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Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke
Studio Ghibli
Original title: Mononoke-hime
Characters:
Ashitaka, San, Kaya, Patrona Moro, Eccelsa Eboshi, Jiko, Toki, Nume Okkoto, Gonza, Somma Hii
Author: Hayao Miyazaki
Production: Studio Ghibli
Regia:Hayao Miyazaki
Country: Japan
Year: 1997
Broadcast in Italy: 8 May 2014
Gender: Adventure / Fantasy
Episodes: 49
Duration: 134 minutes
Recommended age: Teenagers aged 13 to 19

Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime), the 1997 feature film produced by Studio Ghibli and signed by the Japanese animation master Miyazaki Hayao, awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Film in 2003 thanks to The enchanted city (2001) and with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, in 2005, he returns to our Italian cinemas, to the delight of the many Italian fans still shaken by his farewell to the stage: The wind rises (2013), in fact, his most recent work, presented to the public during the 2013 Venice International Film Festival, in cinemas all over Italy from next September, has been announced as his latest work. Passed fleetingly in our cinemas in May 2000 thanks to Buena Vista disneyana, distributor of the latest edition on DVD now a cult object for fans of the filmography of the Japanese author, Principessa Mononoke will be released in a new guise (renewed dialogue and dubbing), by Lucky red as part of the week dedicated to Film Festival (8-15 May 2014).

The genesis of the film, one of the major commercial successes of Studio Ghibli, founded in 1985 by Miyazaki and his colleague Takahata Isao, has been somewhat troubled: just think that the production went on for months without the staff having a proper script in their hands. Miyazaki, in fact, after having created a summary plot of the story, decided to proceed following the creative vein of the moment.

Prince Ashitaka and Yacul - Princess Mononoke
Prince Ashitaka and Yacul
Studio Ghibli

The story, set in an unspecified Japanese Middle Ages, tells of Prince Ashitaka, a young but brave warrior who, wounded by the gigantic Nago boar transformed into a demon, abandons his village riding the Yakul steed to go in search of the entities that generated the monstrous creature, as well as a healing: the injury caused by the demon, in fact, could be fatal in a short time.

Yashitaka becomes aware of the existence of forest of the deer god: this deity, also known by the name of He-who-walks-in-the-night or You did scribbles, could help him and the boy sets off towards the forest, inhabited by fantastic creatures called Kodama, from voracious monkeys and gigantic animals.

The young man runs into San, Princess Mononoke, a girl raised by colossal white wolves who hates humans and who lives in the forest, far from civilization, and in Eboshi, the woman at the head of the Iron City who, supplying her forges with wood from the woods, is rapidly destroying the surrounding environment. After an initial conflict, San is impressed by Ashitaka's courage and valor who, in a short time, falls in love with her, reciprocated.

The Deer God wards off the death of Ashitaka, but, after escaping the attack of the Nago boar herd, seeking revenge for the death of their leader, the boy is forced to leave the forest by Moro, the gigantic she-wolf who she has looked after San since she was little. Ashitaka reluctantly accepts the detachment, but, on the way home, she witnesses an attack on the Iron City by a gang of bloodthirsty samurai and tries to warn Eboshi, engaged in a hunt for the Deer God: the woman , in fact, allied with Jiro, emissary of the Emperor, she intends to kill the creature to deliver to the monarch the head of the mythological animal with a human face, to which exceptional thaumaturgical powers are attributed.

San and Ashitaka will be able to avoid the final destruction of the magical forest and the death of the You did scribbles?

Ashitaka and San, Princess Mononoke
Ashitaka and San, Princess Mononoke
Studio Ghibli

Legend has it that, at the time of the making of the film, the first in which Studio Ghibli decided to adopt, albeit discreetly and with objectively surprising results, the then innovative technique of computer graphics, Miyazaki-san was afflicted with excruciating pain to the right arm, the very one with which he drew: despite the use of a special paper, thanks to which it was necessary to give less pressure to the pencil during the act of drawing, Hayao suffered enormously and the acupuncture sessions to which he underwent seemed not have no effect. Therefore, Miyazaki was strongly convinced that Principessa Mononoke it would be his last job. It does not seem a coincidence, therefore, that the protagonist, Ashitaka, also suffers from a painful deficiency in the same arm used by Miyazaki to draw and the epic inspiration, enhanced by the superb music by Hisaishi Joe, which pervades the film.

Princess Mononoke Among the prominent titles produced by Studio Ghibli so far: it is a film full of contradictions, in which the dualities converge to which Miyazaki has always paid enormous attention, even in the context of his minor productions.

Princess Mononoke and the wolves
Mononoke and wolves
Studio Ghibli

The original title clearly expresses the conflict that underlies the story: in Japanese, Mononoke corresponds to a kind of avenging deity e Hime means `` princess ''. The ambivalence of the protagonist, a wolf-girl torn between her own human nature and the feral ascendant instilled in her by the creatures that raised her, is reflected in the man-nature conflict represented by the Iron City-forest contrast of the Deer God: there one cannot do without the other and, often, the measure of this need goes beyond real needs. As often happens in Miyazaki's filmography, it is the female characters who are the most complex ones: the figure of Eboshi, perfect counterpart to San, is elusive, elusive, she is neither good nor bad and underlines the inevitable war that each of us fights between the ideal and the real.

Aesthetically, Principessa Mononoke A satisfying film, flawless from a visual and chromatic point of view: just think of the extreme care with which the rich vegetation of the sacred forest was represented or the attention with which samurai clothing is reproduced, inspired by the original one of the Tokugawa period (c.1600).

Princess Mononoke is a coming-of-age tale full of vibrant emotions, the bearer of an ecological message, as fascinating as an ancient tale of adventure. Unmissable.

Source: www.cartonionline.com

 

Porco Rosso
Original title:  Mononoke Hime
Country:  Japan
Year:  1997
Gender:  Entrainment
Duration:  150 '
Directed by:  Hayao Miyazaki
Official site:  http://www.princess-mononoke.com/
Production:  Studio Ghibli
Distribution:  Lucky Red
Exit :  08 May 2014 at the cinema
Dvd Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke is copyright Studio Ghibli. All rights reserved.

 

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