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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/
https://www.ghibli.jp/works/mononoke/ [ 1 ]
was movies.disney.com/princess-mononoke (purged)

Servants of the emperor wage war with ancient gods to dominate the land for iron, forcing innocents into the crossfire, but a prince of a lost tribe adventures to save himself and the land from the resulting curse.

Throughout the movie, there are men used as comedic relief and women as brave and smart.

• Trailer

• Japanese: もののけ姫

• Princess Mononoke Revealed: The Real Mythology & History Explained

  • by StoryDive
• https://video.disney.com/watch/calm-your-fury-princess-mononoke-clip-506c0777239600807a24cc1c
• https://video.disney.com/watch/i-m-taking-the-wolf-girl-princess-mononoke-clip-506c077cb87330807a24cc1c

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• 2022-10-17
• Watched afterwards, possibly more than once; no notes were taken

• 2007-01-22

2022-10-17 ∞

• 3:15 — The difference in quality between the background and the foreground is stark.
• 6:45 — She didn’t pour the water slowly..
• 9:00 — Cut his arm off!
• 17:45 — Eww. He touched the thing with his chopsticks and then ate with them.
• 31:45 — What’s that, an entitled woman wants her man to work for her?
• 1:38:00 — Wait, how did Yakul get that harness back?
• 1:46:45 — Some men stayed right underneath Okoto’s snout.

• 2:03:00 — The passage of time was not presented well.

2007-01-22 ∞

• ~ — He leaps a huge distance to the forest, and yet it wasn’t anywhere near that close.
• ~ — He restrings his bow. Did it become unstrung as he leapt into the forest?
• 7:13 — How come we can’t see either of the two arrows which struck it? I guess all the flailing about of the black demon stuff got rid of them?
• 8:07 — But weren’t both eyes poked out? Where the the second arrow hit?
• 10:30 — Who went digging around in it’s body? Everyone was told to stay away from it. So did the old lady go rummaging around in there? Eww.

• 12:25 — The necklace clearly looks like it’s a complete and unbroken loop. Later, we’ll watch him magically untie and re-tie it.

  • Aha.. 1:27:48 — She bites it in two to wear it.

• In the Japanese-voiced version, the wolf mother has a male voice actor.

Footnotes

1. was https://web.archive.org/*/www.ghibli.jp/diary_m/mononoke.html [ ↩ ]