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Hayao Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke
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Stateside release of 1997 masterpiece from Japanese animation wizard Hayao Miyazaki ("My Neighbor Totoro") is set in Japan's Muromachio era, when a boar god infects a prince with a seemingly deadly disease. While searching for a cure, the prince gets caught in a battle between miners and the animal gods of the forest, led by Princess Mononoke. Voices are supplied by Billy Crudup, Gillian Anderson, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver and Billy Bob Thornton. 134 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1, English, French; Subtitles: English; "making of" featurette; theatrical trailer. In Japanese with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.
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Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest fantasy director who ever lived. But chances are good you react to his name by saying, "Isn't he that Japanese animation guy with a movie on the Hugo ballot?" Or, maybe, "I heard he won an Oscar for Spirited Away, and he did that other movie, Princess Mononoke." Or even "Never heard of Hayao Miyazaki." Unless you haunt science-fiction convention "anime rooms," you probably don't know this giant of Japanese animation has a career reaching back to 1963. Miyazaki's earlier films received little or no American theatrical distribution, though outside the U.S. the brilliant director/writer is as famous and popular as Walt Disney.
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Hayao Miyazaki (å®®å´ é§¿, Miyazaki Hayao), born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, is a director of Japanese animated films. He is a co-founder of Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki is the creator of many popular anime feature films, as well as manga. Although largely unknown in the West outside of animation circles until Miramax released his film Princess Mononoke in 1999, his films have enjoyed commercial and critical success in Japan and East Asia. Miyazaki's Spirited Away is the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan; Princess Mononoke held the same title for a short period until the release of Titanic later in
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This first of many triumphs for Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki chronicles the penultimate denouement between the last bastions of humanity a thousand years after a nuclear holocaust has gutted the globe. After the death of her father and an attack from the hostile Tormekia, Princess Nausicaa must unite her people against the threat of annihilation. Using her uncanny ability to communicate with the giant crustacean Ohmu, Nausicaa must find a way to avert apocalypse.
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Based on his own manga updating of a Japanese folk tale, animator Hayao Miyazaki's imaginative sci-fi saga is set in a war-ravaged future Earth. When a battle between rival nations threatens to destroy a verdant valley that is home to mutant insects, one young woman--the princess warrior Nausicaa--fights to save it. With the voices of Alison Lohman, Edward James Olmos, Patrick Stewart, and Uma Thurman. AKA: "Warriors of the Wind." 117 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital stereo, Japanese Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English; featurettes; theatrical trailers. In Japanese with English subtitles/Dubbed in English. Two-disc set.
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Hayao Miyazaki is an acclaimed director of Japanese animated films. Miyazaki is the creator and director of numerous Japanese anime feature movies. Albeit a virtual unknown in the United States except the anime circles until his feature film Princess Mononoke was released in Miramax in 1999, most of Miyazaki’s anime films have enjoyed critical as well as commercial successes in his country, East and Southeast Asia. Miyazaki’s feature film, Spirited Away, is the all-time highest-grosser in Japan. His other anime, the Princess Mononoke ... possessed the same title for some time until the movie Titanic’s release in Japan that same year.
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