The last hour-ish felt like it needed streamlining, with too much running back and forth all over the place.
However, while I really enjoyed the earlier parts, it begins to go on a bit towards the end. Some of the violence is exceptionally gory, though - I can’t believe this only got a PG (if it was live action it’d be a 15 easily, if not an 18). Naturally, it’s beautifully animated, both the natural splendour and the physicality of the world, including some superb action sequences. There’s little easy right or wrong here, with those on all sides coming across as nuanced individuals, with complicated relationships. He’s populated the narrative with interesting characters, too. The theme isn’t exactly subtle in the film, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t well portrayed. There’s more to it than that, because Miyazaki has imagined a very lyrical and meaningful story, about nature vs industry, and their possible coexistence. On the side of the gods is San, the titular princess (“mononoke” is not a name but an untranslated word, meaning an angry or vengeful spirit), a human girl raised by wolves who intends to kill Eboshi. On one is Lady Eboshi, who razed the forest to produce iron in Irontown (imaginative naming), which has become a refuge for social outcasts. Travelling to find a cure, he encounters the aforementioned war and finds himself torn between the two sides. Our hero is Ashitaka, a young prince who kills a demon but is infected by it. Set in medieval Japan, it’s a fantasy epic about the conflict between industrialising humans and the gods of the forest they’re destroying. But it’s also because it’s a stunning film in its own right. Still, Miyazaki refused to sell the rights until Miramax agreed to make no cuts, which, considering Harvey Weinstein’s scissor-happy reputation, was a wise move). This may be in part due to it being the first Studio Ghibli film afforded a US release since Nausicaä (that was a bad experience for director Hayao Miyazaki - the film was cut by 25 minutes and the dialogue was drastically changed - hence the moratorium until Miramax persuaded him otherwise.
#WATCH PRINCESS MONONOKE ENGLISH DUB MEGAVIDEO SERIES#
When I was first becoming aware of anime in the late ’90s, Princess Mononoke was one of the titles that everyone seemed to talk about (alongside the likes of Akira, and TV series like Cowboy Bebop and Neon Genesis Evangelion).
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