Princess Mononoke
The 1997 Japanese award-winning film "Princess Mononoke" stands out as Miyazaki's version of "The Snow Queen". According to research in the anthology "Introducing Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess: From Mononokehime to Princess Mononoke" by film historian Julia Alekseyeva, many familiar patterns are apparent between the two films. Both films try to exhibit "emotional and affective realism." Affective realism was an innovative take on animation in the twentieth century that emphasize the exhibition of emotions. Many of the characters in "Princess Mononoke" have an uncanny and spectral uniformity to the characters in the "The Snow Queen." "Princess Mononoke" can be seen as a tribute by Miyazaki to the Soviet Union film"."