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Director:
Writer:
Hayao Miyazaki (written by)
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Release Date:
26 November 1999 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Fate Of The World Rests On The Courage Of One Warrior.
Plot:
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and Tataraba, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
11 wins & 5 nominations more
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(36 articles)
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User Reviews:
An extremely good movie that superseded my preconceptions about the animation style it is presented in. more (454 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Yôji Matsuda ... Ashitaka (voice)
Yuriko Ishida ... San (voice)
Yûko Tanaka ... Eboshi-gozen (voice)
Kaoru Kobayashi ... Jiko-bô (voice)
Masahiko Nishimura ... Kouroku (voice)
Tsunehiko Kamijô ... Gonza (voice)
Sumi Shimamoto ... Toki (voice)
Tetsu Watanabe ... Yama-inu (voice)
Mitsuru Satô ... Tatari-gami (voice)
Akira Nagoya ... Usi-kai (voice)
Akihiro Miwa ... Moro-no-kimi (voice)
Mitsuko Mori ... Hii-sama (voice)
Hisaya Morishige ... Okkoto-nusi (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Pamela Adlon ... Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Pamela Segall)

Gillian Anderson ... Moro (voice: English version)
Lewis Arquette ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Corey Burton ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jennifer Cihi ... Tatara's Women Song (voice: English version)

Billy Crudup ... Ashitaka (voice: English version)

Claire Danes ... San (voice: English version)

Keith David ... Okkoto / Additional Voices (voice: English version)

John DeMita ... Kohroku (voice: English version)

Debi Derryberry ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
John Di Maggio ... Gonza / Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Minnie Driver ... Lady Eboshi (voice: English version)

Alex Fernandez ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jack Fletcher ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Julia Fletcher ... Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Julia DeMita)

Pat Fraley ... Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Patrick Fraley)
Takako Fuji ... Woman in Iron Town
John Hostetter ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Leslie Ishii ... Tatara's Women Song (voice: English version)
Yoshimasa Kondô ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
John Rafter Lee ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Sherry Lynn ... Iron Town Woman / Emishi Villiage Girl (voice: English version)
Tress MacNeille ... Iron Town Woman / Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn ... Tatara's Women Song (voice: English version)

Matt McKenzie ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Michael McShane ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Matt K. Miller ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Marnie Mosiman ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Adam Paul ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Jada Pinkett Smith ... Toki (voice: English version)
David Rasner ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kimihiro Reizei ... Jibashiri (voice)
Dwight Schultz ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Tara Strong ... Kaya (voice: English version)

Billy Bob Thornton ... Jigo (voice: English version)
K.T. Vogt ... Complaining Wife (voice: English version)
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Also Known As:
Princess Mononoke (UK) (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for images of violence and gore.
Runtime:
134 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Contrary to what some may think, the English dialogue in the American version is not a direct translation from Japanese to English. One only has to turn on "Straight Japanese to English translation subtitles" on the DVD to see that dialogue was paraphrased into comfortable American English. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: In the movie, Lady Eboshi mentions iron for "Lord Asano and his samurai," however Lord Asano lived 1667-1701 - well after the Tokugawa shogunate seclusion laws that banned firearms. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: In ancient times, the land lay covered in forests, where, from ages long past, dwelt the spirits of the gods. Back then, man and beast lived in harmony, but as time went by, most of the great forests were destroyed. Those that remained were guarded by gigantic beasts who owed their allegiances to the Great Forest Spirit, for those were the days of gods and of demons.
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There was no one in the movie called Princess Mononoke, so who was she?
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17 out of 17 people found the following review useful.
An extremely good movie that superseded my preconceptions about the animation style it is presented in., 21 April 2007
8/10
Author: beardyfriesen from United States

A few years ago I would have tossed this film into a collection of movies I like to call the rubbish pile. Recently, however, I have forced myself, with great difficulty, to open my mind and look at the entire picture. Instead of focusing on one or two aspects of the movie I do not like and formulating a biased opinion based on my hasty and clouded notions, I can now decipher both the good and bad points of a given flick. Upon watching Princess Mononoke, I must say I first thought it would be very difficult to look past the animation style and see it for what it was- a dynamic film directed be the highly acclaimed Hayao Miyazaki. After about ten minutes of dwelling on the follies (and there are, in my opinion, many) of the "anime" style of art, I became enthralled with the quickly unfolding plot and the subsequently dire fate bestowed upon Ashitaka, the protagonist of the film. After Ashitaka leaves his village to search for a treatment to remedy his affliction, I no longer cared that this was an animated feature; I was on the edge of my seat, wondering what would happen next. I no longer disliked that every character had abnormally large eyes (though not over-sized to the point of utter absurdity) or that the English overdubbing was a little choppy. In fact, I even began to enjoy the accomplished yet subtle computer generated effects interspersed throughout. By the last half hour I was hooked to the screen, eagerly awaiting the conclusion I wanted so badly to end the bitter conflict of the plot. By the end, I realized that this movie carried a powerful moral with it: man's continuous tampering with nature brings about as much savagery as it does progress, as much suffering as it does good, and that a sound compromise must be struck between nature and civilization. I do not harbor any negative feelings towards those who rated this movie poorly, as I used to be one of those people. All I have to say to them is this: look at a both the visual and symbolic attributes of a movie before rating it harshly. If, after observing all these features and idiosyncrasies, you still wholeheartedly hate the film, then by all means give it a one. After all, what would the world be like if we were all did not criticize or question our surroundings?

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