‘Princess Mononoke’ returns to theaters 25 years after its premiere to the delight of fans of Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli.
Twenty-five years after the premiere of the film that would mark a before and after in the career of Hayao Miyazakiand that would ensure the future international tour of the fundamental Studio Ghibli, the brilliant ‘princess mononoke‘ returns to Spanish cinemas with a well-deserved re-release on the big screen.
Vertigo Films has already confirmed the release date from next July 22, and it is that the success of these returns to theaters of fundamental titles, as has already happened with ‘Akira‘ (Katsuhiro Ōtomo, 1988), ‘Millennium Actress‘ (Satoshi Kon, 2001), and ‘Spirited Away‘ (2001) by Miyazaki, not only confirm a very healthy fan base for Japanese animation in Spain, but also ensure the arrival on the billboard of other productions that have marked the history of cinema.
Commonly sold as the last film Miyazaki made without computer assistance, such was the studio’s sickening backlog in creating this magnum opus that it actually ended up using some digital assistance in its three years of making. The nature and the human being, peace and violence collide in a film with an unusual rhythm, some overwhelming backgrounds and a story as subtle as it is spectacular. As much as to be directly considered one of the best films of the 90s.
“While protecting his people from an angry boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka is afflicted with a deadly curse,” the official synopsis reminds us. To find the cure that will save his life, he travels to the sacred depths of the Great Forest realm, where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolves. It is not long before Ashitaka finds himself trapped in In the midst of a battle between the humans exploring the iron ore and the forest dwellers, he must summon spiritual powers and all his courage to prevent man and nature from destroying each other.”
“Life is suffering and difficulties, the world and man are cursed, but even so we insist on living”, reads one of the mythical phrases of the film in which Miyazaki faces his most ecological side, reviving the gods of the forest of Japanese myths and mixing them with one of its most charismatic heroines, the werewolf girl who gives the film its name.
As if its theatrical release was not enough, collectors of animated jewels will have to pay attention to other great news from Vertigo Films, which is launching in physical format unreleased titles in Spain by Studio Ghibli, such as ‘The hill of poppies’ (Goro Miyazaki, 2011)released months ago for the first time); ‘Memories of Yesterday’ (Isao Takahata, 1991), on sale June 29; either ‘I can hear the sea’ (Tomomi Mochizuki, 1993), soon for sale.
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