A beautiful vision about people and nature

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2020)

The film is not limited to the destruction of the environment by mankind, but from the natural contradiction between man and nature that cannot be resolved, through the survival angle of mankind itself, to explore whether man and nature can truly achieve the ultimate proposition of harmony and coexistence.

The story takes place from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Ashitaka's tribe, the Aji, is located in the northeast of Japan. One day a wicked god from the West was going to invade the village where Ashitaka was. This wicked god was transformed from a cursed wild boar god.
Seeing the evil god stepping forward, Ashitaka came forward. Although he later killed the wild boar god, he was also cursed by the evil god, and his life could not be guaranteed. In order to resolve the mystery of the curse and save himself, Ashitaka followed the instructions of the witch in his village and went to the west to find out and seek a way out.

On the way, he inquired that the guardian god of the forest, the mountain beast god, could resolve this curse, and he set off to the forest. On the way, he rescued two people who transported iron ore to the valley and met Shan for the first time. These two people were from the iron smelting plant in Abercy.
In the iron workshop, he unveiled the cursed fan of the wild boar god: Abbey attacked the forest with a musket, and the wild boar god guarding the forest, the god of Nago, became a demon because of hatred after hitting her musket. That night, Shan came to attack the iron factory. She was actually the daughter of a human being raised by the white wolf god who was abandoned by humans.

Shan was in a critical situation with a few enemies, but Ashidaka was determined to save her, and he was shot for this. His life was in danger. The rescued Shan was touched by Ashidakar's sincerity and bravery. Asidakar was seriously injured, and Shan decided to take him to the forest to let the mountain beast god rescue him.

The mountain beast god rescued Ashitaka, at this time the wild boar swarms that were deeply harassed by humans decided to fight with humans to save their home forest. Shan, who loved the forest, wanted to protect the guardian of the forest and left Ashitaka. , Involved in the battle of the wild boar group and the joint army of Alberti and the samurai.
In the battle between Alberti and the wild boar herd, the wild boar herd was almost wiped out. In order to find the mountain beast god, the army and the samurai army put on the wild boar skin and painted the wild boar blood to track the retreating wild boar god and Shan.

As the mountain beast god's island approached, the army surrounded the wild boar gods and Shan and attacked them. The angry wild boar god will soon become a demon, and the shan to save it will also be implicated. Ashitaka, who has just arrived, wants to save shan, but he can't help it.
Seeing that the situation is irreversible, the mountain beast god overwhelmed the life of the wild boar god and thus prevented the wild boar god from becoming an evil god. At the same time, Ashitaka rescued Shan with the help of the white wolf god.

Albert West took the opportunity to shoot down the Mountain Beast God, and the White Wolf God saw it, struggling to bite off one arm of Albert West, and then died. The angry mountain beast god absorbs life to get his head back. In order to save the forest, Ashitaka and Shan finally recovered the head of the mountain beast god.
The mountain beast Shenyang, who had recovered from his head and lost his head, crashed to the ground and died. With his own death, he gave new vitality to the earth in an instant.

After saving the forest, Shan still couldn't relieve her crime of destroying the forest. She chose to return to the forest. Ashitaka respected Shan's choice. The two smiled in a lush green mountain.