My favorite film

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2001)

I really can't think of anything to say about this movie. It's almost too good. I can never watch it without wishing we had someone like Miyazaki-sama here in the States, or that we had more of his films on DVD, or that this movie had gotten the mainstream theatrical distribution it deserved. If Disney had been smart enough to release this film subtitled, with a real advertising campaign, it could have been more successful than Crouching Tiger. There's a reason why this is the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, and if its distributors had handled it better it could have won Best Foreign Film. Hell, it should have won Best Picture for 1997, and Jo Hisaishi ABSOLUTELY deserved the Best Original Score award.

But none of that happened. And that's why it's so hard to watch. Because Mononoke Hime is the best film of all time, and most Americans will never bother to see it.