Oh no! Yoshi and all his pals trampled the review...guess Kihou will have to clean up some time soon...
Shawn, my good friend, has writen another review (like the Akira page). Thanks a bunch Shawn!!
Princess Mononoke begins with a young man
named Ashitaka encountering a hideous boar
covered in writhing worms. The boar is on a rampage
and threatens several members of his
village including his younger sister. Ashitaka bravely
battles the boar and successfully kills it,
even though he is wounded in the process. The wound is
no simple one, for the boar had become
a demon and Ashitaka now bears its curse. He is forced
to leave his village to look for a way to
free himself from the curse and hopefully discover why
the boar had become a demon.
Ashitaka's journey eventually leads him to a
fortress-like town named "Irontown". The people of
Irontown, under the rule of Lady Eboshi, have been
mining iron from within a nearby mountain.
It is with this iron that they are able to manufacture
early forms of rifles, crude by today's
standards, but very devastating nonetheless. The
mining, however, has resulted in the destruction
of the forest which once covered the mountainside. The
creatures of the forest are none to
pleased with being driven from their homes, none more
than Moro, a giant wolf god, and her
adopted human daughter, San. San has been repeatedly
attacking the humans of Irontown in an
attempt to drive them away. Ashitaka, though, believes
that the humans and animals can get
along peacefully and this lands him squarely in the
middle of the conflict. (I'll let you watch this
movie to find the end!)
Rating: 7/10
Purpose of Title~I don't really know why she's called the Princess Mononoke, but perhaps she's the princess of the forest. *shrug* interpret it as you will.
Rating~PG-13 for Violence and Mature Situations
Throughout the course of the movie, Ashitaka meets a
bewildering array of characters, all of
which have Japanese names, and all of which were
somehow important to the plot. These
characters included the Princess (who, for some reason
usually isn't called Mononoke during the
film, but "San"), enormous white wolves (who raised
Mononoke, other known as, San, from
infancy), a town of iron-smithers run by Lady Eboshi,
who hires women to work for her, various
bandits, soldiers and outcasts, a tribe of boars, mute
but cut and funny forest spirits, and a regal
forest spirit.
