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Writer:
Hayao Miyazaki (written by)
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Release Date:
26 marraskuu 1999 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Fate Of The World Rests On The Courage Of One Warrior.
Plot:
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and Tataraba, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
11 wins & 5 nominations more
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I'm going to show you how to kill a god more (454 total)

Cast

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Yôji Matsuda ... Ashitaka (voice)
Yuriko Ishida ... San (voice)
Yûko Tanaka ... Eboshi-gozen (voice)
Kaoru Kobayashi ... Jiko-bô (voice)
Masahiko Nishimura ... Kouroku (voice)
Tsunehiko Kamijô ... Gonza (voice)
Sumi Shimamoto ... Toki (voice)
Tetsu Watanabe ... Yama-inu (voice)
Mitsuru Satô ... Tatari-gami (voice)
Akira Nagoya ... Usi-kai (voice)
Akihiro Miwa ... Moro-no-kimi (voice)
Mitsuko Mori ... Hii-sama (voice)
Hisaya Morishige ... Okkoto-nusi (voice)
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Pamela Adlon ... Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Pamela Segall)

Gillian Anderson ... Moro (voice: English version)
Lewis Arquette ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Corey Burton ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jennifer Cihi ... Tatara's Women Song (voice: English version)

Billy Crudup ... Ashitaka (voice: English version)

Claire Danes ... San (voice: English version)

Keith David ... Okkoto / Additional Voices (voice: English version)

John DeMita ... Kohroku (voice: English version)

Debi Derryberry ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
John Di Maggio ... Gonza / Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Minnie Driver ... Lady Eboshi (voice: English version)

Alex Fernandez ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jack Fletcher ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Julia Fletcher ... Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Julia DeMita)

Pat Fraley ... Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Patrick Fraley)
Takako Fuji ... Woman in Iron Town
John Hostetter ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Leslie Ishii ... Tatara's Women Song (voice: English version)
Yoshimasa Kondô ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
John Rafter Lee ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Sherry Lynn ... Iron Town Woman / Emishi Villiage Girl (voice: English version)
Tress MacNeille ... Iron Town Woman / Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn ... Tatara's Women Song (voice: English version)

Matt McKenzie ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Michael McShane ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Matt K. Miller ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Marnie Mosiman ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Adam Paul ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Jada Pinkett Smith ... Toki (voice: English version)
David Rasner ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kimihiro Reizei ... Jibashiri (voice)
Dwight Schultz ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Tara Strong ... Kaya (voice: English version)

Billy Bob Thornton ... Jigo (voice: English version)
K.T. Vogt ... Complaining Wife (voice: English version)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Princess Mononoke (UK) (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for images of violence and gore.
Runtime:
134 min
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Leonardo DiCaprio was originally considered for the part of Ashitaka. more
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Factual errors: In the movie, Lady Eboshi mentions iron for "Lord Asano and his samurai," however Lord Asano lived 1667-1701 - well after the Tokugawa shogunate seclusion laws that banned firearms. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: In ancient times, the land lay covered in forests, where, from ages long past, dwelt the spirits of the gods. Back then, man and beast lived in harmony, but as time went by, most of the great forests were destroyed. Those that remained were guarded by gigantic beasts who owed their allegiances to the Great Forest Spirit, for those were the days of gods and of demons.
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Referenced in The 100 Greatest Cartoons (2005) (TV) more

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46 out of 53 people found the following review useful.
I'm going to show you how to kill a god, 19 tammikuu 2005
10/10
Author: composer_mike from Edoass

-The story here is very, very, epic and grand in its scale. One moment we're in a tiny little village watching people defend themselves from a boar gone mad with hatred to the next walking around in a vast forest that is home to gods. It never feels drawn out or boring but just as long and as epic as it needs to be. All the characters help the movie achieve its pseudo fantasy and realistic feel to it by not being the clichéd fantasy movie characters that were used to seeing. There are no wizards nor is there a great sword that will change the course of mankind but instead the characters are all normal people trying to make the best of their lives in a world filled with giant wolves and clacking white spirits called Okudamas. Eboshi is played out as the villain but she's not really evil more like an opportunist trying to make it in the world, it's just that the way she achieves her goals is what makes her a bit dodgy. San and Ashitaka are great and both go through their own little journeys but I think Eboshi is the one that people will walk away talking about.

-The sense of magic married with realism is what sells the movie for me. On one hand it's a pure fantasy movie with talking animals and spirits of the forest where as on the other hand is a very real sad story of humans moving into the animals' field and cutting down trees which leads to the animals losing their god like abilities and pretty much driving them to the brink of extinction. Miyazaki somehow combines these two elements and creates a very real fantasy movie that after a while you start to think could have actually happened which is great credit to him and everyone else involved in the story. I love "Two Towers" with a very strong passion but that is one fantasy movie that you know is pure fantasy and can never actually happen where as in this movie you get the feeling that is happened a very long time ago.

-That dazed and lost feeling you get when you first wake up in the morning or the feeling you get when you're driving on the highway around 6 a.m. and the sun is starting to crack is what Joe Hisashi captures with the score in the movie. It has this mystical feel to it without being too overly dramatic which is not to say that there isn't great action cues because the movie is loaded with them. I love that little string set he plays for the scene when the Boar god slowly falls to the ground after he's shot in the eye, and that great action piece he does for when Ashitaka calls on his Yak then starts to fix his arrow is also amazing but the real treat with the music here is the odd dreamlike stuff he writes. There is a great scene in the movie when the Spirit of the Forest is walking back to his land and in that scene Hisashi plays this really odd music that captures the whole off kilter feel of the character and more importantly it's great to listen to. At the end when everything is said and done and the trees are growing back he has this great piano accompanied by soft strings that's so beautiful that I dare anyone not to fall for it after listening to it.

-What they did with the animals in the movie is really amazing because unlike most animated movies their faces aren't animated to match that of humans nor do their lips move when they talk. One great thing that I really love about the English 5.1 is how the sound mixers added in some animal sounds for their speech. When Moro speaks we hear low growling wolf sounds which is appropriate since she is a wolf and the boars speak you hear pig squealing sounds. That approach makes them a tad more realistic instead of having their lips move around and make them seem like comedic characters instead of the gods they're suppose to be. The Okudamas in the movie are absolutely adorable and do provide some moments of humor in the story. They pretty much look like glorified fire flies with white skins and black spots to represent their faces. It's cool the way they can phase in out of things with ease and that playful demeanor they have does fit them properly. The cracking sound they make every now and then is pretty adorable too although when they all join in and do it does get a bit frustrating. If were up to me the whole movie would be about them but it's probably best that it's not up to me.

-If you like your fantasies loud and tongue in cheek then you probably won't like this but those looking for an intelligent fantasy movie that absolutely gets it right then you'll do no better than this.

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