On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, th... Read allOn a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
- Awards
- 14 wins & 6 nominations
Yôji Matsuda
- Ashitaka
- (voice)
Yuriko Ishida
- San
- (voice)
- …
Yûko Tanaka
- Eboshi-gozen
- (voice)
Billy Crudup
- Ashitaka
- (English version)
- (voice)
Billy Bob Thornton
- Jigo
- (English version)
- (voice)
Minnie Driver
- Lady Eboshi
- (English version)
- (voice)
John DiMaggio
- Gonza
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
Claire Danes
- San
- (English version)
- (voice)
John DeMita
- Kohroku
- (English version)
- (voice)
Jada Pinkett Smith
- Toki
- (English version)
- (voice)
Gillian Anderson
- Moro
- (English version)
- (voice)
Keith David
- Okkoto
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
Corey Burton
- Additional Voices
- (English version)
- (voice)
Tara Strong
- Kaya
- (English version)
- (voice)
- (as Tara Charandoff)
- …
Julia Fletcher
- Additional Voices
- (English version)
- (voice)
- (as Julia DeMita)
Debi Derryberry
- Hii-sama
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
Alex Fernandez
- Additional Voices
- (English version)
- (voice)
Jack Fletcher
- Additional Voices
- (English version)
- (voice)
Hayao Miyazaki's Magic Worlds
Hayao Miyazaki's Magic Worlds
Explore the boundless imagination of animation director Hayao Miyazaki through some of our favorite images from his movies and series.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Harvey Weinstein obtained the North-American distribution rights to Princess Mononoke, he approached director Hayao Miyazaki and insisted on a shorter version of the film that would be better attuned to American audiences. However, Miyazaki was still so upset by the heavily cut version of his Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (released as 'Warriors of the Wind') that he angrily left the meeting. Several days later, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki sent a katana sword to Weinstein's office with 'NO CUTS' embedded into its blade. The film was later released in the USA in its uncut version. When asked about the incident in an interview, Miyazaki simply smiled and stated "I defeated him".
- GoofsWhile Eboshi and Jigo are speaking to each other in Irontown, Captain Gonza is seen standing directly behind Eboshi. The next scene shows a close-up of Jigo. The scene after that pans back to Eboshi and shows Gonza has been replaced with a man in a hat.
- Quotes
Osa: Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
- Crazy creditsThere are no opening credits.
- Alternate versionsWhen aired on Canadian cable channel, YTV, a slightly different earlier "rough-cut" version of the English dub aired instead of the theatrical version. This version features some different dialogue such as in the scene where Lady Eboshi first sees San, she calls her "Wolf beast" instead of "Princess Mononoke". The singing of the movie's theme is also left in Japanese and not dubbed into English for this version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Princess Mononoke: How the Film Was Conceived (1998)
- SoundtracksMononoke-Hime/Princess Mononoke Theme Song
(Japanese vocal version)
Lyrics By Hayao Miyazaki
Vocals by counter-tenor Yoshikazu Mera
Music composed by Joe Hisaishi
Music performed by Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Hiroshi Kumagai
Featured review
Allegory on the balance between humans and nature
This seems to be Miyazake's most personal work, clearly a serious design. It is set in an imaginary time which blends the time of the ancient gods (Shinto style, gods of place and nature) with the settlement of humans and the coming of metalworking and war. The world is not in balance, and a distant conflict between industry and nature has wounded one of the gods of the forest, which is then killed by a sentry boy as it rampages into farmland he guards. The evil controlling it transfers to him, beginning a slow takeover, and he must journey to the origin of the conflict to find a way to cure himself and incidentally, as he will learn, to try to restore balance. But this is not a simplistic tale, he finds there are other characters in play, and there is good and evil in everyone, and no easy balance. The Princess (Hime) of the story is a mysterious human who has been raised by wolves (which are themselves powerful forest gods, a little reminiscent of the Amerindian Coyote myth), who becomes both his ally and his enemy. The story is not easy to understand. It has many Japanese mythic elements but even then, it is a work of Miyazake's unique imagination, and is not intended to be simple or to have a clean resolution.
The animation is spectacular, and unusual, with new elements even for Miyazake and marks a new departure for style which you can see continued in his next film, Sen to Chihiro - more nature, more wild, more jamming on elements from Japanese myth and folklore. And, continuing the trend to be more personal, concerned with ethics and character, and less sci-fi. There are at least half a dozen well developed characters threaded through the story, and their animation is wonderful in displaying subtle character.
The original Japanese soundtrack has some amazing singing and draws upon some of the best talent available for voices - in Japan, Miyazake is universally known and this was a masterpiece carefully crafted. Japanese television documented a lot of the production. The English translation drew on some good talent but they seem not to have "gotten it" quite so intensely as the Japanese crew.
If you haven't seen Miyazake, give it a try (but maybe look at Sen to Chihiro first, or even Laputa or Kiki's Delivery Service, for easier and lighter introduction to his work). Some say he is the Japanese Disney, but I don't like that. His work has a depth and sophistication that goes beyond Disney cute. There is no other animation like it. This is truly an adult work: children might like some of the visuals, but I doubt that many kids below teen age will have any idea what it is all about, and even adults will get more out of this each time you see it again.
The animation is spectacular, and unusual, with new elements even for Miyazake and marks a new departure for style which you can see continued in his next film, Sen to Chihiro - more nature, more wild, more jamming on elements from Japanese myth and folklore. And, continuing the trend to be more personal, concerned with ethics and character, and less sci-fi. There are at least half a dozen well developed characters threaded through the story, and their animation is wonderful in displaying subtle character.
The original Japanese soundtrack has some amazing singing and draws upon some of the best talent available for voices - in Japan, Miyazake is universally known and this was a masterpiece carefully crafted. Japanese television documented a lot of the production. The English translation drew on some good talent but they seem not to have "gotten it" quite so intensely as the Japanese crew.
If you haven't seen Miyazake, give it a try (but maybe look at Sen to Chihiro first, or even Laputa or Kiki's Delivery Service, for easier and lighter introduction to his work). Some say he is the Japanese Disney, but I don't like that. His work has a depth and sophistication that goes beyond Disney cute. There is no other animation like it. This is truly an adult work: children might like some of the visuals, but I doubt that many kids below teen age will have any idea what it is all about, and even adults will get more out of this each time you see it again.
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- TanjBennett
- Apr 15, 2003
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Công Chúa Mononoke
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- ¥2,400,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,845,631
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $144,446
- Oct 31, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $170,203,640
- Runtime2 hours 14 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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