Mononoke Hime


Princess Mononoke

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Mononoke Hime
Japanese: もののけ姫
English: Princess Mononoke
German: Prinzessin Mononoke
Spanish: La Princesa Mononoke
French: Princesse Mononoké
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Information

Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 12, 1997
Licensors: GKIDS
Studios: Studio Ghibli
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, Award WinningAward Winning, FantasyFantasy
Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 8.661 (scored by 843635843,635 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #742
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #106
Members: 1,307,633
Favorites: 22,869

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Synopsis

When an Emishi village is attacked by a fierce demon boar, the young prince Ashitaka puts his life at stake to defend his tribe. With its dying breath, the beast curses the prince's arm, granting him demonic powers while gradually siphoning his life away. Instructed by the village elders to travel westward for a cure, Ashitaka arrives at Tatara, the Iron Town, where he finds himself embroiled in a fierce conflict: Lady Eboshi of Tatara, promoting constant deforestation, stands against Princess San and the sacred spirits of the forest, who are furious at the destruction brought by the humans. As the opposing forces of nature and mankind begin to clash in a desperate struggle for survival, Ashitaka attempts to seek harmony between the two, all the while battling the latent demon inside of him. Princess Mononoke is a tale depicting the connection of technology and nature, while showing the path to harmony that could be achieved by mutual acceptance.

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Background

In 1997 the film won Best Japanese Movie, Best Animation and Japanese Movie Fans' Choice awards during the 52nd Mainichi Film Awards. In 1998 the film won the Best Picture award during the 21st Japan Academy Awards.

Characters & Voice Actors

San

Main
Ishida, Yuriko
Japanese

Ashitaka

Main
Matsuda, Youji
Japanese

Gozen, Eboshi

Supporting
Tanaka, Yuko
Japanese

Kodama

Supporting

Yakul

Supporting

Moro

Supporting
Miwa, Akihiro
Japanese

The Forest Spirit

Supporting
Iinuma, Kei
Japanese

Jiko, Bou

Supporting
Kobayashi, Kaoru
Japanese

Toki

Supporting
Shimamoto, Sumi
Japanese

Okkoto

Supporting
Morishige, Hisaya
Japanese

Staff

Suzuki, Toshio
Producer
Miyazaki, Hayao
Director, Theme Song Lyrics, Screenplay, Creator
Gaiman, Neil
Script
Pannetier, Jean-Marc
Script, ADR Director


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"Ashitaka Sekki (アシタカせっき; The Legend of Ashitaka)" by Joe Hisaishi
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Ending Theme

"Mononoke Hime" by Joe Hisaishi




Reviews

Jan 20, 2025
For the first thirty minutes i was enchanted by the animation, focused almost exclusively on that, trying to absorb the beautiful scenery of forest life. The weird and eerie surprised me, in a good way. It was deffinetely not what i was expecting after watching arcadian Howl's moving castle and Whisperer of the Heart. So, yes, Miyazaki certainly gets recognition for a reason.
I can't say i adore this movie, simply because this is not the kind of fantasy that takes you to an incredible ride through some distant harmonious universe where everything seems better arranged and more connected with nature, cosmos, atoms. Here, we ...
Jan 31, 2023
Mixed Feelings
I don't get the hype of the movie. I watched it, and it was Fine. Not amazing as most people seem to think. If this movie was exactly the same but made by anyone else than Ghibli, i belive it would just been an anime lost in time, Howl's Flying castle was more entertaining to me. The animation was fine, great landscapes, clean but flat animation, not much depth on the charecters, but that is the style of Ghibli so that is fine. Story is nice and linear but also predictable, you know what will happen 5 minutes before it does. I think people ...
Feb 2, 2025
FunnyFunny
Hella boring, environmentalist propaganda.

Girl raised by wolves that eat people is actually super empathetic and loves nature you know. Oh but she HATES humans. Why? Because people chop down woods to make guns. Then there is a guy that is like pretty chill but attracted to the girl, she never reciprocates these feelings though so it is just weird following this guy trying to rizz up this girl that clearly shows 0 interest. (I think she might be furry ifykwim). Quite disgusting stuff tbh. Then there is massive tar invasion explosion, which I think is a reference to hiroshima and nagasaki. I think the creator ...

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