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Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) [Audio: Eng]
On a quest to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, a prince finds himself in the middle of a war between a forest princess and the encroachment of mechanization.
20 May 1952, Tacoma, Washington, USA
2 November 1956
7 March 1940, Nagano, Japan
6 January 1959, New York City, New York, USA
4 September 1968, North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
22 July 1967, Miami, Florida, USA
20 June 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 December 1935, Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 February 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 February 1960, Rockville Center, New York, USA
November 27, 2013
Miyazaki's world is stunning for its richness and imagination.
November 27, 2013
Beautifully constructed and painstakingly written, this is about as close to a perfect animated epic as you're likely to get.
November 27, 2013
Miyazaki's hordes of animators haven't penetrated beyond the skin; the moving creatures feel inarticulate and jerky, almost weightless, particularly when played against painterly background mattes.
November 27, 2013
This imaginative and intriguing Anime deserves all the plaudits heaped upon it.
February 20, 2014
Princess Mononoke's greatest feat is in crafting a story that could've been so easily simple, but manages to be more morally complex than even the most epic live-action films.
November 17, 2014
It's one of Ghibli and Miyazaki's many animated masterpieces.
December 07, 2014
Done mostly in the style of hand-painted classic animation, with occasional digital assists, "Princess Mononoke is indeed a thing of beauty and imagination.
November 27, 2013
With a Luminist's attention to light, water, shadow and smoke, Miyazaki creates an epochal story born of history, myth and Shinto animism.
November 27, 2013
This handsome, beautifully designed Japanese animated film has the size -- though not the clarity -- of a great Japanese film epic.
November 27, 2013
The film's strength lies in its refusal to paint either its arguments or its characters in black and white: There are no pure heroes, no clear-cut villains and no pat answers.
December 07, 2014
[Miyazaki's] visually brilliant, thematically rich fable isn't just an ambitious cartoon; it's an epic, hand-drawn in pen and ink.
February 16, 2017
A spellbinding epic with great characters, visuals and pathos.

