environment mythicized in a Miyazakian-Japanese way!

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2006)

Ashitaka, saves his village from Nago, a demonized boar-god, but his arm is wounded and cursed in the fight.As the curse spreads from his arm to all of his body, he has a running amount of time to find a cure before it kills him in great suffering.As he sets out to find a cure to this curse he meets a strange monk and encounters wolfgods and a strange girl riding these huge wolfgods.He also meets Lady Eboshi who is not evil actually though she seems evil at first.Lady Eboshi campaigns continuous wars against the spirits of the forest so she can get its resources for her people, using fairly advanced guns made in Irontown.Though she is belligerent she cares for her own people who are consisted of lepers,former prostitutes,freed slaves etc.. The movie looks really gory just like some people wrote here on IMDb but it's just anime. I mean it's not scary or disgusting it has a gripping effect.The story of love and hate, war and peace, nature and darkness...I saw Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle before and I gotta say this is more realistic than both of them.It is true that tribes of intelligent boars,Kodamas(spirits) in the Deer God's forest, apes, and wolves, along with San (the mononoke princess of the title) who was raised by the wolves looks so mythical but one can evaluate the movie as an environment flick rendered in Japanase mythology.It can be viewed by anyone no matter how old one is!