The forest and kodama begin to die Moro's head comes alive and bites off Eboshi's right arm, but she survives.Īfter the samurai flee and Irontown is evacuated, Ashitaka and San pursue Jigo and retrieve the head, returning it to the Forest Spirit. It bleeds ooze which spreads over the land, killing anything it touches as the nightwalker searches for its head, which Jigo steals. As it transforms into the nightwalker, Eboshi decapitates it.
The Forest Spirit euthanizes Okkoto and Moro. Moro intervenes and Ashitaka dives into the corruption, saving San. San tries to stop Okkoto, but is swept up in his demonic corruption. Jigo's men disguise themselves in boar skins and trick the rampaging Okkoto into leading them to the Forest Spirit. The boar clan is annihilated in battle, and Okkoto is corrupted by his wounds. According to legend, the Forest Spirit's head grants immortality.Īshitaka recovers from his wound but remains cursed he returns to Irontown to find it besieged by samurai, and heads out to warn Eboshi. Eboshi prepares for battle and sets out to kill the Forest Spirit with Jigo, who is working for the government she intends to give the god's head to the Emperor in return for protection from Lord Asano. A boar clan, led by the blind boar god Okkoto, plans to attack Irontown to save the forest. She takes him to the forest, and decides to trust him after the Forest Spirit saves his life. San awakens and prepares to kill the weakened Ashitaka, but hesitates when he tells her that she is beautiful. As he leaves, he is unintentionally shot by a villager, but the curse gives him the strength to carry San out of the village. San infiltrates Irontown to kill Eboshi, but Ashitaka intervenes, knocking them both unconscious. Eboshi also explains that San was raised by the wolves as one of their own and resents humankind. Irontown is a refuge for social outcasts, including lepers employed to manufacture firearms it was one of these guns that had wounded Nago.
In Irontown, Ashitaka learns that Eboshi built the town by clearcutting forests to claim ironsand and produce iron, leading to conflicts with the forest gods and Asano, a local daimyō. Ashitaka discovers two injured Irontown men and carries them through the forest, where he encounters many kodama and glimpses the Forest Spirit. Riding one of the wolves is San, a human girl. Nearby, men herd oxen to Irontown ("Tataraba" in Japanese), led by Lady Eboshi, and repel an attack by a wolf pack led by the wolf goddess Moro. Heading west, Ashitaka meets Jigo ("Jiko-bō" in the original Japanese version), an opportunist Buddhist monk, who tells Ashitaka he may find help from the Great Forest Spirit, a deer-like animal god by day and a giant "nightwalker" by night. Before Ashitaka leaves, his younger sister Kaya gives him her crystal dagger so that he would not forget her. The village's wise woman tells Ashitaka that he may find a cure in the western lands Nago came from, but he cannot return to his homeland. The villagers discover that the demon was a boar god, Nago, corrupted by an iron ball lodged in his body. The curse gives him superhuman strength, but will eventually spread through his body and kill him. The last Emishi prince, Ashitaka, kills it before it reaches the village, but its corruption curses his right arm. In Muromachi Japan, an Emishi village is attacked by a demon. It was dubbed into English and distributed in North America by Miramax, and despite a poor box office performance there, it sold well on DVD and video, greatly increasing Ghibli's popularity and influence outside Japan.
It was a critical and commercial blockbuster, becoming the highest-grossing film in Japan of 1997, and also held Japan's box office record for domestic films until 2001's Spirited Away, another Miyazaki film. The film was released in Japan on July 12, 1997, and in the United States on October 29, 1999. The term "Mononoke"(物の怪) or もののけ is not a name, but a Japanese word for a spirit or monster: supernatural, shape-shifting beings. The story follows the young Emishi prince Ashitaka's involvement in a struggle between the gods of a forest and the humans who consume its resources. Princess Mononoke is set in the late Muromachi period (approximately 1336 to 1573) of Japan with fantasy elements. The film stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Tsunehiko Kamijo, Akihiro Miwa, Mitsuko Mori and Hisaya Morishige. My Neighbors the Yamadas Princess Mononoke (Japanese: もののけ姫 Hepburn: ' Mononoke-hime', "Spirit/Monster Princess") is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy war film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu, and distributed by Toho.
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