Princess Mononoke
Mononoke Hime
Region: 1 - U.S.A., Canada
Studio: Studio Ghibli Alliance Atlantis
Jahr: 1997
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Genre: Anime Fantasy
Regisseur: Hayao Miyazaki
Laufzeit: 2:14 (134 Minuten)
Beschreibung:"Princess Mononoke" is an extremely intelligent and sophisticated animated feature film that is a beautiful metaphor for the environmental disasters caused by the industrialization and its successive greed.
In the Japanese countryside, a beast is attacking a peaceful village. Ferocious and oozing evil, the demon beast kills everything in its path and only a heroic attack by Ashitaka, the prince of the village, puts a stop to it, just before it can lay waste to the village. But the victory has a price. Ashitaka has been infected by the demon's curse and the local wise woman tells him that the disease will spread and eventually kill him. Hatred is the source of the demon that possessed the monster, which turned out to be a giant boar, and it was seemingly caused by a small iron ball inside his flesh. The only way to heal his own curse is for Ashitaka to find the origin of the hatred and placate it before it consumes him.
So, Ashitaka sets out to find the source of the iron and after days of travelling he finally finds it. But it is nothing like he expected it to be. The evil is mankind itself. A city, ruled by Lady Eboshi, is making a living on forging iron and building rifles and guns, which in turn they use to kill the local wildlife to expand their own dominion. Lady Eboshi has also cleared large areas of forest, effectively destroying the wildlife habitat it represented. And the animals are in an uproar over her killing spree, fearing she may even kill the Forest Spirit itself, the superior being that reigns over life and death in the forests.
San, is a young girl, raised by wolves, who is also known as "Princess Mononoke," and she is determined to stop Lady Eboshi. She takes every opportunity to try to kill her and her people, not seeing that she is effectively driven by the same hatred and greed that makes humans her enemies. When Ashitaka begins to understand the implications that are the root of the problem, he becomes the target for both sides. Whom should he help? Lady Eboshi in her quest to dominate the world, or the animals and trees in the forest, to save their homes?