One of Miyazaki's Best

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2003)

This movie was it for me. I am a huge fan of anything Japanese, and this movie has played a big role in perpetuating that. It's such an amazing work of art. This movie follows a young warrior-prince named Ashitaka in feudal Japan who sets off to find a cure for a curse he incurred by defending his village from a demon. It explores how humanity's seemingly harmless sins, greed most prominent among them, can snowball into atrocious acts of shockingly great magnitudes. I advise anyone and everyone to see this. Disregard the fact that it's animated; Japanese animation has proven time and again that characters drawn on a piece of paper have no less depth than that of one portrayed by a live actor. Princess Mononoke remains one of my favorite movies.