscapades more...
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Genres:
- AdventureAnimationFantasyForeignAnimeAction
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Time/Period:
- Middle Ages
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Place:
- AsiaJapanVillageWildernessIn the Woods
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Audience:
- Family Outing
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically AcclaimedEssential
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Style:
- EpicVoice Over
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Attitudes:
- SeriousFantastic
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Score:
- Orchestral
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Flag:
- Mild Violent Content
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Princess Mononoke, 1997
Japanese
Japan
Profile of Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke can be described as offbeat, atmospheric, and sincere. The plot revolves around superhuman powers, an uninhibited rivalry, and adventurers. The main genres are foreign, animation, and fantasy. In terms of style, Princess Mononoke anime, is epic, and includes a voice over. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It is set, at least in part, in the woods, in the wilderness, and in a village. Princess Mononoke is located in Japan. It takes place in the middle ages. The soundtrack is orchestral. Princess Mononoke has received attention for being essential viewing, a blockbuster, and an award winner. It is well suited for a family outing. Note that it involves mild violent content.
Summary of 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, NAUSICAÄ 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.
Details
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country: | Japan |
| Release date: | 7 October 1999 |
| Runtime: | 134 min |
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as Ashitaka
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Janet Maslin
Salon.com
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- by: Andrew O'Hehir
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- 24.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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