Ghibli at GFC 2024: Princess Mononoke (1997)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 134 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1997
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson, John DiMaggio, Minnie Driver
Country: Japan
Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles
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See the Ghibli at GFC 2024 lineupAbout the film:
From the legendary Studio Ghibli comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity.
Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.
“Beautifully constructed and painstakingly written, this is about as close to a perfect animated epic as you’re likely to get.”
—Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times
About the filmmaker:
One of Japan’s most distinctive filmmakers, Hayao Miyazaki’s stories consider the conflict between human progress and nature with the existence of the spirit world alongside the mundane. Before founding Studio Ghibli, he worked for various animation studios and crafted his first feature films Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979) and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). With fellow animator and longtime collaborator, Takahata Isao, he launched Studio Ghibli in 1985 and began producing some of most iconic hand-drawn animated films of all time, including My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), and The Wind Rises (2013). In 2015, Miyazaki received an honorary Academy Award for his impact on animation and cinema, and his most recent film The Boy and the Heron (2023) won Best International Feature.
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