Sun July 28, 2013
Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1997)
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at Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
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Recommended for ages 12 and up
“A great film . . . one of the most visually inventive films I have ever seen.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
(Mononoke Hime). Princess Mononoke combines animist myths, Japanese folklore, a matriarchal heroine, and a “green planet” ethos for an epic cinematic experience. It achieves one of animation’s—and cinema’s—most wonderful effects: to fabricate a world, immaculately realized, that is at once unbelievable and believable. In a long-ago Japan, a war is raging for the future of the earth, one that sets the animal kingdom against humanity, nature against pollution, and harmony against chaos. Two humans stand between the worlds, and amid the bloodshed: San, a feral child raised by wolves, who considers herself animal and humans her enemies; and Ashitaka, a man whose peacefulness hides a great power, and an even greater curse. Inspired by Asian folklore and medieval Japanese legends (as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh), Princess Mononoke may have its roots in tales past, but Miyazaki invests it with a refreshingly modern (and progressive) agenda.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Miyazaki. Voices by Tsunehiko Kamijo, Kaoru Kobayashi, Toshimasa Kondo, Yoji Matsuda. (133 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)
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“A great film . . . one of the most visually inventive films I have ever seen.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
(Mononoke Hime). Princess Mononoke combines animist myths, Japanese folklore, a matriarchal heroine, and a “green planet” ethos for an epic cinematic experience. It achieves one of animation’s—and cinema’s—most wonderful effects: to fabricate a world, immaculately realized, that is at once unbelievable and believable. In a long-ago Japan, a war is raging for the future of the earth, one that sets the animal kingdom against humanity, nature against pollution, and harmony against chaos. Two humans stand between the worlds, and amid the bloodshed: San, a feral child raised by wolves, who considers herself animal and humans her enemies; and Ashitaka, a man whose peacefulness hides a great power, and an even greater curse. Inspired by Asian folklore and medieval Japanese legends (as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh), Princess Mononoke may have its roots in tales past, but Miyazaki invests it with a refreshingly modern (and progressive) agenda.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Miyazaki. Voices by Tsunehiko Kamijo, Kaoru Kobayashi, Toshimasa Kondo, Yoji Matsuda. (133 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)
Recommended for ages 12 and up
“A great film . . . one of the most visually inventive films I have ever seen.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
(Mononoke Hime). Princess Mononoke combines animist myths, Japanese folklore, a matriarchal heroine, and a “green planet” ethos for an epic cinematic experience. It achieves one of animation’s—and cinema’s—most wonderful effects: to fabricate a world, immaculately realized, that is at once unbelievable and believable. In a long-ago Japan, a war is raging for the future of the earth, one that sets the animal kingdom against humanity, nature against pollution, and harmony against chaos. Two humans stand between the worlds, and amid the bloodshed: San, a feral child raised by wolves, who considers herself animal and humans her enemies; and Ashitaka, a man whose peacefulness hides a great power, and an even greater curse. Inspired by Asian folklore and medieval Japanese legends (as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh), Princess Mononoke may have its roots in tales past, but Miyazaki invests it with a refreshingly modern (and progressive) agenda.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Miyazaki. Voices by Tsunehiko Kamijo, Kaoru Kobayashi, Toshimasa Kondo, Yoji Matsuda. (133 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)
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“A great film . . . one of the most visually inventive films I have ever seen.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
(Mononoke Hime). Princess Mononoke combines animist myths, Japanese folklore, a matriarchal heroine, and a “green planet” ethos for an epic cinematic experience. It achieves one of animation’s—and cinema’s—most wonderful effects: to fabricate a world, immaculately realized, that is at once unbelievable and believable. In a long-ago Japan, a war is raging for the future of the earth, one that sets the animal kingdom against humanity, nature against pollution, and harmony against chaos. Two humans stand between the worlds, and amid the bloodshed: San, a feral child raised by wolves, who considers herself animal and humans her enemies; and Ashitaka, a man whose peacefulness hides a great power, and an even greater curse. Inspired by Asian folklore and medieval Japanese legends (as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh), Princess Mononoke may have its roots in tales past, but Miyazaki invests it with a refreshingly modern (and progressive) agenda.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Miyazaki. Voices by Tsunehiko Kamijo, Kaoru Kobayashi, Toshimasa Kondo, Yoji Matsuda. (133 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)
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