13 Facts About Princess Mononoke

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Princess Mononoke is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu.

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Princess Mononoke is set in the late Muromachi period of Japan, but it includes fantasy elements.

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Princess Mononoke then manages to rescue two of the men fallen from the cliff and transports them back through the forest, where he briefly glimpses the Great Forest Spirit.

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Princess Mononoke's reveals that San, dubbed Princess Mononoke, was raised by the wolves and hates humankind.

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Princess Mononoke's decides to trust him after the Forest Spirit heals his bullet wound that night.

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Princess Mononoke had difficulties adapting his early ideas and visualisations, because elements had already been used in My Neighbor Totoro and because of societal changes since the creation of the original sketches and image boards.

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Deirdre M Pike writes that Princess Mononoke is simultaneously part of nature and part of the problem.

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Princess Mononoke represents the connection between the environment and humans, but demonstrates that there is an imbalance in power between the two.

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Princess Mononoke's holds no malicious intent toward nature and its spirits until they begin attacking her people.

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Princess Mononoke's brings them to Irontown and gives them jobs, hospitality, and a kindness that they have never experienced before.

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Princess Mononoke was the highest-grossing Japanese film of 1997, earning ¥11.

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In turn, Princess Mononoke was later surpassed by Spirited Away, when it aired in 2003.

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Princess Mononoke is the first animated feature film to win the Japan Academy Prize for Best Picture.

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