If you have a chance to see this film, in any language, I recommend you do. ![]() The change in dynamic between the crashing fight scenes and the quiet scenes of healing by the lake is so broad and so well paced that I can't remember a film where my emotional state was so expertly varied. Whisper of the Heart (Mimi wo Sumaseba) (1995) Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime). This is a nature-based Japanese epic of the type that would be difficult to film in any other way than Hayao Miyazakis bigger-than-life animated style. Even with the language barrier, the film is of such intense emotion that it caries you through to the end. My Neighbor Totoro/Tonari No Totoro (1988) English sub/English dub. Leading the forest animals in the battle is a human raised by wolves named Princess Mononoke. Miyazaki's long infatuation with technology verses nature and man's relation to God (or gods) weave throughout the film as does his trend for strong women characters. The story is complex, and after talking with Japanese friends, it is clear that much of it went over my head (particularly that relating to specific Japanese myths), but the important elements came through. ![]() I saw this film in Japan, in Japanese with no sub-titles, I don't speak a word of the language and I was still enthralled! It is Miyazaki most visually intense (surpassing, at long last, Nausicaa) and is alive with color and movement the like not yet seen in anime.
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